As many nurse’s advances in their education, a time would come after their masters that they would be faced with decision making on which part to take. DNP or PhD? The PhD is academic related while DNP is practice related. Although they are both doctoral degrees, they have some similarities as well as differences. Understanding the differences before going into anyone helps individual to make the right choice. The three main differences are,
Objective: This is an area of focus for nurses in the research by discovering new knowledge which is the PhD goal, while DNP is practice focused and help nurses to know clinical practice. The curriculum of DNP is prepared in such a way to help make the choice if they want to involve in building knowledge through research? Or they want to use existing …show more content…
The PhD prepares nurses to carry out research involving nursing whether national, international or regional level, while that of DNP degree prepares nurses for leadership role in academic, management or health information technology.
Lastly is Time: Nurses should consider after being in school for a long time, getting to that stage how many years they can still add to acquire doctorate degree. It varies with each university. DNP takes 2 to 3 years after masters while PhD is 4 to 5 years to complete.
Having reviewed the three differences, I would prefer PhD to DNP because of name recognition which is so prestigious, the job opportunity such as research cannot be restricted to only nursing, again, I like it because you have the opportunity to work or share ideas with nurses or other health personnel on national, international or regional level. References
Johnson M. (2014). Practice (DNP) degree. Why the division? What's the difference between a DNP and PHD in nursing? Retrieved from https://www.nursetogether.com/whats-difference-between-dnp-and-phd-nursing\l
Objective: This is an area of focus for nurses in the research by discovering new knowledge which is the PhD goal, while DNP is practice focused and help nurses to know clinical practice. The curriculum of DNP is prepared in such a way to help make the choice if they want to involve in building knowledge through research? Or they want to use existing …show more content…
The PhD prepares nurses to carry out research involving nursing whether national, international or regional level, while that of DNP degree prepares nurses for leadership role in academic, management or health information technology.
Lastly is Time: Nurses should consider after being in school for a long time, getting to that stage how many years they can still add to acquire doctorate degree. It varies with each university. DNP takes 2 to 3 years after masters while PhD is 4 to 5 years to complete.
Having reviewed the three differences, I would prefer PhD to DNP because of name recognition which is so prestigious, the job opportunity such as research cannot be restricted to only nursing, again, I like it because you have the opportunity to work or share ideas with nurses or other health personnel on national, international or regional level. References
Johnson M. (2014). Practice (DNP) degree. Why the division? What's the difference between a DNP and PHD in nursing? Retrieved from https://www.nursetogether.com/whats-difference-between-dnp-and-phd-nursing\l