Doctor of Nursing Practice Online
Graduating from our doctor of nursing program means gaining the highest level of education in the field, as well as ethical, moral and legal foundations to become a leader who can truly make a difference.
Apply By
2/17/25
Start Class
3/3/25
Key Dates
Apply By 2/17/25
Start Class 3/3/25
Program Overview
Discover the advantages of the online Doctor of Nursing Practice
Elevate your nursing career with the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor's online Doctor of Nursing Practice program. Develop as a leader while gaining expertise in evidence-based healthcare and translating research into practice to improve patient outcomes. Explore business, finance and healthcare policy, and prepare to lead in a global context. Our faith-based, 100 percent online curriculum covers vital areas like information technology, statistical analysis, implementation science and quality improvement, equipping you to tackle complex challenges in healthcare.
With 600 built-in clinical hours and up to 1,000 clinical hours tailored to your goals and a customizable scholarly project, you’ll gain hands-on experience and create real-world solutions. One-on-one faculty mentorship ensures you’re supported throughout your journey. Whether advancing in patient care, executive leadership or healthcare policy, our DNP prepares you to excel as demand for doctorally prepared nurse leaders grows.
This online DNP program will prepare you for leadership roles in nursing, such as:
- Chief Nursing Officer
- Clinical Leader
- Director of Nursing
- Quality and Patient Safety Leader
- Chief Nursing Officer
- Clinical Leader
- Director of Nursing
- Quality and Patient Safety Leader
Upon completion of this DNP online program, you will be prepared to:
- Utilize system thinking in leadership roles, with interprofessional collaboration, to design solutions for disparities within complex healthcare systems
- Construct new evidence-based frameworks using data within complex healthcare systems to improve healthcare outcomes
- Value lifelong learning and professional scholarship
- Serve in leadership roles in professional and community organizations and activities
- Justify faith-informed discernment and moral courage in ethical decision-making
- Complete the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) competencies outlined by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials
- Utilize system thinking in leadership roles, with interprofessional collaboration, to design solutions for disparities within complex healthcare systems
- Construct new evidence-based frameworks using data within complex healthcare systems to improve healthcare outcomes
- Value lifelong learning and professional scholarship
- Serve in leadership roles in professional and community organizations and activities
- Justify faith-informed discernment and moral courage in ethical decision-making
- Complete the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) competencies outlined by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials
Also available:
The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor offers a variety of specialized degrees that can help you advance with purpose. Learn about our other healthcare programs.
Total Tuition
$47,385*
Program Duration
As few as 20 months
Credit Hours
39
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Tuition
Get the details on our pay-as-you-go tuition
Tuition for the Doctor of Nursing Practice online program is paid by the course, so you can manage costs as you advance.
| Program | Per Credit Hour | Per Course | Per Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| DNP | $1,215 | $3,645 | $47,385 |
*Tuition includes all standard fees and is subject to change without notice. UMHB reserves the right to increase tuition and fees at any time.
Tuition Breakdown
Per Credit Hour
$1,215
Total Tuition
$47,385*
Calendar
Review important start dates and deadlines
Our online DNP degree program is delivered in a flexible format, giving you the freedom to keep providing for yourself, your family and your community. Choose the start date that best suits your schedule.
| Term | Start Date | App Deadline | Document Deadline | Tuition Deadline | Term Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2 | 3/3/25 | 2/17/25 | 2/24/25 | 3/4/25 | 7 weeks |
| Summer 1 | 5/12/25 | 4/28/25 | 5/5/25 | 5/13/25 | 7 weeks |
| Summer 2 | 6/30/25 | 6/16/25 | 6/23/25 | 7/1/25 | 7 weeks |
Now Enrolling
Next Apply Date
2/17/25
Next Class Start Date
3/3/25
Admissions
Your guideline for admission to the DNP online program
For admission into the Doctor of Nursing Practice online program, you must meet the requirements below.
Admission Requirements
- Active, unencumbered RN license
- Official transcripts
- 3.0 GPA
- No GRE required
Review our streamlined admission process for the DNP program. To be considered for admission, you must meet the following requirements:
- Prior Degrees:
- A bachelor’s degree in nursing is not required, unless the graduate degree is not an MSN
- A graduate degree in nursing is strongly preferred—for students without a graduate degree in nursing, a BSN is required
- Official transcripts from all institutions previously attended
- A 3.0 GPA in graduate degree
- Active, unencumbered RN license in the state where you reside and where you will complete site-based experience
- Three references
- Statement of purpose answering the question: “What plans do you have in mind for your scholarly endeavor?”
After a holistic review of the application and required documentation, an interview with the Program Director and/or additional information may be requested.
Official transcripts from all colleges/universities attended should be mailed directly from the institution(s) to UMHB at this address:
Admissions Office
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
900 College Street
UMHB Box 8402
Belton, TX 76513
Official transcripts sent directly from issuing institution(s) are also accepted electronically. Please email them to:
Or fax: 866-806-3813
Have a question? Call us at 833-690-1231.
