Practice Doctorate Resource Center

NONPF Perspective

The Clinical Doctorate in Nursing: Future or Fringe?

Friday, November 22, 2002

Please Note: An archived version of this Teleweb Conference WILL NOT be available.

This Teleweb presentation addressed the question:  Is the clinical doctorate the future of nursing or a fringe movement? Lucy Marion and Katherine Crabtree provided an overview of the clinical doctorate movement, including an historical account, current events among leading organizations, and the NONPF Board vision of how to advance new educational paradigms. Diane Viens facilitated discussions among the presenters, consultants, and guests. To gain NP/APN faculty and clinician input about controversial and emerging issues, the presenters conducted on-line polling of the audience with immediate feedback throughout the session. The registrants received the polling questions prior to the Teleweb session, and were asked to respond to selected questions online and to answer the full questionnaire by fax.  We have compiled the results of the online polling and the full questionnaires.

Materials from Teleweb

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• Speaker's slides:
  • Part 1 - Introduction - Lucy Marion
  • Part 2 - Meeting Society's Needs - Katherine Crabtree
  • Part 3 - Issues - Lucy Marion
• The Questionnaire that went to Teleweb registrants.
• Biosketches of the speakers, lists of the NONPF Clinical Doctorate Task Force and the practice consultants and guests that were on the Teleweb.

Teleweb Faculty:

• Diane Viens, DNSc, CFNP, NONPF President
• Lucy Marion, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN, Chair, NONPF Clinical Doctorate Task Force and immediate past president of NONPF
• M. Katherine Crabtree, DNSc., APRN, BC, Chair, NONPF Educational Standards and Guidelines Committee, and member of NONPF Clinical Doctorate Task Force

Consultants from Practice Organizations

• Mary Jo Goolsby, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
• Susan Apold, American College of Nurse Practitioners
• Mary Margaret Gottesmann, National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
• Marianne Shaughnessy, National Council of Gerontological Nurse Practitioners
• Susan Kendig, National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Womens Health

Guests

• Elizabeth Lenz
  Chair, Task Force on the Professional Clinical Doctorate
  American Association of Colleges of Nursing
• Janice Smolowitz
  National Council for Advancement of Primary Care
  Columbia University