The DNP. Why now? Several broadscale healthcare factors influenced nursing policy makers to roll out the doctorate of nursing practice degree in the midst of a national shortage.
Fain
James A
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College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA.
Asselin
Marilyn
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McCurry
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