The Doctor of Nursing Practice

The state's first Doctor of Nursing Practice Program, this program educates advanced nurse clinicians for expert practice in leadership and clinical roles. This doctoral-level education provides nurses the clinical and management expertise to improve health care outcomes, making them expert collaborators in solving health care problems in systems.

The DNP Advantage

Attend full time or part time (and work while you attend school)

Interactive online and classroom experience utilizes WebVISTA
and Internet Protocol connections

Online courses supplement classroom courses and classroom
attendance varies by course.

Capstone/practice project completed in your area of expertise.

Approved by Georgia Board of Regents as an Internet program
with greater than 50 percent of the program taught online.

We are where you are - we offer the DNP program in Augusta,
Athens, Macon, Columbus, Savannah, Albany, Valdosta,
Tennessee and Puerto Rico.

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Deadline: March 1 (Fall)

July 1 (spring)

Marguerite Murphy, DNP, RN

DNP Program Director

Patricia Bowman, DNP

DNP Program Co-Director

Karen Sturgill, MPA

Program Manager

706.721.3676

Email: DNP@mcg.edu

SON faculty member and DNP program graduate Dr. Margo Henderson demonstrates a tachnique during a presentation.

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DNP or PhD - what's right for me? Let's compare.

DNP

PhD

Program Goal:

Improve health outcomes by translating synthesized knowledge into practice.

Program Goal:

Augment the empirical and theoretical base of nursing practice through research.

Focus: practice

Focus: Research

Course Work:

- Clinical practice

- Evidence-based
practice

- Health policy

- Leadership

Course Work

- Philosophy of science

- Theory constructs and
analysis

- Research Methods

- Instrumentation and
measurement

Final Project:

Practice focused project

Final Project:

Original research project

After Graduation:

Clinical practice

Administration

Management

Teaching

After Graduation:

Research

Teaching