Dr. Nurse
The Wall Street Journal has a long and really positive article on
doctorate of nursing practice degrees.
As the shortage of primary-care physicians mounts, the nursing profession is offering a possible solution: the "doctor nurse."
More than 200 nursing schools have established or plan to launch doctorate of nursing practice programs to equip graduates with skills the schools say are equivalent to primary-care physicians. The two-year programs, including a one-year residency, create a "hybrid practitioner" with more skills, knowledge and training than a nurse practitioner with a master's degree, says Mary Mundinger, dean of New York's Columbia University School of Nursing. She says DNPs are being trained to have more focus than doctors on coordinating care among many specialists and health-care settings.
Read the whole thing. It reads as an enthusiastic endorsement of doctorate-level advanced practice nurses. Even the physician quotes aren't too anti-DNP. The nursing profession has done a good job selling this and any opposition has been pretty tepid.
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