Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner

The nurse practitioner is a skilled health care provider who uses expert clinical judgment and decision making in conducting comprehensive health assessments, making differential diagnoses, and prescribing of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions in the direct treatment of health problems. Nurse practitioners function as care providers, case managers, researchers, consultants, and educators.

Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

Graduates of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner track are eligible to sit for national certification as both an ACNP and as Adult Nurse Practitioner. Acute care nurse practitioners focus on the care of adults with acute illnesses and may practice in the hospital, home, or clinic setting. Acute care nurse practitioners provide expert interventions focused on health promotion, illness prevention, and health care management. They make rounds with and without their collaborative physician, write progress notes and orders, do discharge teaching and follow up with patient referrals and continuing care. Some see patients in the office setting managing the full spectrum of care.

Curriculum

FALL SEMESTER I

SPRING SEMESTER

SUMMER SEMESTER

FALL SEMESTER II

Total classroom: 42 semester hours

Total clinical: 672 clinical hours