Nursing, Doctor of Nursing Practice, Nurse Anesthesia

The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) is offered through the Southern California CSU DNP Consortium, which includes the CSU campuses of Fullerton and Los Angeles. The DNP is a professional practice degree designed to prepare nurses in advanced practice for complex practice and leadership roles in the clinical setting.

The DNP program is an extremely demanding and rigorous academic experience designed to prepare nurses to assume the highest levels of nursing professional practice. In addition to developing advanced competencies in evidence-based practice, leadership, health policy and advocacy, graduates will develop in-depth skills in a focused area of nursing practice.

The Council of Accreditation for Nurse Anesthesia programs requires that preparation be at the applied doctoral level; students may enter the program with a bachelor's or master's degree in nursing and required critical care experience. For the Nurse Anesthesia concentration, students will complete extensive clinical practice in anesthesia in collaboration with the Kaiser Permanente School of Anesthesia; graduates will be prepared to sit for the national certifying examination for Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesist (CRNA). The Nurse Anesthetist concentration follows a set full-time schedule.

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