Roles of DNP
Provide direct clinical care
Clinical Nurse Leader
Clinical Nurse Specialist
What is the role of the DNP as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN)?
his paper, developed by the American Association of College of Nurses, was written to address the “foundational competencies that are core to all advanced practice nursing roles” (AACN, 2006, p.8). This paper further addresses the required curricular elements of all practice-focused doctoral programs and has created a list of competencies that are necessary in order to confer the degree of Doctor of Nursing Practice. The competencies discussed in this paper are to ensure that all graduates of these DNP programs are capable of practicing as advanced practiced registered nurses, and to form a standardized curriculum model for all DNP programs (AACN, 2006, p.8).
What is the Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice?
Leadership, role models (mentoring), interdisciplinary partners, problem solvers
(Malloch, 2017)
What are the roles that a DNP can participate in?
The percentage of DNP-APRNs who feel they have met scientific underpinnings for practice, competency 2 “critically analyze data for practice by integrating knowledge from evidence-based guidelines with the context of APRN practice.
What is 81.4%?
1924 by Teachers College, Columbia. This degree was an EdD that focused on preparing nurses to teach at the college level.
The DNP degree was first offered in what year?
Prepares the nursing workforce to provide quality care to and meet the needs of an aging and diverse population.
Work in academic and clinical settings
Develop unique learning opportunities for students that integrate research and theory with clinical experience.
What is the role of the DNP as a Nurse Educator/Faculty?
This essential competency describes the scientific evaluation for nursing practice. This Essential requires that all advanced practice nurses have a basic knowledge of sciences including biology, physiology. Psychology, ethics and nursing. According to this Essential, the fundamental basis of these sciences is to help build a better knowledge base for how to translate these basics into best care for the patient (Butts & Rich, 2018, p. 62).
What is Essential 1: Scientific Underpinnings for Practice?
Needed as a benefit for patient populations and complexities of disease processes
(Christiansen, 2018)
What are the AACN & IOM's recommendations on the benefits of DNP?
Term for DNP graduates/leaders who have marketed a service in healthcare.
What are called “marketprenuers?"
The PhD in Nursing. It was not until the 1950s that another doctorate in nursing was offered by the University of Pittsburgh.
In 1934, what degree was offered by New York University?
Serve as Administrators, Supervisors, Nurse Managers, and Directors
Contribute to the growth and success of an organization by serving on committees and boards.
Heading up initiatives including quality improvement, project management, and High level problem-solving.
What is the role of the DNP as a Leader?
This Essential describes the necessary preparation and requirements of DNP graduates in order to meet these expectations to prepare the DNP graduate with an expertise in “assessing organizations, identifying systems’ issues, and facilitating organization-wide changes in practice delivery” in order to help improve patient outcomes and health disparities.
What is Essential 11: Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Improvement and Systems Thinking?
Improve care, quality, cost
(Terhaar, Taylor, & Sylvia, 2016)
What are some contributions a DNP can offer?
The percentage of practicing DNP’s that feel they utilized essential VI, competency 29 (facilitate the delivery of culturally relevant care).
What is 92%?
Development of nursing theory for a practice discipline.
The DNS degree offered by Boston Univeristy in 1960 focused on what areas?
Helps the organization transform itself by focusing on organizational effectiveness, improvement, and development.
ii. Focuses on people and/or teams within the organization and their interactions.
What is the role of the DNP as a Change Agent?
In response to the Institute of Medicine (IOM)’s mandate for” safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient centered care in a complex environment” (AACN, 2006, p.14), this Essential was created to ensure that all graduates of the DNP program are prepared to collaborate, consult and lead with other professionals in a healthcare team.
What is Essential V1: Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health Outcomes?
Nursing theory, scientific principles
(Sherrod & Goda, 2016)
What are some scientific underpinnings for DNP practice?
The percent of DNP’s who feel they demonstrate a leadership style that uses critical and reflective thinking, which is competency 8 of Essential II.
What is 88.5%?
The historical focus of the practice doctorate has been this
What is competent, independent and accountable nursing practice?
Guides practice in various healthcare settings to meet meaningful use criteria and contribute to the delivery of safer patient care.
Project management
Reports data within the organization
What is the role of the DNP as an Informaticist?
Knowing that no nurse can be an expert in every field, This Essential competency states that the DNP graduate should be able to apply the culminative knowledge and skills obtained in the other seven Essentials, in order to effectively translate that knowledge into the ability to practice at the highest skillset for his or her specialty.
What is Essential V111: Advanced Nursing Practice?
Practicing at top potential, responding to lacking health care, preparing the next generation of nursing
(Lucci, 2019)
What are the overall benefits to having a DNP?
What percentage of DNP-APRN’s felt they met competency 10 which is using best available evidence to enhance quality in clinical practice ( this is part of Essential 3, clinical scholarship and analytical methods for evidence-based practice).
What is 92%?
Doctoral education in nursing developed in what 3 phases?
What is the development of functional specialists, nurse scientists and doctorates both in and out of nursing?