Get Started With the D.N.P.
Info Sessions
Learn more about the DNP program, clinical track options and what to expect from the program. Attend an upcoming informational webinar to get your questions answered.
View upcoming eventsAdmissions
Applications open July 1 each year for the following fall start. Apply by the first Friday in October for priority review. Rolling admissions are available after the priority deadline on a space-available basis.
Advising and Registration
Find information about advising and registration after you're admitted to the DNP program, including your assigned faculty adviser, Degree Works and course registration.
Have Questions about the DNP?
The DNP is a rigorous, full-time program with on-campus intensives and clinical experiences that may require travel or temporary relocation. Explore the FAQs to learn more about the program format, clinical placements, time commitment and other important details.
Learning Outcomes and Core Concepts
The DNP program prepares advanced practice nursing leaders to serve rural communities through evidence-based practice, leadership and a comprehensive approach to health care.
Evidence-Based Practice
- Engage in evidence-based practice to optimize health outcomes.
Leadership
- Engage in leadership activities to promote excellence in rural health care.
Transformation
- Transformation includes learning, education, leadership, and nursing as a whole; engaging creativity with theory and evidence-based practice to result in critical reflection and cognitive flexibility.
Rurality/Frontier
- Practice in a low population area where resources and/or access to care are limited and be able to innovate accordingly.
Service
- Providing advanced practice nursing care and services to individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations includes altruism, leadership, decision-making, cooperation, education, listening, problem-solving, person-centered care, fidelity, advocacy, ethical behavior, and practice.
Comprehensive Global Healthcare System Perspective
- An interconnected and comprehensive global health care system perspective incorporating the following attributes: advocacy, altruism, creativity, ethical conduct, effective communication skills, leadership, problem-solving skills, professionalism, and scholarship.
Clinical Scholarship
- Activities that systematically advance nursing science, including its teaching, research, and practice through rigorous inquiry that 1) is significant to the profession, 2) is creative, 3) can be documented, 4) can be replicated or elaborated, and 5) can be peer-reviewed through various methods and includes discovery, teaching, practice, and integration.
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.