MSN to DNP in Organizational Leadership
When you complete our MSN to DNP Organizational Leadership program, you will be prepared to work at the highest level of nursing practice and leadership. Reach your goals and advance your nursing career.
Graduates of our accredited Doctor of Nursing Practice program serve in a variety of clinical, organizational, or educational systems with diverse populations. This MSN to DNP online program provides advanced leadership experiences through clinical opportunities. Combined with scholarly study, nurses can excel towards the highest level of nursing practice. Applications for this program are due July 1 of each year.
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At a Glance
Program Length
Format
- Online with one visit to our main campus in Bismarck, ND at the end of your program.
Tuition per Credit
$630
Is This the Degree For Me?
Who It’s For
- MSNs who want to elevate their career
- MSN-Prepared Nurse Administrators
- MSN-Prepared Nurse Educators
Career Paths
- Educator
- Public Health Program Director
- Health Policy Specialist
- Chief Nursing Executive Officer
- Chief Clinical Officer
- Vice President of Patient Services
What You’ll Learn
The MSN to DNP Organizational Leadership program will prepare you to serve in a variety of clinical, organizational, and/or educational systems. Upon graduating with your nursing doctorate, you’ll be able to demonstrate clinical expertise, evidence-based decision making, leadership, and advanced scholarship in nursing practice. Classes will teach you to:
- Appraise healthcare organizations to assess strengths and weaknesses and facilitate organization-wide improvement in healthcare delivery.
- Be a leader in knowledge translation and application of evidence-based practice.
- Use informatics and patient care technology to improve healthcare outcomes in clinical practice and organizational systems.
- Influence healthcare policy at the local, state, and federal level to champion issues of quality, social justice, equality, and fiscal responsibility.
- Manage cutting-edge innovations and change among interprofessional teams for purposes of advancing healthcare quality among patients, populations, and complex systems.
- Apply Benedictine values to foster spiritual integrity and human dignity to healthcare.
By earning my DNP in Organizational Leadership from the University of Mary, I am able to continue to advance my career as I educate MSN to DNP students and FNP students working on their DNP degrees. This opportunity would not be available to me if I had not completed my degree from the University of Mary.
MSN to DNP Graduate, Class of 2019
Accreditations
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Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
The Doctor of Nursing Practice program at the University of Mary is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
http://www.ccneaccreditation.org
Program Details
- Online
Data Driven Quality Improvement in Health Care (3 credits)
This course provides DNP students with the opportunity to develop and refine leadership decision making skills. Making informed choices within health care organizations requires clinical inquiry and utilization of not only relevant, but also accurate data. Advancing nursing and health care quality through strategy implementation and systems thinking principles that are founded on evidence-based, data driven decisions is the focus of this course.
Interprofessional Collaboration (3 credits)
Build upon current collaboration skills to develop leadership and negotiation expertise in interprofessional teams to drive positive redesign of health care delivery and systems. Tools, theories, and models for navigating through conflict resolution, effective communication, team dynamics, and motivation to achieve optimal health outcomes will be explored.
Organizational Systems Leadership Practicum (2 credits)
Refine critical leadership skills for direct and indirect care through precepted experiences
that allow doctoral students to develop clinical competencies within their specific
emphasis area. Integrate theory and clinical competencies to provide preventative
care, health promotion, health education, health systems leadership, policy, and evidence-based
care to a variety of populations. This course explores leadership competencies including
change management, strategy implementation, emotional and social intelligence, influence,
expertise, conflict management, decision making, team dynamics, and systems thinking.
For a list of courses for the Loading..., please visit the catalog.
To view a sample program of study, click here.
View the student handbook for more information.
Deanna Babb, DNP, APRN, FNP BC, FAANP
Deborah Cave, DNP, RN, CNE
Cynthia Cooke, DNP, FNP-C, FAANP
Joan Doerner, EdD, RN
Rhea Ferry, DNP, APRN, FNP-C
Annie Gerhardt, DNP, APRN, FNP-C
Jenna Herman, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC
Julie Klein, PhD, RN, CNE
Joanne Lassiter, EdD, MSN, RN
Billie Madler, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, FAANP
Cheryl Rising, DNP, FNP
Teresa Rittenbach, PhD, APRN, BC
- Tuition: $630 per credit
- Application fee: $45
- Technology fee: $43 per credit
- Program fees: $45 per credit
- MSN to DNP program fee: $45 per credit
For a full list of fees, visit our Tuition and Fees page.
The following will be needed when you have applied for admission so we can get you accepted into the graduate program:
- Official MSN transcript (if applicable, any other transcripts with evidence of graduate
nursing coursework) from a CCNE or NLNAC accredited program. Master’s degree in nursing
must be from a regionally accredited institution with a minimum cumulative GPA of
3.0.
- Graduated from the University of Mary before? Then we’ll get your Mary transcript for you!
- At most other schools, you can request transcripts by going to the National Student Clearinghouse or by contacting the registrar’s office.
- Have your transcripts sent to:
Office of Admissions
University of Mary
7500 University Drive
Bismarck, ND 58504 - Or request to send electronic transcripts to [email protected]
- Application/enrollment fee - This will be collected at the time you fill out the online application.
- Evidence of current and unencumbered RN licensure
For more information about our admission requirements, please visit this page.