DNP Curriculum
Clinical Practice Hours and Course Schedules for the DNP program at DeSales.
Clinical Practice Hours
Clinical Leadership Track: to achieve the terminal DNP competencies, a total of 1,000 post-baccalaureate clinical practice hours are required. DeSales requires a minimum of 500 clinical practicum hours obtained during a master of science in nursing program as part of the admission criteria.
Executive Leadership Track: upon acceptance, the Director of the DNP Program will perform a gap analysis of all post-Master’s applicant transcripts to determine the amount of hours of practice post-baccalaureate is required in order to achieve the DNP competencies. The program will provide up to 1,000 hours of practice post-baccalaureate as part of a supervised academic program that aligns with the corresponding DNP Essential(s) and to verify that standards specific to advanced practice have been met.
All DeSales DNP students will complete 525 hours as part of the Scholarship Residency, Leadership Residency, and DNP Capstone courses.
For more details about courses, view the Graduate Catalog
Year 1
Fall
- NU 800: Leadership for Practice (3 cr.)
- NU 802: Evidence-Based Practice I (3 cr.)
Winter
- NU 804: Health Outcomes Management (3 cr.)
- NU 807: Applied Epidemiology and Biostatistics (3 cr.)
Spring
- NU 808: Health Policy and Ethics (3 cr.)
- NU 810: Translational Research (4 cr.)
Summer
- NU 812: Health Care Informatics (3 cr.)
Year 2
Fall
- NU 814: Evidence-Based Practice II (3 cr.)
- NU 816 Scholarship Residency (3 cr./ 225 residency hours)
Winter
- NU 818: Leadership Residency (4 cr./225 residency hours)
Spring
- NU 820: DNP Scholarly Project and Defense (3 cr./75 residency hours)
- DNP Requirements Completed
* Grades earned in these courses will not be computed in the graduate GPA
** Requirements based on gap analysis completed by DNP Director