PMID- 19704297
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20091204
LR  - 20090825
IS  - 1550-5073 (Electronic)
IS  - 0893-2190 (Linking)
VI  - 23
IP  - 3
DP  - 2009 Jul-Sep
TI  - The NNP/DNP shortage: transforming neonatal nurse practitioners into DNPs.
PG  - 272-8
LID - 10.1097/JPN.0b013e3181b0bd79 [doi]
AB  - Neonatal nurse practitioners (NNPs) represent a high-demand specialty practice 
      that is especially targeted for US secondary and tertiary care neonatal intensive 
      care units (NICUs). NNPs make primary decisions about the caregiving of high-risk 
      newborns at the time of admission, throughout hospitalization, at transfer, and 
      at discharge that require an advanced knowledge base in neonatology as well as 
      NICU clinical experience. NNPs prepared at the master's level are currently in 
      very short supply, with some estimates suggesting that for each NNP who 
      graduates, there are 80 positions open across the country. Even with the present 
      shortage, due to the high cost of NNP education, NNP programs are diminishing and 
      those that are remaining are not graduating a sufficient number of new NNPs each 
      year to keep up with the demand. To add to the basic shortage problem, in 2004 
      the American Association of Colleges of Nursing decided that by 2015, the 
      terminal degree for all nurse practitioners should move from the master's degree 
      to the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) degree. That decision added a minimum of 
      12 months of full-time education to the advanced education requirements for nurse 
      practitioners. What impact will the decision to require a DNP degree have on NNP 
      specialty practice? Will even more NNP programs close because of faculty 
      shortages of NNPs prepared at the DNP level? If a worse shortage occurs in the 
      number of NNPs prepared to practice in NICUs, will physician assistants or other 
      nonphysician clinicians who meet the need for advanced neonatal care providers 
      replace NNPs? What steps, if any, can nursing take to ensure that NNP specialty 
      practice is still needed and survives after supplementing the DNP requirement to 
      NNP education?
FAU - Pressler, Jana L
AU  - Pressler JL
AD  - University of Oklahoma College of Nursing, Oklahoma City, OK 73117, USA. 
      Jana-pressler@ouhsc.edu
FAU - Kenner, Carole A
AU  - Kenner CA
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - United States
TA  - J Perinat Neonatal Nurs
JT  - The Journal of perinatal & neonatal nursing
JID - 8801387
MH  - Education, Nursing, Graduate/*organization & administration
MH  - Faculty, Nursing/organization & administration
MH  - Forecasting
MH  - Health Services Needs and Demand
MH  - Humans
MH  - Intensive Care, Neonatal/organization & administration
MH  - *Neonatal Nursing/education/organization & administration
MH  - *Nurse Practitioners/education/organization & administration
MH  - Nurse's Role
MH  - Organizational Innovation
MH  - Organizational Policy
MH  - Personnel Staffing and Scheduling/organization & administration
MH  - Physician Assistants/education/organization & administration
MH  - Societies, Nursing/organization & administration
MH  - United States
RF  - 26
EDAT- 2009/08/26 09:00
MHDA- 2009/12/16 06:00
CRDT- 2009/08/26 09:00
PHST- 2009/08/26 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/08/26 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/12/16 06:00 [medline]
AID - 00005237-200907000-00016 [pii]
AID - 10.1097/JPN.0b013e3181b0bd79 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Perinat Neonatal Nurs. 2009 Jul-Sep;23(3):272-8. doi: 
      10.1097/JPN.0b013e3181b0bd79.