Elevate Your Clinical Practice & Lead Healthcare Innovation
Brenau University’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) – Advanced Practice Nurse is tailored for students with a Master of Science in Nursing committed to advancing their leadership roles, transforming patient care, improving healthcare systems, and advancing nursing practice. This 7-semester, hybrid program blends online coursework, faculty mentorship, and a practice-based scholarly project to prepare graduates for expert-level clinical practice and leadership roles. This degree does not prepare students to sit for advanced practice certification exams.
Interested in pursuing a nurse practitioner certification along with your program?
Add one of the following in as few as two semesters:
- Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP)
- 2 semesters with an NP certification, 4 semesters without
- Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)
- 4 semesters
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)
- 4 semesters
Program Overview
- Design and execute a DNP project grounded in evidence-based practice that addresses a real-world clinical or system-level problem, evaluates outcomes, and generates practice recommendations
- Develop your capstone project with one-on-one faculty mentorship over a four-course sequence focusing on identification, development, implementation, and outcomes evaluation and dissemination
- Receive personalized advisement from experienced nurse leaders and academic scholars to support project planning, implementation, and dissemination
What You’ll Learn
- Deliver expert-level, evidence-based advanced practice and leadership systems-level reasoning, planning, and decision-making in complex and evolving patient care environments.
- Implement population health and genomics-informed interventions to assess risk, anticipate health priorities, and customize healthcare processes for health systems, individuals and communities.
- Leverage health informatics and telehealth tools and apply digital health strategies, data analytics, and information systems to enhance chronic disease monitoring, patient safety, care coordination, and health promotion.
- Function as expert clinician-leader who engages effectively with CEOs, physicians, public health professionals, pharmacists, and other stakeholders to optimize care delivery and transitions.
- Execute a scholarly DNP capstone that translates research into practice, demonstrates measurable improvements in outcomes, and provides actionable recommendations for broader adoption.
- Semester 1
- NG 901— Bioethics in Advanced Practice Nursing 3
- HS 901— Biostatistics 3
- Semester 2
- HS 902— Epidemiology 3
- NG 903—Health Care Financing and Economics 3
- Semester 3
- NG 906—Project Identification 3
- NG 907— Health Care Systems, Policy and Law 3
- Semester 4
- NG 905— Methods for Evidence-Based Practice 3
- NG 908— Project Development 3
- Semester 5
- NG 904— Strategic Management and Leadership 3
- NG 909— Informatics for Health Care 3
- Semester 6
- 902—Genomics and Population Health 3
- NG 910A—Project Implementation 3
- Semester 7
- NG 911—Project outcomes evaluation and Dissemination 4
Admission Requirements
- 3.0 minimum GPA on all college transcripts
- Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) from an accredited university (master’s degrees in other disciplines are considered on a case-by-case basis.
- Evidence of a statistics course
- One year experience as an advanced practice nurse in a direct care or leadership/management role
- Current nursing license in the state of practice
- Interview upon request