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resources” and 44% thinking that the “DNP will not impact current PhD resources.” In
2016, this changed to 52% “will not impact current PhD resources” and 39% “unclear”
(Figure 11.3). Among the PhD- only teaching faculty in 2012, “unclear” was 47%, fol-
lowed by 38% thinking that the “DNP will negatively impact current PhD resources.”
In 2016, “unclear” remained stable at 49%, as did “negatively impact” at 37%. In 2012,
among the combined DNP/ PhD teaching faculty the percentages were 38% “unclear”
closely followed by 31% “will not impact current PhD resources” and 28% “will nega-
tively impact current PhD resources. In comparison to 2016, those changes were 38%
versus 43% “unclear,” 31% versus 14% “will not impact” to 22% versus 28% “will nega-
tively impact current PhD resources.”
In the current 2016 study, in a reanalysis, we decided to eliminate participants
in both studies who had only a DNP program but no PhD program. In 2012, this was
very prevalent as many institutions had a new DNP program and no PhD. Conversely,
in 2016, we can only account for two schools that have a PhD but no DNP. We hypoth-
esized that only schools with both programs would have doctoral faculty who were
fully informed whether the DNP would impact PhD program resources or not. Novel
as that question was to us, analysis of the 2012 versus 2016 study (Figure 11.4) indi-
cated no statistical differences between the two studies. However, in 2016, it is still
interesting to note that 37% of doctoral teaching faculty (who either teach in a PhD
program where by inference there is also a DNP program, or who teach in both pro-
grams where both programs are obviously offered), indicated that PhD resources
would be negatively impacted by the DNP in 2012 and that only decreased to 31% in
the 2016 study.

68%

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22%

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2%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

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I support the

DNP

enthusiastically

I support the

DNP

moderately

I support the

DNP

reluctantly

I do not support

the DNP

Neither statement

above reflects my

view

Responses (%)

p < 0.001

DNP only (N = 343)v PhD only (N = 201) Both (N = 132)

FIGURE 11.2 Comparison of distribution of PhD faculty ( N  = 201), DNP faculty ( N  = 343) and
those who teach in both programs ( N  = 121) in their level of support for the DNP ( N  = 665).
DNP, Doctor of Nursing Practice.