title: Is the DNP the answer to the nursing faculty shortage? Not likely!
abstract: The DNP is being touted as the answer to the faculty shortage. There is no evidence that DNP graduates are any more willing to embrace the low salaries of nursing faculty than PhD graduates. The idea of the DNP as the answer to the faculty shortage is challenged.
authors.affiliation: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Nursing, Edwardsville, IL, USA. kkelly@siue.edu
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kelly
mesh_terms: D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D006801:Humans; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce