One week residency!

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I am loathe to start this thread, but here it is anyway:

I saw this whilst browsing through one of the other forums.

http://www.wilkes.edu/pages/194.asp?item=55324&rp=1142

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Wilkes University to Offer Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree Beginning in 2010
Program a First in Northeast Pennsylvania
Contact: Vicki Mayk

Wilkes University will be the first northeast Pennsylvania institution to offer a doctor of nursing practice degree. This degree – deemed the industry standard for educating advanced practice nurses – will enroll its first class in summer 2010. Wilkes will offer the degree online to accommodate the needs of busy health-care professionals. Only one week-long residency is required to complete the program.
The new doctoral program meets a health-care industry need. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, all new advanced practice nurses in the United States will be educated at the doctoral level by 2015. Advanced practice nurses include nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, nurse anesthetists and clinical nurse specialists. Master’s degrees are currently required for those specialties. Hospitals who have earned magnet recognition for excellence in nursing practice through the American Nurse Credentialing Center need advanced practice nurses to maintain magnet status.

About 15 percent of nursing education programs in the United States – 92 out of 600 programs – offer the doctor of nursing practice degree. Few offer the opportunity to complete most coursework for the degree online.

Bernard Graham, dean of the Nesbitt College of Pharmacy and Nursing, says, “The change to require doctoral degrees puts nursing on a par with other health professions. In the future, nurses who take leadership roles in nursing practice will have doctorates like the one we are offering at Wilkes.”

The program also responds to a continuing nursing shortage regionally and nationally. Demographic data in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties reflects an aging nursing population that will contribute to a shortage of nurses. Offering the doctor of nursing practice degree will help to ensure a pool of advanced practice nurses to meet the needs of hospitals in northeast Pennsylvania. Health care services are considered among the fastest growing occupations in the region, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Mary Ann Merrigan, chair of the department of nursing at Wilkes, says the new degree offers more opportunities for partnerships with area health-care providers seeking to educate the workforce.
“Wilkes’ nursing program partners with many clinical agencies for the graduate education of employees,” Merrigan explains. “Those partnerships have included Wyoming Valley Health Care and Hazleton Health Alliance. With the introduction of the doctor of nursing practice degree, we expect such partnerships to expand.”

The program’s directors are Deborah Zbegner and Bridgette Zielinski, both associate professors of nursing in the Nesbitt College of Pharmacy and Nursing. Individuals enrolled in the program will be able to choose among three concentrations: gerontology, psychiatric/mental health and nursing management. Nurses who have completed a master’s degree may enroll in the program and earn it by completing 30 credits in about two and a half years. Nurses with a bachelor’s degree enrolling in the program will complete 67 credits. Students with a bachelor’s degree who enroll part-time will complete the degree in about five years.

Wilkes University’s nursing program has earned a 10-year accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, making it one of small number of programs in Pennsylvania to achieve this distinction. The University offers the bachelor of science in nursing degree and the master of science in nursing, which prepares nurses to be certified as clinical nurse specialists in gerontology or psychiatric/mental health nursing, nursing education or nursing management.

For more information about the doctor of nursing practice degree, please contact 1-800-WILKES-U, extension 3235 or call 570-408-3235.
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Published On: 12/11/2009

 

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I am loathe to start this thread, but here it is anyway:

I saw this whilst browsing through one of the other forums.

http://www.wilkes.edu/pages/194.asp?item=55324&rp=1142

Latest Wilkes News Archives

Go to the Index...
Wilkes University to Offer Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree Beginning in 2010
Program a First in Northeast Pennsylvania
Contact: Vicki Mayk

Wilkes University will be the first northeast Pennsylvania institution to offer a doctor of nursing practice degree. This degree – deemed the industry standard for educating advanced practice nurses – will enroll its first class in summer 2010. Wilkes will offer the degree online to accommodate the needs of busy health-care professionals. Only one week-long residency is required to complete the program.

This really isn't surprising nor new for a curriculum which is primarily offered in the on-line format. The "residency" refers to mandatory appearance on campus for face time and advising with faculty, a few intensive seminars, etc. It's not for patient care. And it's not a research-based PhD program.

There are many similar programs around the country now. They are tuition money cash-cows for schools of nursing.

In contrast, programs which are patient-care focused are under the heading of "nurse practitioner," which is not the same as the Wilkes program. The Wilkes program is to produce more clipboard-carrying bureaucrats with a fancy-sounding collection of alphabet soup credentials after their name.



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[Arch Guillotti]

exactly. this thread really has nowhere to go so I am closing it.

Just irks me that anyone than physicians can claim that they completed a "residency".