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 ...

Louise C. O'Keefe, MSN, CRNP, CDE, a UAB School of Nursing PhD student, received the 2011-2012 Outstanding Regional Nurse Practitioner Award for North Alabama. The award was presented by The Nurse ...

Pitfalls of nurse practitioner education made national headlines in July after a Bloomberg Businessweek article criticized programs for allegedly accepting students and graduating them without proper ...

Although the current masters and PhD programs in nursing are critical to the future of the profession and are evolving to keep pace with new demands, they do not fill the growing need for expert ...

The dean of the Columbia School of Nursing spoke to a group of students and faculty at the Ohio State College of Nursing yesterday about the future of Advanced Practice Nursing in the United States.

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing Professor and Associate Dean for Clinical and Global Partnerships Cynthia Selleck, PhD, RN, FNP, FAAN, and Associate Professor Shannon ...