Dnp Prepared Nurse Role: Please provide the assignment brief or article content

• Review this Week’s Learning Resources, paying special attention to the degree requirements for completing the Walden DNP and AACN’s The Essentials.
• Reflect on your personal motivations and goals in pursuing the DNP degree.
• Consider the expectations and role of a nurse with a practice doctorate and how they may differ from that of a nurse with a research doctorate.
• Reflect on any previous experiences you have had in addressing a gap in practice or a practice change within an organization.
• Consider what it means, as a DNP-prepared nurse, to address an organization’s quality improvement needs by attending to a gap in practice or implementing a practice change.

Post the following:

• A brief explanation of your personal motivations and goals in pursuing the DNP degree.
• A description of the expectations and role of a nurse with a practice doctorate and how they may differ from those of a nurse with a research doctorate.
• A description of how, as a DNP-prepared nurse, you hope to address an organization’s quality improvement needs by attending to a gap in practice or implementing a practice change. Include any previous experiences you have had in addressing a gap in practice or a practice change within an organization.

Note: Your posts should be a substantial (500 words minimum), supported with scholarly evidence from your research and/or the Learning Resources, and properly cited using APA Style. Personal anecdotes are acceptable as part of a meaningful post but cannot stand alone as the entire post.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ posts.

Respond to at least two of your colleagues, on different days, by offering one of the following:

• An additional expectation or role of a DNP-prepared nurse that they did not mention
• An additional difference between the expectations and role of a practice nurse and a research nurse that they did not mention

Note: Your responses to colleagues should be substantial (250 words minimum), supported with scholarly evidence from your research and/or the Learning Resources, and properly cited using APA Style. Personal anecdotes are acceptable as part of a meaningful response but cannot stand alone as a response. Your responses should enrich the initial post by supporting and/or adding a fresh viewpoint and be constructive, enhancing the learning experience for all students.

Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights that you have gained because of your colleagues’ comments.