Alot of what I believe you are seeing is SDN and other such sites. You would do well to remember that these are students and they have no real concept of how it really operates in the real world. I have, over the last few weeks read all, and I mean all, of the posts on SDN about DNP and nurse practitioners. My take away from this experience is that they are mostly younger and insecure people who are being wound up by a vocal few with dis-information and then turned loose on the intarwebs. In other words just like everything you read on a internet forum, it has little resemblance to the real world.