DNP Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice, Second Edition

168 ■ II: ROLES FOR DOCTORAL ADVANCED NURSING PRACTICE

Key Differences

5. Theoretical foundations
   of nursing practice prepares
   the graduate to: critique and
   evaluate a variety of
   theories, apply and use
   appropriate theories to
   improve health care

Master’s Essentials

6. Human diversity/social
   issues prepares the
   graduate to confront
   subcultural influences on
   human behavior, including
   ethnic, racial, gender, and
   age differences; deliver
   multicultural competent
   advance nursing care

Doctorate of Nursing

Practice Essentials

2. Organizational and
   systems leadership for QI
   and systems thinking
   prepares the graduate to:
   use advanced
   communication
   skills/processes to lead
   change, employ principles
   of business, finance, health
   law to develop plans for
   practice level and/or
   system-wide improvement
   
   
   • Key differences again
     continues to be the scope of
     practice (macroscopic-DNP
     versus microscopic-MSN)
   
   
   • DNP graduate will exhibit
     the ability to incorporate
     leadership, organizational,
     and systems theories to impact
     change with large data sets
     over many organizational
     boundaries/nationally
   
   
   • MSN focuses on the
     application of principles while
     the DNP will develop
     organizational- wide
     improvements for application
   
   
   • The MSN continues to have a
     limited focus on population
     and/or community-focused/
     specific issues while the DNP
     focuses on national trends to
     address health care issues
     across several boundaries
     and geographic areas
   
   
   
   

No specific essential—

although these concepts

are embedded in the DNP

essentials

No specific essential

FIGURE 6.2 Comparison of essentials of master’s education and doctorate of nursing practice.
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