Accompanying the move toward a clinical doctorate for advanced practice nurses is a call by certain groups for an expansion of the scope of practice. Advocates have been arguing for more autonomy for ...

As director of the doctor-of-nursing-practice program at Robert Morris University, I feel compelled to reply to “A New Degree and Exam Create ‘Doctor Nurses,’ Irking Physicians” (The Chronicle, ...

On Feb. 29, the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors approved a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program at North Carolina A&T State University. The degree is the newest addition to ...

ASTON — Neumann University has launched a new Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. Classes will begin in the fall of 2025, and applications are now being accepted. The goal of the DNP degree is to ...

I am sorely disappointed in APNs [advanced practice nurses] for not seeing the 21st-century medical future of technology, cellular biology, and the physics of space and hope that the AACN [American ...

In the fall of 2010, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of Nevada, Reno joined forces to begin offering a collaborative Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree to meet a growing ...

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia has approved Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing to offer a post-master’s Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. The school is the first ...

At a time of major workforce shortages, why would the Department of Education make it harder for nurses to obtain advanced ...

King University received notification from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) that the University’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program has been granted accreditation status by ...

LONG BEACH >> Nine students at Cal State Long Beach were among the first in the CSU system to receive their doctor of nursing practice degrees when they walked across the stage during a morning ...