Earn your Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree while specializing as an Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) or a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP).
For nurses who already have an advanced practice degree (like CRNAs, NPs or midwives), earn your DNP without any clinical components.
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Residency Requirement
Boise State may be based in Idaho, but the BS-DNP program is available to registered nurses in states across the US.
Why BS-DNP at Boise State?
Dedicated clinical placement team
Dedicated to helping you through the logistics of clinical placements, our team ensures you’re not on your own. We have had a 100% placement success rate.
Supportive advising
Our staff are committed to your success. Current students said their advisor’s emails were “a lifeline” for the whole cohort and they were “always so professional, courteous, and quick to respond.”
Flexible and affordable
Our program blends online and in-person learning during annual summer intensives, and there is no out-of-state tuition.
Cohort model
Benefit from the varied nursing backgrounds of your peers and faculty as you learn from and support one another.
Tailored to You
In the BS to DNP program, students can start either full-time in the fall or part-time in the spring.
View admission deadlines, or contact our staff at NursingDNP@boisestate.edu to discuss a degree plan that fits your schedule.
BS-DNP Program Learning Outcomes
Clinical Judgment
Integrates theory and research into knowledge and scholarship for advanced practice to improve patient-centered and population health outcomes.
Commitment to excellence
The BS-DNP program models respect for differing viewpoints, identities and experiences for internal and external communities, critiquing one’s personal and professional practices in the context of nursing’s core values. These approaches encourage analyzing the impact of structural and cultural influences on nursing’s professional identity and ensuring that care provided by self and others is reflective of nursing’s core values. Structural and cultural influences are considered when delivering care and care is facilitated in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner, holding all accountable in modeling moral, legal and humanistic principles related to health.