Juanita Gonzalez has been an RN for 7 years. She has become increasingly interested in research, serving on her unit’s evidence-based practice committee and then on her hospital’s nursing research council. She is very interested in the effects of sleep deprivation on milk production in breastfeeding mothers. She is trying to decide between a doctorate of philosophy (PhD) program and a doctorate of nursing practice (DNP) program for her doctoral studies.
1.What are the differences and similarities between these two types of programs?