Question

Construct a scholarly opinion stating your support or refute of the DNP as entry into practice.

Answer 1

DNP means a doctor of nurse practice. This course is designed to improve the increased advanced practices and skills among the nurses.

Impact of DNP in health care

After entering the DNP in the nursing practice, there is drastic changes occur in the patient quality care provided by the nurse in the health care setting. In this, the nurses who underwent these courses started providing care base on evidence-based practice and provided a high quality of care. This leads to an increase in the quality of the nursing profession at the highest level, provision of patient care with the use of scientific knowledge. It expands the scope of the nursing profession. After entry of DNP, the nurse who completes DNP prame can conduct diagnostic, screening and prescribing the medicine for the patient.

Benefits of entry DNP

- improve providing high-quality patient care

- increase the critical thinking skill

- the nursing profession is lifting up to the advance nursing practice

- provision of only evidence-based practices

- the nurse get the change to perform complex diagnostic measure, and treatment modalities that is almost same like a doctor do in the hospital.

Disadvantages

- The nurse can prescribe medicine but they can not perform any surgery.

- It take long time to complete the course that is 3 to 5 years

- The nurses who completed master degree only can enter the DNP course, this leads to reduce the number of nurse who persue this course.

Differences between the DNP and PHD

Both are the doctorate degree course. The differences is that DNP focus on the advance in the nursing practices and PHD focus on conduct of research and providing many evidence base practice.