R-EXLD-DNP - Doctor of Nursing Practice (Executive Leadership)

The courses in the Duke Doctor of Nursing Practice Executive Leadership Specialty include:

• Nursing 976 Advanced Decision-Making in Health Care provides the skills required to make strategic and operational decisions; addresses the challenges in designing, implementing and evaluating care delivery systems; and provides data manipulation approaches to determine the best course of action for any challenge faced by a health care leadership team.

• Nursing 977 Planning and Evaluation Care for Populations identifies and dimensionalizes populations of interest in the delivery of health care, provides tools to apply principles of effective collaboration with communities and evaluates models of care designed to maximize priority outcomes, including quality, access and value.

• Nursing 978 Advanced Topics in Leadership prepares students to apply various leadership theories to teams, develops skill in conflict management and negotiation and builds expertise in human resource management within nursing and health care settings.

A sample matriculation plan for the ELS is  available on the School of Nursing website.  This includes the completion of 1000 clinical hours (post BSN) to include at least 400 hours for the DNP project.