Several years ago, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) proposed that over time, the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) degree should become the entry-level degree for the advanced ...

Leslie Pitts, MSN, CRNP, CPNP-AC, CDCES, AP-PEN (BSN 2006, MSN 2009), is the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing’s first Dual DNP-PhD Pathway student. After more than 16 years as a ...

For the past two decades, the nation's main associations overseeing nursing education have called for the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) to be the standard entry-level degree for advanced practice ...

Valerie Fuller, PhD, DNP Dr Fuller talks about the need to pass Full Practice Authority across the country. Valerie Fuller, PhD, DNP, is the President-elect of the American Association of Nurse ...