The School of Nursing at King University in Bristol, Tennessee is pleased by the news that their Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program has received accreditation status. The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) granted the accreditation status for five years, beginning at the end of this month and extending through June 30, 2021. The next on-site evaluation of King University’s DNP program will take place in the fall of 2020.

King University was first approved to operate as a Level V Institution in December 2013 by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the Southern states. The university was then granted approval from the SACSCOC to implement a Doctor of Nursing Practice program in August 2014.[et_bloom_inline optin_id=optin_16]

The DNP program at King University is a practice-focused platform contributing to the expansion of knowledge underlying advanced professional nursing practice. Their program emphasizes essential knowledge development in translation of research into practice, evaluation of interdisciplinary teamwork for performance excellence, and dissemination of new knowledge for outcomes improvement. The School of Nursing designed the DNP program using the Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice as specified by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Dr. Cecelia Lynn Holden, dean and associate professor of the King University School of Nursing, spoke up to give her thanks to the CCNE for King’s DNP program accreditation. It is a tremendous honor to receive accreditation status from the CCNE organization, and Holden believes that King University’s first doctoral program in nursing will be a great development for the nursing profession.

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