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I have the privilege of speaking to many different audiences throughout the year; but I always look forward to our school reunion because I enjoy the opportunity to reconnect with long-standing friends as well as make new ones.

The Doctor of Nursing Practice, or DNP, program at Columbia University School of Nursing was among the first in the nation, and in the years since it was established, DNP programs have proliferated at nursing schools across the country. Columbia Nursing’s DNP focus is unique among these programs for its distinctive emphasis on comprehensive clinical care.

The notion of narrative nursing dates back to Florence Nightingale, whose detailed writings about poor conditions in military hospitals during the Crimean War prompted an overhaul of the British army’s health care system. To Churchill, Nightingale’s legacy in narrative nursing can be distilled to a single sentence Nightingale once wrote: “Observation tells us the fact, reflection the meaning of the fact.”