81 to receive Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees in UTHSC ceremony
UTHSC College of Nursing offers eight DNP concentrations: Nurse-Midwifery; Nurse-Anesthesia; Family Nurse Practitioner; Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner; Pediatric Acute Care; Pediatric Primary Care; NeoNatal Nurse Practitioner; and Adult-Gerontology Acute Care. (Courtesy UTHSC)
Nurses who earn the Doctor of Nursing Practice work as nurse practitioners who can provide patient-centered health care and solutions to the nation’s primary care shortage.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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