The number of Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs in the US has increased rapidly in recent years. Although DNP program enrollment numbers vary, Dols et al (2017) confirmed the burden of increasing program enrollments and high faculty/student ratios for scholarly projects that often outweigh faculty resources. This contemporary growth in the doctoral nursing education landscape has increased the quantity, time, and work of mentored projects requiring faculty guidance. Our post-master's DNP program began in 2014 and has an average cohort size of 10 students per year. Students complete their academic coursework via online synchronous sessions, asynchronously, and during mandatory on-campus executive sessions. Mentorship experts acknowledge that mentoring challenges exist because of limited on-campus time and differing locations and time zones of students and faculty.