Highest level of excellence in our Doctor of Nursing Practice
Highest level of excellence in our Doctor of Nursing Practice
To maintain the highest level of excellence in our Doctor of Nursing Practice
program we limit the number of applicants admitted for each start date.
Part of the selection process includes reviewing writing samples from prospective
students. This writing sample will be reviewed by our DNP Selection Committee.
Once you have completed the writing assignment described below, please forward
the Letter of Intent to your enrollment counselor.
- Write a short essay in response to the following four questions:
1. What is your motivation for earning a doctoral degree?
2. What do you envision doing differently when your degree is
complete?
3. What is your idea for a topic for your Direct Practice Improvement
(DPI) project?
4. Where do you plan to do most of your Practice hours?
- The title of this essay will be: Letter of Intent
- This paper should be at approximately 500 words in length.
- This paper must be written in APA format using Microsoft Word and must
include both a cover and reference page.
- Include one reference citation from any source.
I have been in the nursing for 14 years, always wanted to become an nursing leader. Communication improvement should be my project, and at a doctor’ clinic is where I plan to spent my hours.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.