Officials at Cal State Bakersfield are celebrating the launch of the university’s second doctoral program in its 55-year history, a doctor of nursing practice. The need is great: Kern County is a ...

The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) is designed to prepare registered nurses with baccalaureate degrees for advanced roles in nursing based on the premise that all nurse educators are leaders, and ...

Although the current masters and PhD programs in nursing are critical to the future of the profession and are evolving to keep pace with new demands, they do not fill the growing need for expert ...

For the past two decades, the nation's main associations overseeing nursing education have called for the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) to be the standard entry-level degree for advanced practice ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Bellarmine University is offering a new doctorate program with the help of Norton Healthcare. Bellarmine is adding a Nurse Anesthesia track to its Doctor of Nursing Practice ...

accreditation for a new Nurse Anesthesia track at Ursuline College in collaboration with SNAP, Somnia Nurse Anesthesia Program. The full-time, 36-month program prepares baccalaureate-educated nurses ...

The University of California San Francisco is ending its master’s program for nurse midwives and moving to a doctorate program — and critics say it could make it harder for new midwives to enter the ...

One of California’s two programs for training nurse-midwives has stopped admitting students while it revamps its curriculum to offer only doctoral degrees, a move that’s drawn howls of protest from ...

Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare is partnering with Quinnipiac University to launch a two-year, part-time educational program aimed at helping mid-career professionals transition into nursing. The ...