title: Doctor of Nursing Practice Education: Impact on Advanced Nursing Practice.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To discuss how doctoral education, specifically the doctorate of nursing practice (DNP) can promote changes in advanced practice nursing.
  
  
  METHODS
  Medline, CINAHL, PubMed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Variations continue to exist in educational curricula, program plans, and scholarly projects, leading to a lack of consistency in experiential learning. At this point in time it is too early in the DNP implementation process to determine ultimate impact.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Continuous program self-assessment and evaluation of DNP education programs will be of paramount importance to assure program quality and optimization of health trajectories.
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Paplham
authors.forename: Tammy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Austin-Ketch
mesh_terms: D057179:Advanced Practice Nursing / Q000193:education*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000193:education*; D010380:Peer Review; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014481:United States
keywords: DNP; Doctorate of nursing practice; curricula; education; outcomes; projects