When Vernon Langford sees patients, he typically wears a white lab coat with his title—"Dr."—and his credentials as a nurse practitioner stitched on the front. "My credentials are on any jackets I ...

DALLAS — Baylor University's online Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Nurse-Midwifery track recently jumped to No. 16 in U.S.

As director of the doctor-of-nursing-practice program at Robert Morris University, I feel compelled to reply to “A New Degree and Exam Create ‘Doctor Nurses,’ Irking Physicians” (The Chronicle, ...

CLINTON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) has given Stage Two approval for three Doctor ...

Who gets to call themselves "Doctor"? It's a question that goes to the heart of trust in the medical profession, given the weight the title carries. And now it's the subject of a federal lawsuit, as ...

Florida legislators recently passed legislation to prevent advanced practice nurses in Florida with doctorates from using the honorific “doctor.” The state House and Senate bills proposed that nurses ...

Rainey Michael always knew she wanted to pursue her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree to make a difference in preventative care for vulnerable populations. With her plans to advance her ...

Arlene Wright is a doctor, but she doesn’t want people to call her one. “I usually tell my patients ‘your majesty’ or ‘your highness’ is fine,” she said. Wright has been a nurse for more than 20 years ...