Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
ISSN/EISSN: 10913734
Subject:
Nursing
Publisher: Kent State University School of Nursing
Country: United States
Language: English
Start year 1996
Publication fee:
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Loading...In October 2004 the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) membership voted to require the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) as the entry level degree for all new advanced practice nurses by 2015. At the time of the October 2004 vote there was only one DNP Program in the country, but the AACN proceeded to align itself with this one degree model. Was this vote for the 2015 mandate hasty or perhaps bold? Was the DNP model so singly endorsed, embraced prematurely? This article discusses the broader context of why the DNP should not be the only practice doctorate degree model offered and why the clinical research Doctor of Nursing Practice (DrNP) degree at Drexel University should be a viable alternative. In development since 2000, the Drexel Model DrNP is a hybrid degree combining the professional practice doctorate and the academic research doctorate. Unlike the DNP, it includes a clinical dissertation that will prepare a ‘practitioner/researcher’ to help advance the evidence base of nursing.
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Loading...Kibbutz nursing has long been established as a role that addresses the needs of a community’s health that arises from the underlying philosophy of the kibbutz communal structure. Despite the number of years of this nursing practice, there is a paucity of literature concerning its development and scope. While parallels may exist with other rural and remote nursing services throughout the world, the kibbutz philosophy of "each according to his ability and to each according to his needs" has governed the important areas of education, labor, and the provision of health to its members. This model of nursing care illustrates a number of examples of primary health principles that can be adapted and applied in other rural nursing practices. The article discusses problems nurses face in such an intimate setting as the kibbutz.