Several years ago, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) proposed that over time, the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) degree should become the entry-level degree for the advanced ...

Graduate nursing education at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing (FPB) can be made more affordable through funding from the Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP), which covers tuition for up to ...

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 ...

Leslie Pitts, MSN, CRNP, CPNP-AC, CDCES, AP-PEN (BSN 2006, MSN 2009), is the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing’s first Dual DNP-PhD Pathway student. After more than 16 years as a ...

You could say Christina Feggans-Langston was destined to become a nurse. “I was named Christina after one of the nurses that my mom had when she was delivering me,” says Feggans-Langston, who works ...