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I'm a critical care nurse from the very beginning. I'm faculty in the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
program. I have a master's degree; I don't have a doctoral degree. Ideally, we'd like
the faculty to be doctorally prepared. We all think of a Ph.D. as having purely a research
focus, that if you want to do research you need a Ph.D. But I find it a little broader
than that. It gives you more opportunity to do research and contribute to the science.
It's also the preferred type of degree if you're going to be in education. If you want
to teach in a school of nursing, at least at a higher-level university, a Ph.D. is going
to be the preferred degree over a D.N.P., at least at this point in time. Looking at
what I'd like to do, I'd really like to combine that clinical and research and education.
So in that regard, the Ph.D. is the way to go for me.