• Minimum 30 credits
• Spring, fall, and summer sessions
• 16 week courses
• One required and two optional short on-campus immersions in Spokane, WA
• $870 per credit hour

Program information is subject to change. Contact an Admission Counselor for further questions.

• Fall 2013 Applications – Due August 1st
• Fall 2013 Classes Start – September 3rd
• Spring 2014 Early Action Deadline – November 1st ($50 fee waived)
• Spring 2014 Applications – Due December 15th

Program information is subject to change. Contact an Admission Counselor for further questions.

• Eligible students: This online program is available to registered nurses who have earned a master’s degree in nursing, specifically nurse practitioners and health system leaders/nurse administrators.

• Schedule: DNP courses are offered online in the fall, spring and summer.

• On-Campus Immersions: The program requires one on-campus immersion that must be scheduled prior to enrolling in the first practicum course (NURS 701). The immersion is a 3 day orientation to the program and overview of program requirements. Students receive valuable information related to accessing electronic library resources, creating an electronic portfolio, conducting a scholarly DNP project, and writing for publication. The student has the option of coming to campus a second time for the oral defense of the student’s scholarly project proposal, which occurs during NURS 702, the second practicum course. The proposal defense can also occur electronically via Skype.
  

  NURS 701	Integrative Application of Evidence-Based Practice	*Scheduled prior to enrolling in the first practicum-3 day visit to campus/orientation.
  NURS 702	Application of Evidence-Based Practice ll	**OPTIONAL CAMPUS VISIT DURING 702.

  *The student is required to submit an individualized practicum proposal and objectives for the practicum experience. Prerequisites: NURS 700 and NURS 710, Corequisite: NURS 761

  **Proposal defense can also occur electronically via Skype. Prerequisite: NURS 701 and NURS 761, Corequisite: NURS 762

• Credit & Practicum requirements: The post-master’s DNP requires the completion of a minimum of 30 credit hours. The number of practicum hours that each student must complete is individualized based on the number completed in the student’s MSN program. Each student must meet the required 1,000 practicum hours by program completion, including practicum hours from the student’s MSN program. The student must complete a minimum of 360 practicum hours, but it could be more depending on the number completed in the student’s master’s program.

• Transfer credits: Students may transfer up to 6 credits of comparable graduate level coursework from another doctoral program at the discretion of the nursing faculty.

• Degree completion: Students must complete their degree program within five years of starting GU (all programs). Also, students must achieve a cumulative GPA of 3.0 in order to be eligible to graduate.

Program information is subject to change. Contact an Admission Counselor for further questions.

While you’re crunching numbers and schedules, trying to choose a DNP program that will fit your life and goals, we’d love to share some of our best features with you. Like a proud parent, we’ll try to keep it brief, but its’ hard to hide how proud we are of our program, faculty and students.

• Experience: Our nursing programs have been delivering distance education for more than 30 years. Our faculty is experienced in working with online students and teaching in online platforms.

• Practicing Faculty: Gonzaga nursing faculty walks the talk. All nurse practitioner faculty still actively work in health care and provide students access to current health care policy issues, evolving trends, and real-world challenges facing the industry.

• Jesuit: Gonzaga online nursing students experience the subtle, yet intentional infusion of the Jesuit mission of men and women for others. This humanistic approach creates a community that encourages an exchange of knowledge with and among each other—the faculty, the students, and the communities in which they live and work to impact change.

• Systems thinking: Graduates of Gonzaga’s DNP program are prepared to engage in systems thinking to solve complex problems, translate evidence to improve health care practices and population health, lead quality improvement and change initiatives, and demonstrate effective intraprofessional collaboration.