The American Organization of Nurse Executives projected that the healthcare system would be short of 1 million nurses by 2015. They also predicted a national shortage of other health care providers, such as medical doctors, pharmacists, and respiratory care providers. As the number of general practice physicians and critical care physicians decrease across the nation, advanced practice nurses, with a DNP degree can fill the void by caring for patients in a variety of settings. They work primarily in nurse-managed … Read the rest