PMID- 23006648
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130226
LR  - 20120925
IS  - 1532-8481 (Electronic)
IS  - 8755-7223 (Linking)
VI  - 28
IP  - 5
DP  - 2012 Sep-Oct
TI  - Doctor of nursing practice programs across the United States: a benchmark of 
      information: part I: program characteristics.
PG  - 265-73
LID - S8755-7223(12)00023-3 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.profnurs.2012.01.003 [doi]
AB  - The number of doctor of nursing practice (DNP) programs in the United States has 
      dramatically increased. To date, there is a lack of benchmark data regarding DNP 
      program attributes; thus, the purpose of this investigation was to generate such 
      a database. Because of the volume of information gathered, the results are 
      presented in a two-part article. Part I consists of DNP program characteristics, 
      which include location of program, type of program, delivery, plan of study, 
      program length, number of credits, cost, program tracks, practice course name, 
      review of programs still offering the master's degree for advanced practice 
      nurses (APNs), and the availability of nursing education electives. Part II 
      consists of information regarding DNP admission criteria. A cross-sectional, 
      descriptive design was used to explore 137 DNP programs across the United States. 
      Data were collected exclusively via university Web sites. Descriptive statistics 
      including frequencies, percentages, means, and standard deviations were 
      calculated and presented in report, table, or figure format. This comprehensive 
      DNP program characteristic database is the first, to our knowledge, that is 
      available for review. As universities prepare to develop, amend, and seek 
      accreditation for their DNP programs, knowledge of these characteristics would be 
      helpful to compare, contrast, and construct curricula.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FAU - Udlis, Kimberly A
AU  - Udlis KA
AD  - Advanced Practice Nursing, Graduate Program, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 
      College of Nursing, Oshkosh, WI 54904, USA. udlis@uwosh.edu
FAU - Mancuso, Josephine M
AU  - Mancuso JM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Prof Nurs
JT  - Journal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of 
      Colleges of Nursing
JID - 8511298
SB  - IM
MH  - Accreditation/*standards
MH  - *Benchmarking
MH  - Costs and Cost Analysis
MH  - Databases, Factual/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Education, Nursing, Graduate/economics/*standards/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Humans
MH  - Nursing Education Research
MH  - Schools, Nursing/economics/*standards/statistics & numerical data
MH  - United States
EDAT- 2012/09/26 06:00
MHDA- 2013/02/27 06:00
CRDT- 2012/09/26 06:00
PHST- 2011/07/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/09/26 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/09/26 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/02/27 06:00 [medline]
AID - S8755-7223(12)00023-3 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.profnurs.2012.01.003 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Prof Nurs. 2012 Sep-Oct;28(5):265-73. doi: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2012.01.003.