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Doctor of Nursing Practice Program (DrNP):

Welcome from the Director of Doctoral Nursing Programs
Pictured from left to right: DrNP Paculty: Drs. Linda Wilson, Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow, Louise Ward, Patricia Suplee, Governor Rendell, Kathleen Fisher, Kathleen Falkenstein, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Patricia Gerrity, H. Michael Dreher, Director.

Thanks for coming to the Drexel Doctor of Nursing Practice (DrNP) website to explore our new program. The Drexel DrNP is an innovative, perhaps groundbreaking contribution to nursing doctoral education and our graduates will be able to seek roles in a variety of clinical practice areas, in nursing education, in healthcare leadership, in clinical trials management or as a foundation for a postdoctoral research fellowship. The Drexel DrNP combines much of what a PhD in Nursing might offer, but with a slightly reduced focus on statistics and research methodology, and with more emphasis on clinical nursing practice scholarship. Our clinical research DrNP in Nursing Science is a post-master’s generalist practice doctorate versus a DrNP in Primary Care or a DrNP in Acute Care for example. Comparatively, the Drexel DrNP is more closely aligned to the new Drexel Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree established in our School of Public Health in 2003. Like the DrPH, the DrNP will similarly be a practice-focused, academic doctorate, requiring the completion of a clinical dissertation that will help generate an evidence base for all levels of nursing practice and our discipline.

The faculty of the Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions offer our innovative Doctor of Nursing Practice (DrNP) degree for your consideration and we believe it will offer you more career options than a DNP degree. Our market feasibility study has indicated such. More importantly, you won’t have to forego employment, as our program was designed as a year round part-time program with classes one day a week. As you see in this picture, Governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania attended our recent Celebration Gala of our new DrNP Program. So why don’t you consider joining us? We have a vibrant and enthusiastic nursing faculty who are anxious to work with all types of prospective doctoral students who have a strong desire to pursue a nursing doctorate, but who want a program with a strong clinical focus.

Drexel is indeed a University on the move! As one of America's most technological universities, we have just received approval from the Pennsylvania Department of Education to become the first “first-tier doctoral university” in more than 20 years to open a new College of Law in 2006. So after reviewing our extensive website, if you have any questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks and I wish you well as you consider the best doctoral nursing program for you.

Sincerely,

H. Michael Dreher D.N.Sc., RN
Director of Doctoral Nursing Programs
Drexel University