A seed planted as a clinical doctorate project bloomed into the first annual doctorate of nursing practice conference. A group of DNP students from the University of Tennessee-Memphis created DNP LLC in 2006 to connect DNPs and DNP students, share information, and promote the clinical doctorate. This weekend, DNP ...

It may be because I'm a writer, but I think the words we choose matter in shaping people's perceptions and, eventually, our world. When I was a child, every female person was either a ''Mrs.'' or a ''Miss,'' signaling that a woman's relationship to a man is what defines her. A woman's social standing was embedded in how she was addressed: Mrs. ...