PMID- 28363393
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170815
LR  - 20170815
IS  - 1532-8481 (Electronic)
IS  - 8755-7223 (Linking)
VI  - 33
IP  - 2
DP  - 2017 Mar-Apr
TI  - An Academic-Practice Partnership to Advance DNP Education and Practice.
PG  - 86-94
LID - S8755-7223(16)30125-9 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.profnurs.2016.08.010 [doi]
AB  - During the past decade, the growth of doctor of nursing practice (DNP) programs 
      in the United States has been phenomenal, with most focusing on the preparation 
      of advanced practice registered nurses. Simultaneously, academic-practice 
      partnerships have been a frequent subject of discussion for nursing's leading 
      academic, administrative, and practice organizations. Numerous reports about 
      academic-practice partnerships concerning aspects of baccalaureate nursing 
      education exist, but partnership accounts for DNP programs are essentially 
      nonexistent. The purpose of this article is to describe the initial phase of an 
      academic-practice partnership between a multisystem health care organization and 
      a college of nursing in a public land-grant university in the southeastern United 
      States. The 7-year partnership agreement between Norton Healthcare and the 
      University of Kentucky College of Nursing was designed to prepare 5 cohorts of 20 
      to 30 baccalaureate-prepared staff nurses as DNP graduates for advanced practice 
      registered nurse eligibility. The description of partnering institution 
      characteristics frames an emphasis on elements of the partnership proposal, 
      contractual agreement, and partner responsibilities along with the logic model 
      evaluation plan. Lessons learned include the importance of proposals and 
      contracts to sustain the partnership, frequent communication to build trust, and 
      strategic analysis for rapid response to challenging situations.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FAU - Howard, Patricia B
AU  - Howard PB
AD  - Vice Dean and Marion E McKenna Professor, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.. 
      Electronic address: pb.howard@uky.edu.
FAU - Williams, Tracy E
AU  - Williams TE
AD  - Senior Vice President and System Chief Nursing Officer, Norton Healthcare, 
      Louisville, KY.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160820
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  - Advanced Practice Nursing/*methods
MH  - Contracts
MH  - Curriculum
MH  - Education, Nursing, Graduate/organization & administration
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Interinstitutional Relations
MH  - Kentucky
MH  - Models, Educational
MH  - *Nurses
MH  - *Program Development
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Academic-practice partnership
OT  - Contractual agreements
OT  - Doctor of nursing practice programs
EDAT- 2017/04/02 06:00
MHDA- 2017/08/16 06:00
CRDT- 2017/04/02 06:00
PHST- 2015/12/16 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/04/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2017/04/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/08/16 06:00 [medline]
AID - S8755-7223(16)30125-9 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.profnurs.2016.08.010 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Prof Nurs. 2017 Mar-Apr;33(2):86-94. doi: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2016.08.010. Epub 
      2016 Aug 20.