Doctor of Nursing Practice Careers
Become a Leader in Nursing with an Advanced Degree
100% Online Coursework
Seeking CCNE Accreditation
- Executive Leadership Concentration builds business and management expertise
- 1,000 practicum hours provide real-world application of skills
- Online, asynchronous coursework led by expert faculty
- No GRE/GMAT or application fee required for admission
Complete your 100% online Doctor of Nursing Practice at Methodist University to gain the clinical and research expertise to positively impact patient outcomes. Through the required Executive Leadership Concentration, engage with rigorous coursework designed to help you become a transformational leader in the nursing practice.
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Advance to Top-Earning Positions in Nursing
Nurse Executive1 $141,000 per year
Chief Nursing Officer2 $135,355 per year
Nurse Educator3 $82,040 per year
Director of Nursing4 $93,944 per year
Pursue High-Impact, High-Salary Roles
The nurse shortage has led to an increased demand for nursing leaders who can navigate the ever-changing health care industry. With your 100% online Doctor of Nursing Practice with Executive Leadership Concentration from Methodist University, you’ll be poised to join the ranks of top leaders in nursing and positively impact patient care through roles in teaching and leadership.
Under guidance from MU’s expert faculty, you’ll build the management and research expertise needed to pursue high-salary roles such as nursing director, nurse executive, or chief nursing officer. You may also choose to complete your six elective credits with courses that count toward a Graduate Nursing Education Certificate.
- Clinical nurse managers earn a median salary of $85,055 per year.5
- Currently, 68,0603 nursing educators are employed in the United States, and the job outlook for this position is expected to grow 9% through 2029.6
- Employment of medical and health managers, including nurse managers and executives, is projected to grow 28% through 2031, which is much faster than average.7
Program Outcomes and Skills Acquired
What You’ll Learn
After completing the 100% online Doctor of Nursing Practice, you will be able to:
- Synthesize knowledge and evidence-based practice from nursing and other disciplines to guide well-informed and socially responsible leadership decisions.
- Analyze the various leadership styles to determine their effectiveness in creating a productive and fiscally responsible work environment that centers on improving patient outcomes.
- Demonstrate communication skills that facilitate collaboration to enhance safety while reducing adverse outcomes.
- Analyze factors that impact the fiscal stability of a healthcare system, including how to create and maintain a budget.
- Explore the impact of informatics on data mining and improving patient outcomes through quality improvement initiatives.
- Model leadership behaviors that reflect ethical practices in nursing, as well as decision making that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Identify the role of the nurse leader in collaborating with community, state, national, and global organizations to promote public health initiatives that positively impact accessibility and equitable distribution of resources from an epidemiological standpoint.
Skills You’ll Gain
- Executive Leadership
- Decision-Making
- Health Informatics
- Health Care Statistics
- Leadership Strategies
- Management Techniques
- Scholarly Writing
Executive Leadership Concentration
MU’s 100% online Doctor of Nursing Practice includes an Executive Leadership Concentration, which prepares graduates to perform in the highest ranks of health care management. Through 14 credit hours in this concentration, you’ll engage with topics including transformational management, health care business concepts, equity and inclusion in global health, and epidemiological-driven health initiatives.
Ensuring Your Success Beyond Graduation
From the moment you become a student at Methodist University, you’ll have access to the support needed to obtain career readiness skills, internships, employment, and other career opportunities. And you can tap into a wide variety of career services long after you’ve graduated.
Here are just a few examples of what you can expect for career support as a student or alumnus. You can benefit from all of them remotely.
Sources
- “Salary for Certification: Nurse Executive – Board Certified.” Payscale. Retrieved on Jan. 23, 2023 from “https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Certification=Nurse_Executive_-_Board_Certified_(NE-BC)/Salary.”
- “Average Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) Salary.” Payscale. Retrieved on Nov. 21, 2022 from “https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Chief_Nursing_Officer_(CNO)/Salary.”
- “Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics: 25-1072 Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary.” U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved on Nov. 21, 2022 from “https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes251072.htm.”
- “Average Director, Nursing Salary.” U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved on Nov. 21, 2022 from “https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Director%2C_Nursing/Salary.”
- “Average Clinical Nurse Manager Salary.” Payscale. Retrieved on Nov. 21, 2022 from “https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Clinical_Nurse_Manager/Salary.”
- “Nurse Educator Career Overview.” NurseJournal. Retrieved on Nov. 21, 2022 from “https://nursejournal.org/careers/nurse-educator/.”
- “Medical and Health Services Managers.” Retrieved on Nov. 21, 2022 from “https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/medical-and-health-services-managers.htm.”