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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 or visit www.wilkes.edu/DNP

 

[Monty Python]

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

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. 😱😱😱
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If this is anything like the other similar programs springing up everywhere (can you spell tuition cash cow for the universities), then the "residency" refers to time on campus for administrative functions, meeting with advisor, etc. It doesn't mean clinical time.

Again, if similar to other programs, this curriculum will be comprised of essentially non-clinical topics such as Advanced Clipboard Carrying, Foundations of Inane Policy Promulgation, How To Starch Your Long White Lab Coat, Promoting Total Patient Confusion, etc etc.


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[racerx]

Again, if similar to other programs, this curriculum will be comprised of essentially non-clinical topics such as Advanced Clipboard Carrying, Foundations of Inane Policy Promulgation, How To Starch Your Long White Lab Coat, Promoting Total Patient Confusion, etc etc.

With your permission. . .may I use this as a tagline?

 

[Monty Python]

With your permission. . .may I use this as a tagline?

sure, after removing my name please. thanks.

 

[racerx]

sure, after removing my name please. thanks.

But if course! I can appreciate your need for anonymity and deniability.

 

[Monty Python]

Thought you might like this cross-reference, to show the "logic" of future healthcare.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showpost.php?p=9095190&postcount=6

 

[netrome]

Some RN's have complained that the CRNA labor market is being overrun by Nurse doctors. I asked a RN making this claim about this and he proceed to explain that IMG (international medical graduates) or FMG (Foreign Medial Graduates) were going to special MD to RN programs and getting RN credentials that were recognized in the USA. He claimed that their was a special CRNA tract MD to RN program in California that was less than a year in length. In his opinion this was the biggest threat to American CRNA school graduates, and of course was going to quickly depress CRNA salaries.

 

[medicinesux]

Thanks to the O.P for bringing this issue to light as I recently blasted this very school and the emerging "noctor" explosion ==> http://medicinesux.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/noctors-aka-nurse-doctors


How sad is this. Here's a CA-3 inquiring about becoming a CRNA

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Anesthesiology-962/2009/10/MD-CRNA.htm

But do you really blame him? I mean CRNA salaries are bloated beyond belief and all the responsibility lies on the anesthesiologist's back. Plus NO CALL! The small differential in pay on a per hour basis between a CRNA and an anesthesiologist makes the extra years of schooling and added stress of being an anesthesiologist not worth it IMO.

 

[Eta Carinae]

Thanks to unfettered capitalism, when everything comes down to the almighty botton line, the consequences are staggering.

 

[netrome]

But do you really blame him? I mean CRNA salaries are bloated beyond belief and all the responsibility lies on the anesthesiologist's back. Plus NO CALL! The small differential in pay on a per hour basis between a CRNA and an anesthesiologist makes the extra years of schooling and added stress of being an anesthesiologist not worth it IMO.

It is unfortunate that now in many areas there are relatively few jobs for an Anesthesiologist while in the same market groups are hiring CRNA's. Anesthesiologist are not welcome to apply in many areas. Given the Tyranny of the exclusive contract, an Anesthesiologist has little choice but to seek employment elsewhere. While I think, the expert, Ronasld Levy, MD, gives good advice, for an CA-3 at an American residency program their is little point in trying to become a CRNA, it hurts having spent 12 years of education since high school and you can't land a job in a town you really want to live.


The real draw on the MD to RN or MD to CRNA programs is the FMG who has low USMLE scores or a lack of US contacts, so that they would be unlikely to land a US residency slot. They can enter the county to train for their RN and upon completion stay in the USA on the the new nursing need visa that will enable the to stay in the county earn a US RN or CRNA salary and if they want to working on getting good USMLE scores and contacts to land a residency. They could simply live comfortably on a US RN or CRNA salary which may be more than they would have eared a physician where them came from.

 

[sevo85288]

netrome: can you please provide me the name of one town and hospital where an anesthesiologist is not welcomed? Thanks in advance. I will call them to confirm.