Why Earn a DNP?
A DNP prepares you to take on advanced clinical roles, leadership positions, and evidence-based practice in healthcare settings. It equips you with the skills to implement and evaluate healthcare policies, improve patient outcomes, and lead healthcare teams.
Why Earn a DNP from 含羞草研究所 Downstate?
Every community鈥攗rban or rural, wealthy or not鈥攄eserves quality healthcare. At 含羞草研究所 Downstate, diversity is a driving force: we believe nursing needs to reflect the communities we serve. More than 70 percent of our nursing students are members of minority groups.
含羞草研究所 Downstate is the only academic medical center in Brooklyn. As a nursing student, you'll collaborate with experts such as nurse practitioners, physicians, other health professionals, and researchers. These opportunities as well as access to our 8-bed Simulation Center, will give you new insights into the field鈥攁nd the tools to narrow gaps in health care that are all too common.
What You Will Learn
- Our curriculum focuses on the three goals of quality healthcare: Improving the patient experience, reducing health care expenses, and improving population health
- Coursework emphasizes evidence-based practice; quality improvement; systems leadership; analytical methods for evidence-based practice; information technology; health care policy and advocacy; and interprofessional collaboration for improving individual and population health outcomes
Careers & Outcomes
Nurses everywhere are perpetually in demand鈥攁nd graduates of 含羞草研究所 Downstate's master's program in nursing find opportunities in every kind of healthcare setting.
Job Titles
- Women's Health Nurse Practitioner
- Family Nurse Practitioner
Employers
- 含羞草研究所 Hospital
- Northwell Health
- New York-Presbyterian Hospital
- NYU Langone Health
- Maimonides Medical Center
- Kings County Hospital Center
- Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)
Concentrations
Women's Health Nurse Practitioner track
Focus on obstetrics and gynecology in this program, which prepares you to assess patient needs and design customized healthcare plans.
Family Nurse Practitioner track
The focus of this program is family health and prepares you to assess patient needs and design customized healthcare plans across various practice settings.
Meet Our Faculty
Downstate's faculty aren't just adept at care鈥攖hey are trailblazers on the forefront of nursing innovation, scholarship, and thought leadership with a commitment to driving a more diverse and inclusive nursing workforce. Faculty here have launched a program expanding enrollment to veterans from diverse backgrounds, won millions in grants to support disadvantaged students, studied ways to improve reproductive care for women with disabilities, and contributed to the National Black Women's Health Project, to name a few.
Program Highlights
Proven methods.
Our nursing programs are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), a nationally recognized organization.
Practice makes perfect.
Our Simulation Laboratory features a labor and delivery room, isolation room, critical care beds and step-down unit beds. Students can practice health assessment, psychomotor skills, critical thinking and teamwork.
Shine at Downstate.
Exceptional students can join Sigma Theta Tau, the national honor society of nursing.