DNP Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice, Second Edition

166 ■ II: ROLES FOR DOCTORAL ADVANCED NURSING PRACTICE

Master’s Essentials

Doctorate of Nursing

Practice Essentials Key Differences

1. Research prepares the
   graduate to: access relevant
   data needed to address
   questions, analyze outcomes
   and initiate change, understand
   statistics and research
   methods, write and
   communicate effectively


2. Health care policy
   prepares graduates to: analyze
   policy results, articulate
   concerns to appropriate
   political officials regarding
   health care consumer
   advocacy; interpret
   to consumers
   5. Health care policy for
   advocacy in health care
   prepares the graduate to:
   demonstrate leadership with
   the development of health
   care polices, critically
   analyze policies with
   consideration of consumers,
   providers, and other
   disciplines, and lead
   implementation of policy
   
   
   • MSN graduate will analyze
     policy results while the DNP
     graduate will develop health
     care policy and analyze results
   
   
   • Stronger focus on DNP
     essentials for systems-wide
     thinking and approach
   
   
   • MSN essentials focus on
     population specific focus
     approach as opposed to
     population based (large
     complex data set) with DNP
   
   
   • The DNP graduate is leading
     the change in most regards
     while the MSN graduate
     assists with leading the
     change (may initiate/catalyze,
     but not lead the change
     for policy development)
   
   
   
   
   
   
   1. Scientific underpinning
      for practice prepares the
      graduate to: integrate nursing
      science from all sciences/
      disciplines, use science to
      determine significance of
      health/health care delivery
      system, and evaluate
      outcomes
   
   
   2. Clinical scholarship/
      analytical methods for EBP
      prepares the graduate to: use
      analytical methods to critically
      evaluate existing literature and
      other evidence relevant to
      practice, use technology
      research methods to identify
      gaps in research, and to
      disseminate research findings
      to improve practice of other
      providers
      
      
      • Macroscopic base with
        DNP essentials expanded to
        include all sciences to impact
        care at the highest level of
        nursing care
      
      
      • Population-based problem
        solving to impact health and
        health care system overall
      
      
      • DNP prepares students to
        evaluate large, complex data
        sets and recognize/interpret
        patterns
      
      
      • DNP prepares students to
        identify best practices and
        incorporate these practices
        into the clinical setting
        (translational research focus)
      
      
      • DNP graduate will
        disseminate findings of
        research to improve both
        practice and care delivery
        system
      
      
      
      
   
   
   
   

FIGURE 6.2 Comparison of essentials of master’s education and doctorate of nursing practice.
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