Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Welcome to Texas Woman’s University Doctor of Nursing Practice program located at the TWU Dallas Institute of Health Sciences!
The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) provides the opportunity for Advanced Practice Nurses (Nurse Practitioners and Certified Nurse Midwives) to implement the highest levels of evidence-based clinical nursing practice, patient advocacy, and interdisciplinary health-care leadership. DNP graduates will be prepared to assume leadership positions in advanced-practice nursing, which include not only expert clinical practice, but appropriate integration of technology and informatics into care and assessment of outcomes of care.
The setting for implementing the DNP is strategically located in the heart of the Dallas health-care community adjacent to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and several large private and community hospitals. Parkland Health and Hospital System ranks as one of U.S. News & World Report's best hospitals and served 39,907 in-patients in 2005, with almost 16,000 births, and over one million out-patient visits. Children’s Medical Center, Zale-Lipshy University Hospital, and St. Paul University Hospital are also part of this complex.
TWU College of Nursing has a strong history of doctoral education with the PhD in Nursing Science, the largest nursing doctorate in the nation and the first nursing doctorate in the southwestern United States. Dallas and Denton nursing faculty members have the educational credentials and clinical experience to enhance the DNP student’s experience. The Dallas faculty is unique in that all PhD-prepared Advanced Nurse Practitioners engage in current clinical practice. The DNP Advisory Panel, composed of practicing Advanced Practice Nurses, Chief Nursing Officers, informatics experts, health care policy authorities, and other professionals from DFW urban and rural health care organizations, guides implementation of the DNP program.
For more information, visit the the TWU College of Nursing Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Web site or contact Peggy at pmancuso@twu.edu.
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