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Doctorate of Nursing Practice: A Conduit for Scholarship in the Realm of Advanced Practice

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The doctorate of nursing practice has been referred to as a pipeline with varying educational parameters that will either expand or constrict the flow of nurses through the advanced practice nursing pathway. There is also a concern expressed that the reduction in the number of nurses graduating with a PhD will impact on the discipline of nursing. If scholarship is at the heart of what a profession is, then clinical scholarship must be central to the nursing discipline (Boyer, Scholarship reconsidered: priorities of the professoriate. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1990). The discipline’s philosophy, theory and practice are intertwined and as reflected in Boyer’s ideas, scholarship in nursing can come from four scholarly activities: discovery, integration, application, and teaching. The evolution context from first to second to third generation professional doctorate is explored. Further, advanced practice nursing practitioners need to communicate the distinctiveness of their scholarship and contributions to the public with greater clarity and emphatic certainty.

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O’Connor, L. (2019). Doctorate of Nursing Practice: A Conduit for Scholarship in the Realm of Advanced Practice. In: The Nature of Scholarship, a Career Legacy Map and Advanced Practice. Advanced Practice in Nursing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91695-8_5

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