NU631 Week 1 | Nursing in Health Care - Regis university

Question 9According to the Blake (2016) article, Yes, nurses do research, and it’s improving patient care, there is a growing number of nurses getting PhDs and doing research, according to a 2014 survey by American Association of Colleges of Nursing AACN). All of the answer choices are true except: a.The survey found a significant growth in research-focused doctoral programs (i.e., PhD, DNS), which climbed to 134 programs in 2014. b.Enrollment in PhD nursing programs increased by 3.2 percent over the previous year with 5,290 students enrolled in 2014. c.Enrollment in nursing programs in California, Nebraska, and Vermont drastically declined in the past 10 years. . There has not been a decline in nursing enrollment in these states over the past 10 years. In the United States, there is a push for there to be an increased volume of nurse researchers who are doctorally-prepared. The number of doctoral-prepared nurses has been growing over the past couple of decades. d.Since 2004 when the DNP movement began to take shape, enrollment in research-focused doctoral programs has increased by 53.8 percent.