Course Descriptions

Doctor of Nursing Practice

DNP 7101
Epidemiology for Advanced Nursing Practice
3 credits

This course will examine the role of epidemiology and biostatistics in public health and advanced nursing practice. Students will learn various methods to measure disease burden, apply epidemiological principles to disease causation, organize epidemiological information to measure disease frequencies, and how to apply descriptive and analytic epidemiological methods.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Accelerated MSN-NP to DNP option, Combined Post-Masters FNP or AGPCNP Certificate/DNP option, DNP Program, or permission of the DNP Program Chair.