Doctor of Nursing Practice

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

Now accepting applications for summer 2024

    Upcoming DNP Weekend Intensive Dates

Fall 2023

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)

Spring 2024

January 20th 2024 

Clinical Scholar II ( In person) 

Program Evaluation ( online  synchronous)

January 21st 2024

Statistics ( online synchronous)

DNP Project I ( online asynchronous) 

Clinical Scholar Residency (online asynchronous)

March 9th 2024

 Statistics ( online synchronous)

DNP Project I ( online asynchronous)

Clinical Scholar Residency ( online asynchronous)

March 10th 2024

Clinical Scholar II ( in person)

Program Evaluation ( 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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