Doctor of Nursing Practice Programs

Antioch University’s Department of Nursing is committed to quality nursing education that uses a holistic caring framework to promote excellence and safe healthcare. We encourage the personal and professional development of faculty, staff, and students, as well as an appreciation for diverse perspectives and humane values. Our goal is to prepare lifelong learners committed to the profession and the community, and to meeting society’s changing healthcare needs.

• Lifelong learning
• Holistic care 
• Diversity, inclusion, access
• Purposeful clinical experiences
• Integrity

1. Develop competent nursing professionals who can integrate and synthesize knowledge from relevant fields of study to provide safe, high-quality, patient-centered care to diverse individuals, families, groups, and populations.
2. Prepare graduate nurses and healthcare professionals for intentional collaboration with other health professionals and healthcare stakeholders to promote optimal, equitable health outcomes that foster social justice in the health promotion and disease management for marginalized populations.
3. Equip graduate nurses and healthcare professionals to lead in complex health systems, creating interprofessional partnerships while reflecting on self-bias to pursue personal and professional development while advocating for all humanity.
4. Cultivate ethical health professionals that use a variety of informatic technologies to generate, analyze, and synthesize knowledge to improve health and transform healthcare.

1. Integrate nursing science with knowledge from the natural and social sciences as a basis for the highest level of nursing practice for diverse populations. (E1)
2. Provide organizational and systems leadership in advanced nursing practice roles to improve marginalized patient and healthcare outcomes, through advocacy and implementation of management and quality improvement strategies. (E5)
3. Provide leadership for evidence-based practice, through translation of research for practice, dissemination of research findings, application of research findings for all populations, implementation of quality improvement methodologies, evaluation of practice outcomes, and participation in collaborative research. (E4)
4. Demonstrate proficiency in the utilization and evaluation of information systems/technology resources for knowledge application, management of individual and aggregate data, and quality improvement for all marginalized populations. (E8)
5. Provide leadership in the analysis, development, implementation, and evaluation of healthcare policies, congruent with advocacy for social justice, equity, and ethics in global healthcare. (E7, E10)
6. Employ effective communication, collaboration, and leadership skills with individuals, groups, and teams to facilitate problem solving and team functioning for equitable healthcare and healthcare delivery to marginalized populations. (E6)
7. Analyze epidemiological, bio-statistical, environmental, and other appropriate diverse data for developing, implementing, and evaluating clinical prevention and population health interventions. (E2, E3)
8. Demonstrate advanced levels of clinical judgment in designing, implementing, and evaluating equitable therapeutic interventions to improve patient and/or healthcare outcomes. (E2)
9. Implement meaningful change in the areas of legal, ethical, economic, and professional functions of advanced nursing practice roles while advocating for all humanity. (E9, E10)
10. Integrate caring behaviors and patterns, including cultural competence and attention to underserved regional and global individuals and groups, into advanced nursing practice roles. (E3)