What is the difference between NP and DNP?

[ajhill00]

I was looking into future possibilities through Arizona State University and noticed that all their NP programs are "DNP". Does this mean you get the title of Dr. once you get this degree vs the NP degrees?

I have a long ways to go, but I can't find the answer to this anywhere and it's confusing.

Thanks,

Amber

[Jstand]

Facts? Haha. You crack me up with your ignorant statements. You mean like nurses cry about physician egos, physician incomes, physicians standing in their way to complete takeover of medicine, etc? You mean like how nurses can't comprehend how little of medicine they know but still want to practice independently? You mean like you guys can't think when it comes to furthering Mundinger's BS and pretending to be physicians? If so, sure I guess you can call it crying.

I also find it funny that you're extrapolating to a population (med students) based on what a few posters have written (of which, only one is a med student, wowza) while telling me that you can't extrapolate to a population without a representative sample. Hypocrisy, thy name is you. How can I trust that you know stats when you make such blatantly ignorant statements?

Haha, haha - is that your clown impression? If you aren't a med student or a physician, then what exactly is it that you do? Why are you so insulted by my observations about physician's obvious disgruntledness and unappreciative behavior? Who are you calling you guys? I'm not a nurse. Nobody is pretending to be a physician. Call it what you will, but what Mundinger is furthering is the future of healthcare and it comes in the form of independently practicing nurse practitioners.

I'm not extrapolating anything. I have never met a physician or a med student that didn't cry about their student loans. None of my arguments are ignorant. Proof positive is that you can't refute a single one. I do know stats, I have built a career on them. Don't try to argue with an expert. Go back to talking with your statistically novice med student friends.

[dgenthusiast]

Haha, haha - is that your clown impression? If you aren't a med student or a physician, then what exactly is it that you do? Why are you so insulted by my observations about physician's obvious disgruntledness and unappreciative behavior? Who are you calling you guys? I'm not a nurse. Nobody is pretending to be a physician. Call it what you will, but what Mundinger is furthering is the future of healthcare and it comes in the form of independently practicing nurse practitioners.

I'm not extrapolating anything. I have never met a physician or a med student that didn't cry about their student loans. None of my arguments are ignorant. Proof positive is that you can't refute a single one. I do know stats, I have built a career on them. Don't try to argue with an expert. Go back to talking with your statistically novice med student friends.

I've never met a physician or a med student who has "cried" about anything. So who's right? Me or you? I'm going to go with me. If you're such an expert at stats, you should know that anecdotal evidence is pretty useless in extrapolating to populations. If you're such an expert at stats, how can you claim that there's any evidence that midlevels provide equivalent care as physicians? It'd be pretty bad if the future of healthcare involves midlevels practicing with full independence everywhere.

I'll go back to talking to my statistically novice med student friends when you go back to talking to your wannabe-physician friends. Sound like a good deal?

PS. Are you mbreaz1's alternate account perchance? You sound just like him/her.

[sirI, MSN, APRN, NP]

Since the APNs and Physicians/Med-Students cannot seem to debate without resorting to name-calling, stooping low below the belt and just being down-right unprofessional, this thread is closed.

Ya'll single-handedly finally got this thread shut down.