Admission Requirements
- Active, unencumbered RN license
- Official transcripts
- 3.0 GPA
- No GRE required
Courses
Preview your DNP online courses
The online Doctor of Nursing Practice curriculum is comprised of 17 courses for a total of 39 credit hours.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This course focuses on determinants of health and principles of epidemiologic data to design and deliver evidence-based, culturally relevant clinical prevention interventions and strategies. Health promotion strategies are presented for improving population-based health outcomes for individuals, families, communities and aggregate/clinical populations. 2.5 (1.5) Prerequisite: NURS 6321.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
The course focuses on development of components of the DNP Scholarship Portfolio. The DNP Practice Inquiry Project will require that the student develop a practice focused problem that will include application of an intervention for the problem with the appropriate metric evaluation and dissemination of the project findings. The Practice Inquiry Project will be presented for approval in this course. This course will assist the student in the refinement of the plan, methodology, and implementation of the Practice Inquiry Project.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the issues in healthcare information technology. Students will develop the skills necessary to evaluate health care information systems regarding monitoring of outcomes, patient safety, and quality improvement. Ethical and legal issues related to Information Technology will be addressed.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This course will explore and analyze the dynamics of health care policy and the influence these policies have on the delivery of health care. Students will develop skills necessary to become leaders in developing and implementing institutional, local, state, federal and/or international health policies. Students will acquire the knowledge necessary to educate policy makers at all levels regarding nursing, health policy and patient care outcomes. Ethics related to health care policies will be explored. This course will provide students with the opportunity to exercise these skills at the national international level.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This course is designed to build the foundation for Evidence Based health care. Students will use analytical methods to critically evaluate literature to determine and implement evidence based care and develop practice guidelines. Students will develop skills necessary to design, direct and evaluate quality improvement methodologies to promote safe, effective, efficient, and equitable healthcare. Key aspects of how to disseminate and integrate research into both organization and clinical practice will be included.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This course prepares the student to be a leader in the global health care arena. This course provides a comprehensive overview of the principles of business, finance, economics and health policy needed to be effective leaders. This course will present the skills necessary to evaluate the costs, risk, and value of health care. Students will examine the political and economic environment of the health care systems at the national level.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This course focuses on organizational and systems leadership within complex, global health care systems. Innovative leadership skills and quality improvement strategies will be explored. Students will acquire the use of advance communications skills needed to lead quality improvement and patient safety initiatives within health care systems. Students will evaluate health care delivery approaches needed to meet the current and future needs of diverse populations of patients. Additionally, students will develop strategies to manage ethical dilemmas related to patient care, heath care organizations and research.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This course will extend Evidence Based Practice principles and enhance the student’s ability to translate research into practice. Students will refine the skills necessary to disseminate research findings in order to develop evidence based practice guidelines that will improve healthcare outcomes. Students will integrate research knowledge to evaluate practice, practice settings, and health care organizations against national benchmarks to determine variances in practice outcomes and population trends.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This course serves as the foundational course for the DNP and will explore the qualities necessary to be a leader and clinical scholar in a complex health care system. This course will study the scientific underpinnings of nursing knowledge significant to develop the role of the DNP. Students will evaluate and develops new practice approaches based not only on nursing theories but theories from other disciplines
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This course focuses on the use of biostatistical data to critically analyze data and evidence for improving advanced nursing practice.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This course serves as the clinical practice component of the DNP program and focuses on the direct care of patients within a population of interest. The course provides the student with a clinical specialty immersion experience necessary to plan and design the Practice Inquiry Project. The student is expected to utilize advanced levels of clinical judgement, systems thinking, and accountability in designing, delivering, and evaluating evidence-based care to improve patient outcomes. Students use conceptual and analytical skills in evaluating the links among practice, organizational, population, fiscal and policy issues in the health care arena.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This course will provide the students with the opportunity to interact with faculty and community/organizational leaders related to their DNP Project Inquiry. Students will demonstrate their breadth and synthesis of knowledge of the DNP Essentials as it related to their project.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This is the second of the Advanced Seminar courses that will provide the students with the opportunity to interact with faculty and community/organizational leaders related to their DNP Project Inquiry. Students will demonstrate their breadth and synthesis of knowledge of the DNP Essentials as it related to their project.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
The course focuses on continued development of components of the DNP Practice Inquiry Project. This course will assist the student in the refinement of the plan, methodology, and implementation of the DNP Practice Inquiry Project.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This course will analyze Interprofessional collaboration as a fundamental component of the DNP practice. This course focuses on Interprofessional methodologies to address emerging health care issues and analyze methods to lead change in a complex Interprofessional healthcare delivery systems. Students will be given the opportunity to explore these issues at the state level.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
The course focuses on continued development of components of the DNP Practice Inquiry Project. This course will assist the student in the refinement of the plan, methodology, and implementation of the DNP Practice Inquiry Project.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This course focuses on advanced clinical management of patients and diverse populations with complex health care needs. This course will introduce principles and concepts of epidemiology and the impact on individual, aggregate, and population health. Students will also explore the relationship and contribution of genetics and genomics to healthcare issues, including disease susceptibility and therapeutic efficacy. The role of genomics in personalized medicine will be explored. Students will synthesize concepts, including psychosocial dimensions and cultural diversity, related to clinical prevention and population health and will develop, implement, and evaluate interventions to improve health status, access to care and gaps in the care of individuals, aggregates or populations. This course is designed to assist student in developing high level clinical reasoning in order to provide positive patient outcomes within a framework of evidence-based practice.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
The course focuses on continued development of components of the DNP Practice Inquiry Project. This course will assist the student in the refinement of the plan, methodology, and implementation of the DNP Practice Inquiry Project.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This is the third of the Advanced Seminar courses that will provide the students with the opportunity to interact with faculty and community/organizational leaders related to their DNP Project Inquiry. Students will demonstrate their breadth and synthesis of knowledge of the DNP Essentials as it related to their project.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
This course serves as the clinical practice component of the DNP program and focuses on the direct care of patients within a population of interest. The course provides the student with a clinical specialty immersion experience necessary to plan and design the Practice Inquiry Project. The student is expected to utilize advanced levels of clinical judgement, systems thinking, and accountability in designing, delivering, and evaluating evidence-based care to improve patient outcomes. Students use conceptual and analytical skills in evaluating the links among practice, organizational, population, fiscal and policy issues in the health care arena.