Doctor of Nursing Practice

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

Now accepting applications for summer 2023

    Upcoming DNP Weekend Intensive Dates

March 4th 2023

Clinical Scholar II  - Post BSN to DNP, Nurse Anesthesia

Program Evaluation - Post MSN to DNP

March 5th 2023

Advanced Healthcare Statistics - Post BSN to DNP, Nurse Anesthesia

DNP Project I - Post MSN to DNP

Summer 2023

June 10th 2023

714 Synthesis and Application of Evidence ( in person)

712 Fiscal Management in Healthcare ( online synchronous)

June 11th 2023

715 Fundamentals of Public Health Epidemiology ( online synchronous) 

July 15th 2023

715 Fundamentals of Public Health Epidemiology ( online synchronous) 

July 16th 2023

712 Fiscal Management in Healthcare ( online synchronous)

714 Synthesis and Application of Evidence ( in person)

Fall 2023

August 26th 2023

705 Clinical Scholar I (in person)

708 DNP Project I (online asynchronous)

August 27th 2023

713 Advanced Leadership in Healthcare ( in person)

700 Information Management in Healthcare (online synchronous)

October 21 2023

705 Clinical Scholar I ( in person)

708 DNP Project I (online asynchronous)

October 22nd 2023 

713 Advanced Leadership in Healthcare (in person)

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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