The practice doctorate in nursing initiative has advanced surprisingly rapidly over the last several years, prompting nursing educators, prospective students, and clinicians to question and indeed to ...

This chapter continues the focus on promising new models for developing 21st century skills through science education begun in the previous chapter. Research conducted on both of the curriculum models ...

The Traditional Model, otherwise known as the ladder model, reflects no major changes to the existing NP curriculum models but adds (or "layers on") the practice doctorate ( Table 1). The student can ...