DNP Palliative Care

Curriculum

Our program focuses on caring for individuals with life-threatening, progressive illness, emphasizing respect for patients’ and families’ beliefs, values, and choices. Additionally, students will identify a problem in palliative care and address it with evidence-based practice and quality improvement principles. 

MUSC Post-Master’s DNP in Palliative Care prepares students to:

• Become a leader among advanced practice nurses. Meet all requirements to sit for the Advanced Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse (ACHPN) exam, including both didactic and clinical hours.
• Demonstrate expertise in advanced nursing practice roles based on mastery of a specialized area of knowledge relative to palliative care derived from a strong scientific foundation.
• Evaluate local community and national palliative and hospice care resources for their relevance as an adjunct to care in the management of chronic and advanced pediatric illnesses.
• Integrate professional, legal, moral, and ethical standards into practice and care of patients on a palliative care trajectory

There are two program options for Post-MSN students:

• Advanced Practice Nursing (APN)
• Lifespan Palliative Care (LPC)

Additional palliative care clinical hours may also be added dependent on individual student goals/needs with the course NRDNP 876.

Graduate students can elect to add Nurse Educator courses to include:

• NURSM 615 Methodology of Online Teaching, 3 credit hours
• NURSM 703 Instructional Processes, 3 credit hours
• NURSM 713 Curriculum Design & Development, 3 credit hours
• NRPHD 800 Mentored Teaching, 3 credit hours