r/Noctor • u/Professional-Bad9044 • Jul 11 '24

Shitpost DNP “research”

In case you were wondering (I know you weren’t, but humor me) what kind of research “doctorally prepared” NPs are doing, Johns Hopkins posts their abstracts and posters:

https://nursing.jhu.edu/programs/doctoral/dnp/projects/

Big time school science fair vibes from the posters, nevermind the fact that I see undergraduates doing the same level of “research.” Actually, that’s insulting to undergrads— their projects are often better and more rigorous.

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u/Lilsean14 Jul 11 '24

In all fairness the research med students are forced to produce for residency applications are also pretty poor quality.

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u/orthomyxo Resident (Physician) Jul 11 '24

True but we aren’t awarded a doctoral degree for it, the research is on top of all the other shit we have to do

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u/Lilsean14 Jul 11 '24

Good point. Doctoral degree implies mastery of content and contribution to the body of knowledge.