DNP required soon?

[deadsoul]

"The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) has recently released a position statement calling for the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree to be the terminal degree awarded for advanced practice nurses."

I've been reading some articles about the recent changes to the terminal degree for a CRNA. Does this basically mean that by 2015 many CRNA programs will be DNP instead of the Masters? What will happen to all those MSN program grads...will they have to go back for the DNP? Thanks in advance for any input.

[swift125]

My financial planning group just had a dinner meeting and since we are a mixed group of providers (almost all with a medical or academic degree and work in the same large university med center)...I posed the question: "should anyone in our hospital who is not a physician introcuce themselves to a patient as "doctor"? Our group includes MD's, nurses with Ph.D's, PharmD's, audiologists, dentists, psychologists etc. About 50 or so professionals and everyone agreed that only physicians should introduce themselves as doctors. Nobody disagreed and this group will argue about anything. Even the one CRNA-DNP whom I love to argue with agreed that she would never introduce herself to a patient as "doctor". She's a nurse.