Program overview
The DNP program at the University of Minnesota is innovative, interprofessional, and focuses on outcome-based health care. It prepares nurses to create and lead new models of care delivery for communities locally, across the nation, and around the world.

You’ll work with faculty who are leaders in their fields and on the cutting edge of nursing research and practice. These experts will become your mentors and guide you through the program.

The unique, interdisciplinary core curriculum is divided into four areas:

1. DNP Core. Includes science of nursing intervention, moral and ethical positions, research, statistics, program evaluation, evidence-based practice, epidemiology, informatics, leadership, health economics, health policy, and teaching and learning
2. DNP Specialty Core. Prepares students for advanced clinical practice. Includes physiology, pharmacology, pharmacotherapeutics, and advanced health assessment
3. DNP Specialization. Prepares graduates for certification in their chosen specialty by a national certifying body and includes:

• Advanced clinical practice with specialty-specific courses for each of the areas of clinical specialization.
• Other specialty coursework in public health, organizational leadership, informatics, and integrative health and healing

4. Scholarly Leadership Project. Completed by all students in a three-semester sequence during which the project is planned, implemented, evaluated, and presented.
   

Choose from 14 specialty areas

• Adult Health/Gerontological Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Adult/Gerontological Nurse Practitioner
• Adult/Women's Healthcare Nurse Practitioner
• Family Nurse Practitioner
• Informatics
• Integrative Health and Healing
• Nurse Anesthesia  
• Nursing and Healthcare Systems Administration
• Nurse Midwifery
• Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
• Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Public Health Nursing
• Public Health Nursing/Adolescent Health