Northwestern’s 8th Annual DNP Residency Week set for July 13-17
May 16, 2025
Students in the Wisdom Family Foundation Doctoral Program for Rural Nursing Practice summer residency program will be on the Northwestern Oklahoma State University Alva campus July 13-17.
During residency week, students check off on their physical assessment skills to get ready to learn in a clinical setting. They also have an introductory experience to common procedures they will encounter in primary care such as suturing, eye injuries and biopsies.
Dr. Gwyneth Holderby (right), DNP program director and assistant professor nursing, assists a student suturing a pig specimen donated by Kiowa Meat Locker.
Local businesses Kiowa Meat Locker and Moore’s Venture Foods help make this experience possible by donating pig feet to practice suturing with and overripe produce for biopsy simulation.
The 2025 DNP graduates' poster presentation will be open to the public on the first floor of the J.W. Martin Library on July 17 from 3:30 to 4:40 p.m.
Dr. James Bell (right), vice president for academic affairs, listens to a DNP graduate’s presentation in the J.W. Martin Library during the 2024 DNP Residency Week.
The program is currently seeking volunteers for children and well-woman exams conducted by the family nurse practitioner students. Children exams will be conducted Tuesday, July 15, from 9 to 11 a.m. The well-woman exams will be conducted on Wednesday, July 16, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with an hour break from noon to 1 p.m. for lunch. All volunteer events will take place on the Northwestern-Alva campus.
To volunteer for an exam or for more information, contact Brenna Smith, Charles Morton Share Trust Division of Nursing assistant, at brsmith@nwosu.edu or (580) 327-8442.
“The event puts a spotlight on our DNP program at Northwestern,” said Dr. Gwyneth Holderby, DNP program director and assistant professor nursing.
The Northwestern DNP program was ranked the No. 1 Online Nurse Practitioner Program in the U.S. in 2021 and was rated No. 4 by EduMed.org for Online Higher Education in Healthcare in 2023.
Applications for entry into any of Northwestern’s nursing programs are accepted Oct. 1 through Feb. 1 for the next fall’s class. Interested students can apply for the BSN-to-DNP program, the traditional Bachelor of Science in Nursing program and the online RN-to-BSN program.
For more information on the Wisdom Family Foundation Doctoral Program for Rural Nursing Practice, visit www.nwosu.edu/graduate-studies/bsn-to-dnp or contact Holderby at glholderby@nwosu.edu or (580) 327-8491.
For more information about the Charles Morton Share Trust Division of Nursing, visit www.nwosu.edu/school-of-professional-studies/nursing.
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CONTACT FOR RELEASE:
Sean J. Doherty, University Relations Specialist
sjdoherty@nwosu.edu | (580) 327-8480