Texas A&M Health College of Nursing
Fall
Course Number Course Credit Hours
NRPR 725 Theoretical Foundations of Healthcare 3
NRPR 728 Organizational and Systems Leadership 3
NRPR 739 Residency in Advanced Nursing Practice 1
Total 7
Spring
Course Number Course Credit Hours
NRPR 642 Survival and Systems: Leading Care Delivery in Extreme Environments 3
NRPR 644 Environmental Domains I: Nursing in Alpine, Arctic, Desert and Tropical Regions 3
NRPR 739 Residency in Advanced Nursing Practice 1
Total 7
Summer
Course Number Course Credit Hours
NRPR 645 Environmental Domains II: Urban and Low Intensity Conflict Nursing 2
NRPR 646 Environmental Domains III: Maritime and Aerospace Nursing in Extreme and Austere Settings 2
NRPR 739 Residency in Advanced Nursing Practice 1
Total 5
Fall
Course Number Course Credit Hours
NRPR 729 Analytic Methods for Research and Evidence Based Practice 3
NRPR 735 Scholarly Project Practicum I 2
NRPR 740 Organizational and Operational Applications I: Alpine, Arctic, Desert and Tropical Environments 3
Total 8
Spring
Course Number Course Credit Hours
NRPR 736 Scholarly Project Practicum II 2
NRPR 741 Organizational and Operational Applications II: Urban and Low Intensity Conflict 2
Total 4
Summer
Course Number Course Credit Hours
NRPR 737 Scholarly Project Practicum III 2
NRPR 742 Organizational and Operational Applications III: Maritime & Aerospace Nursing in Extreme & Austere 3
Total 5
Fall
Course Number Course Credit Hours
NRPR 730 Informatics 3
NRPR 738 Scholarly Project Practicum IV 2
Total 5
Program Total 41

At the completion of the DNP-Extreme Environment Nursing degree program, graduates will be prepared to:

  1. Apply implementation science as a framework to design, implement, and lead best practices at the highest level of advanced nursing practice.
  2. Act as a practice scholar to analyze, evaluate, and advance quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of patient care and systems of care.
  3. Design innovative, evidence-based advanced nursing approaches to reduce health disparities, promote health and high-quality outcomes for individuals, populations, and health systems.
  4. Engage with and lead high performing inter-professional teams to co-create solutions that promote health outcomes and health care delivery.
  5. Construct innovative solutions to complex health issues using information systems, data analysis, and technology.
  6. Lead development of nursing practice and health care policy based on principles of social justice, health equity, and cultural sensitivity.
  7. Adapt and implement evidence-based interventions in austere and resource-limited settings.
  8. Lead interprofessional response and recovery teams in complex emergencies.
  9. Advance health equity through system-level innovation in vulnerable and high-risk environments.