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American Journal of Critical Care. 2006;15: 11-12
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LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

To the Editors:

I have just read your editorial, "Doctor of Nursing Practice—MRI or Total Body Scan" (July 2005: 278–281). I find the views presented very relevant to nursing education today. This debate over the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) should be stopped, and current issues in nursing education should be addressed, specifically the issue of "on-line nursing degrees." I do not call this nursing education! On-line degrees have bred "diploma mills," defined by Webster’s dictionary as: "An institution of higher education operating without supervision of a state or professional agency and granting diplomas which are either fraudulent or because of the lack of proper standards worthless." How can one obtain a degree in nursing without doing clinicals with "real patients" and having meaningful face-to-face discussion with professors and colleagues?

Let us as professional nurses officially recognize the BSN as the entry level for a professional nurse. Let the MSN stay as it is. You cannot put the cart before the horse! We must achieve this entry-level goal before we mandate terminal degrees, and we must realize that this "new language DNP" will not give us any better quality of care for our patients.

My MSN is from Florida State University in Tallahassee, year of graduation 1998. I now practice as a part-time nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist for the emergency department. Had I not been educated in the traditional manner, I would never be able to perform the skills and I would not have the competencies that these dual roles require.

Pennye B. Arehart, ARNP, MSN
Jacksonville, Fla





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