Features
- A collaborative environment that provides opportunities for innovative projects. Purdue University West Lafayette Interdisciplinary Collaborators: Health Sciences, Health and Kinesiology, Pharmacy, Gerontology, Health Communication, Krannert School of Management, Information Technology, Homeland Security, and the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering.
- Implementation of collaborative practice team education and internships in which DNP students, engineering graduate students, and others share coursework and work together on major internship experiences that research and implement evidence-based practice.
- Advanced information technology and computer sciences to improve quality of healthcare delivery systems.
- Access to interdisciplinary faculty and researchers in specified areas of clinical research.
- Clinical preceptorships with interdisciplinary teams caring for underserved populations in rural and urban healthcare settings.
- Strategic leadership opportunities in the school's nurse-managed clinics as well as HMOs and local/regional healthcare facilities.
- Opportunity to tailor cognate courses in areas of sub-specialization such as rural health, quality improvement, practice design and management, or public health/homeland security.
- Accelerated sequential curriculum design for post-baccalaureate to DNP, emphasizing health promotion, disease prevention, chronic disease management and evidence-based practice.
- Opportunity for part-time study, which allows a student to maintain professional employment while pursuing an advanced degree.