Southeastern now offers BSN-DNP Nurse Executive Leadership Track
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
by: Tonya Lowentritt 
HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana University’s School of Nursing is now offering
a bachelor of science in nursing-doctor of nursing practice nurse executive leadership
track. Approved in December 2021, the first cohort of students will be accepted to
begin in summer 2022.
“This program uniquely provides nurse executive leaders with an advanced nursing
doctoral degree to complement their expertise in related areas of business, public
health, and health administration,” said Dean of the College of Nursing and Health
Sciences Ann Carruth. “The DNP brings together skills that leverage excellence in
health care networks in our region.”
School of Nursing Department Head Ken Tillman said the Nurse Executive Leadership
concentration prepares expert leaders to bring evidence-based knowledge into the practice
arena, improve health care outcomes, and strengthen the executive nurse leadership
role in guiding complex care delivery. For nurses with baccalaureate degrees who wish
to pursue graduate-level nurse executive leadership education leading to the DNP degree,
the NEL concentration allows nurse leaders with non-nursing master’s degrees, like
an MBA or MPH degree, to attain the DNP degree.
“This program provides an opportunity for nurses who are interested in executive
leadership, but not advanced practice, to pursue graduate studies at the doctoral
level,” he said.
Courses for the new program track will be taught in the fall, spring and summer
semesters, accelerating the time to completion of the DNP degree, explained Nursing
Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator Lindsay Domiano. All courses reflect
the American Association of Colleges and Nursing, Essentials of Master’s Education
in Nursing, and AACN Essentials of Doctoral Education in Nursing for Advanced Nursing
Practice and related competencies. All didactic components of MSN and DNP courses
will be taught online.
For more information about the program, contact Domiano at 985-549-5045 or gradnursadmin@southeastern.edu.
