Strategies to Move Entry-Level Nurse Practitioner Education to the Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree by 2025

Nurse Educator

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2021, Pages 336-341

  Idzik, Shannon ^a   Buchholz, Susan W ^b   Kelly Weeder, Susan ^c   Finnegan, Lorna ^d   Bigley, Mary Beth ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^e National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties   (United States)

Author keywords

Doctor of Nursing Practice; entry to practice; graduate nursing education; National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF); nurse practitioner

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; EDUCATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEADERSHIP; MALE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING PRACTICE; UNITED STATES; CURRICULUM;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, NURSING, GRADUATE; HUMANS; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85121157342     PISSN: 03633624     EISSN: 15389855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000001129     Document Type: Article

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