Doctor of Nursing Practice

Contact: Susan Bradford, 330-972-7555 or sb14@uakron.edu

Now accepting applications for summer 2025

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We are now accepting applications for 2024 Teaching Assistants: 

• Akron Campus - Health Assessment and Nursing Foundations I and II
• Akron Campus - Pathophysiology and Complex & Critical Situations
• Wayne Campus - All nursing courses 

    Upcoming DNP Weekend Intensive Dates

 DNP Spring  Schedule 2025 

January 18th  2025 

NURS 706 Clinical Nurse Scholar II (in person)

NURSE 848 Program Evaluation in Nursing ( online synchronous)

January 19th 2025

NURS 710 Advanced Healthcare statistics (online synchronous)

NURS 709 DNP Project II ( online asynchronous)

NURS 707 Clinical Scholar Residency (online asynchronous)

March 8th 2025

NURS 710 Advanced Healthcare statistics (online synchronous)

NURS 709 DNP Project II ( online asynchronous)

NURS 707 Clinical Scholar Residency (online asynchronous)

March 9th 2025

NURS 706 Clinical Nurse Scholar II (in person)

NURSE 848 Program Evaluation in Nursing ( online synchronous)

Summer Schedule 2025

June 14th 2025 

NURS: 712 Fiscal Management in Healthcare (online synchronous)2024

June 15th 2025

NURS: 715 Fundamentals of Public Heath Epidemiology ( online synchronous)

NURS: 714 Synthesis and Application of Evidence for Advanced Practice Nurses ( in person) 

July 19th 2025

NURS 715 Fundamentals of Public Heath Epidemiology ( online synchronous)

NURS: 714 Synthesis and Application of Evidence for Advanced Practice Nurses ( in person) 

July 20th 2025

NURS: 712 Fiscal Management in Healthcare (online synchronous)

Fall  Schedule 2025

August 23rd 2025

NURS: 705 Clinical Nurse Scholar I  (online synchronous)

August 24th 2025

NURS: 700 Information Management in Health Care ( online synchronous)

NURS: 713 Advanced Leadership in Healthcare ( in person)

NURS: 708 DNP Project I ( online asynchronous)

October 18th 2025

NURS: 705 Clinical Nurse Scholar I (in person)

NURS: 713 Advanced Leadership in Healthcare (in person)

NURS: 708 DNP Project I ( online asynchronous)

October 19th 2025

NURS: 700 Information Management in Healthcare  ( online synchronous)

This post-master’s program is available to:

• Nurses with a master’s degree in nursing with an advanced practice focus from an accredited university. Admission criteria are available in The University of Akron Graduate Bulletin https://bulletin.uakron.edu/graduate/

This hybrid program is a blend of intensive face to face, intensive synchronous, and/or asynchronous learning modalities that are determined based on the course/content/semester. Students can complete the program in two years of study.

The University of Akron has a long tradition of being home to one of Ohio’s top ranked programs of nursing. One of the particular strengths of our DNP program is that  the courses at The University of Akron are taught by a complimentary blend of DNP and PhD prepared faculty, thus offering the student exposure to the best of both clinical/professional and academic/research scholarship. 

See the DNP program handbook for the curriculum and other information.

DNP Project Committee Designation and Approvals Form

Program Outcomes

• Use appropriate theories and concepts to identify health-related phenomena of interest
• Design and deliver interventions that can withstand scientific analysis
• Evaluate health care delivery and nursing practices using sound evaluation principles
• Use evaluation and other methods to account for quality of care and patient safety for focus populations
• Critically appraise and/or use sources informing best evidence, i.e. epidemiology, statistics, health data, and/or methodologies
• Deliver and evaluate care processes and outcomes based on best evidence
• Analyze and define critical choices among health care technologies and information systems toward the betterment of care processes and outcomes
• Understand the dynamics of health care policy and financing at the organizational and national levels
• Provide or assist in the leadership of collaborative, inter-professional teams in health care delivery

Doctor of Nursing Practice

Mary Gladwin Hall
209 Carroll Street
Akron, Ohio 44325-3701

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