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Doctor of Nursing Practice in Nursing Science (DrNP)
48.0 quarter credits (minimum)

Curriculum
This cohort program is designed to be completed part-time in three calendar years. The curriculum offers four different career tracks:

• The Practitioner Track: for the student who wants to remain in clinical practice post-graduation.
• The Educator Track: for the student who aspires to a career as a nursing professor, but who also wants a doctorate more grounded in clinical practice.
• The Clinical Scientist Track: for graduates who seek a clinical research career, particularly in clinical trials management or as a stepping stone to a postdoctoral research fellowship.
• The Clinical Executive Track: for graduates who want careers in executive nursing and health care management, but who still prefer a nursing doctorate with a connection to clinical practice.

Degree Requirements
All students select a clinical specialty focus and complete a related clinical and role practicum and a clinically-focused dissertation. The doctoral curriculum is constructed around five core fields:

Nursing Science Core			12.0 Credits
NURS 700	Philosophy of Natural and Social Science: Foundations for Inquiry into the Discipline of Nursing		3.0
NURS 716	The Structure of Scientific Knowledge in Nursing		3.0
NURS 715	Human Responses to Altered Psychologic Function in Health and Illness		3.0
NURS 710	Human Responses to Altered Physiologic Function in Health and Illness		3.0
Nursing Practice Core			12.0 Credits
NURS 703	The Politics of Health: Implications for Nursing Practice		3.0
NURS 836	Clinical and Applied Ethics in Nursing Practice		3.0
NURS 830	Doctoral Nursing Practice Clinical Practicum		3.0
NURS 835	Doctoral Nursing Practice Role Practicum		3.0
Research Methods Core			9.0 Credits
NURS 717	Applied Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics		3.0
NURS 718	Quantitative Methods for Clinical Nursing Inquiry		3.0
NURS 819	Qualitative Methods for Clinical Nursing Inquiry		3.0
Cognate Core			6.0 Credits
	Two approved electives for course of study (must support either the clinical practicum, role practicum, or clinical dissertation)		6.0
Dissertation Core			9.0 Credits
NURS 900	Dissertation Seminar		3.0
NURS 996	Dissertation Advisement I		2.0
NURS 997	Dissertation Advisement II		2.0
NURS 998	Dissertation Advisement III		2.0
	Any student may be assigned additional cognates to properly support the dissertation topic
Note: Residency Requirement
A one-week on-campus intensive residency requirement the first week of the summer quarter each year (for two years) is required. Students must complete both weeks of summer residency. During each year's summer week of residency, a noted clinical nursing scholar will be featured and students will attend workshops on statistical and qualitative software instruction, participate in scholarly presentations, network with fellow student colleagues and faculty, and prepare for completion of the program, dissertation proposal, and dissertation. Students who do not progress normally through the cohort program may be required to attend additional summer intensive residencies until they are eligible to register for the Dissertation Seminar.