Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Toolkit
CU College of Nursing DNP faculty compiled this toolkit to guide current and future students, faculty advisers, and professionals in clinical practice settings working with DNP students. Our intent is to provide an overview of the program and courses, forms and documents, and other resources. We reference the DNP Essentials (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2006), the guiding framework for DNP program curricula, and expectations of all DNP graduates.
DNP Essentials
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2021) The Essentials core: Competencies for professional nursing education.
AACN (2006) The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice.
How to decide: PhD or DNP?
American Nurse: Defining the path to your career destination
Canady, K. (2021) Practical and philosophical considerations for choosing a DNP or PhD in nursing. Journal of Professional Nursing, 37 (1), 163-168
Choosing a Faculty Adviser
Choosing a Clinical Mentor
Project Practicum Hours
Forms
Non-Human Subjects
Rubric
Preparing to Publish
- ICMJE Recommendations
- Nursing Journal Directory
- Kennedy, M. (2018). Journal publishing: A review of the basics. Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 34 (4), 361-371
- Oerman, M., Christenbery, T., & Turner, K. (2018). Writing publishable reviews, QI, research, and EBP manuscripts. Nursing Economics, 36 (6)
Guidelines
Rubrics
Non-Human Subjects
Review and download previous projects:
- Addressing Social Determinants of Health within Military Families: A Quality Improvement Project
- Reducing Hospital Admissions for Patients with Heart Failure by Implementing the Chronic Care Management Framework
- Decreasing 30-Day Unplanned Readmissions After Thoracic Surgery with Non-Invasive Remote Monitoring
- Remote Patient Monitoring to Reduce 30-day Readmissions in the Post Discharge Care of Children with Medical Complexities: a Quality Improvement Project
- Implementation of a new cardiology hospital service leveraging nurse practitioners to improve patient access and outcomes
- Secondary Prevention of Bone Disease in Men on Androgen Deprivation Therapy with Prostate Cancer
- Implementing a Urine Culture Call Back Follow-up in Pediatric ED
- MI and Smoking Cessation in Veterans with PTSD
- Improving Access to Preventative Health in a Small College
- Reducing Obesity Among Employees of a Manufacturing Plant
- Transition from Pediatric to Adult Specialty Care for Adolescents with Refractory Epilepsy
- Decreasing Psych Admission Wait Time in ED
- Decreasing CAUTI Urologic Oncology Patients
- Tobacco Cessation Program for Veteran's PTSD
- JAH: Improving Adolescent and Young Adult Engagement in the Process of Transitioning to Adult Care
Resources
- Open Canvas Virtual Center for Nursing Research
- Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
- The Writing Center
- AACN DNP Toolkit
- Data – how to sample, use EXCEL for analysis, and interpret data