DNP

Talks about the new Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree that replaces the Advanced Practice Nurse (APN). Not to be confused with the PhD in Nursing. More than a difference of semantics, but inextricably related. One is practice and the other is academic. But I don't know how you can practice without the academic base. No patient who is "alert and oriented x 3" is going to confuse a nurse for being a doctor at bedside. The difference is not in the uniform.

More importantly, how did Dr. Steven Knope (below) pass the GRE or MCAT with an analogy like below?

From NPR: New Degree Creates Doctor Nurses — And Confusion
by Sally Herships

No one wants to badmouth Florence Nightingale, but a new degree for nurses is causing bad blood between doctors and their longtime colleagues. The program confers the title of doctor on nurses, but some in the medical profession say only physicians should call themselves "doctor."

Dr. Steven Knope is a family practitioner in Tucson, Ariz. "If you're on an airline," he jokes, "and a poet with a Ph.D. is there and somebody has a heart attack, and they say 'Is there a doctor in the house?' — should the poet stand up?" Knope laughs. "Of course not."