Monday, December 22, 2025

Professionalization Crisis in Advanced Nursing Education: Competency-Based Frameworks and the Bifurcation of the DNP

Professionalization Crisis in Advanced Nursing Education: Competency-Based Frameworks and the Bifurcation of the DNP
The environment of advanced nursing education is in the midst of a radical structural change. The move to a model based on Competency-Based Education (CBE) (formalized by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) in the 2021 Essentials) in place of traditional, credit-based curricula …