Nursing, Advanced Practice Nursing Immersion, DNP

This program offers you a direct-entry Doctor of Nursing Practice in only four years if you have already completed an unrelated baccalaureate degree. During the first four semesters of study you will focus on completing prelicensure coursework and preparing for the NCLEX-RN exam. Due to the intensity of the program, we don’t recommend that students work during the first four semesters of the program.

You can view the full APNI prelicensure program of study here.

A minimum grade of “C” (2.0) is required in each prerequisite, except where noted otherwise. Each prerequisite course requires 3-5 credit hours.*

• Anatomy and Physiology I with lab (within 5 years; 2.7 GPA required)
• Anatomy and Physiology II with lab (within 5 years; 2.7 GPA required)
• Microbiology with lab (within 5 years)
• Chemistry, 1 year high school or 1 quarter/semester college (no time limit)
• Introduction to Psychology
• Psychology Growth and Development
• Algebra
• Statistics

All prerequisite courses must be taken at regionally accredited institutions. The College of Nursing and Health Sciences will also accept online coursework taken through a regionally accredited institution. All prerequisites coursework should be completed within 10 years, except where noted otherwise. All prerequisites must be completed before classes begin.

*Note: The prerequisite courses listed above are typically offered for 3 credits and are acceptable, though some courses may be offered for up to 5 credits and are also acceptable.

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APNI/BSN Program Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the BSN degree, Seattle University nursing students will be able to:

1. Integrate knowledge from liberal arts, nursing science, and related disciplines to promote wellbeing through a generalist practice.
2. Provide patient-centered care by applying the nursing process to maximize the health of clients.
3. Demonstrate critical thinking attitudes, skills, and abilities in clinical decision making and evaluation of evidence-based nursing practice.
4. Integrate technology and information management with relationship-centered nursing care across the health continuum in a variety of health care settings.
5. Use interpersonal communication, collaboration, and organizational skills to work in partnerships with clients, families, communities, and the health care team to promote health.
6. Apply leadership principles and quality improvement techniques to influence health policy, regulations, and the provision of care to ensure quality and safety.
7. Demonstrate professional values through commitment to self-evaluation, lifelong learning, professionalism, service, respect for diversity, and social justice.

DNP graduates will: 

1. Synthesize knowledge from nursing and other disciplines in the provision of evidence-based advanced practice nursing care. 
2. Utilize information systems technology to improve healthcare access, quality, and outcomes. 
3. Demonstrate competence in an advanced nursing practice specialty. 
4. Exercise leadership through scholarship, advocacy, and community engagement to achieve just and equitable healthcare systems that improve health potential and reduce health disparities of vulnerable populations. 
5. Evaluate and influence healthcare systems and health policy at local, state, federal, and global levels. 
6. Demonstrate effective communication and interprofessional collaboration in the promotion of healthcare access, quality, and outcomes. 
7. Evaluate beliefs, values, and ways of knowing to foster lifelong personal and professional development. 
8. Apply ethical decision-making in complex clinical situations.