The nursing industry continues to grow, demanding more nurses in the profession from the Certified Nurse’s Aide, to Licensed Practical Nurse, to Registered Nurse with a Bachelors, then Master’s, and finally a Doctorate Degree, the highest level a nurse can obtain. Nurses are being pushed to higher and higher educational levels due to declining students studying to be doctors. A nurse who holds a Doctorate Degree can diagnose, treat, and prescribe medicine for patients. This nurse who decides to set up his or her practice, as a medical doctor, does not have to have a doctor onsite. However, a doctor must review and sign off on everything that the nurse has done with patients over one week.

Prerequisites

The nurse have earned their master’s degree in nursing. There is a difference in the Doctor of Nursing Practices from the Ph.D., Doctor of Nursing Science, and the Nurse Doctorate Degree. …