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Aug 30, 2024
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Graduate Catalog-Handbook 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Graduate Certificate: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
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This program prepares licensed registered nurses, who already have a Master of Science in Nursing degree, for another exciting level of practice—the role of Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. According to the American Nurses Credentialing Center (AACN), the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care nurse practitioner provides health care services to adult patients with complex acute, critical, and chronic health conditions. The Adult-Gerontology Acute Care nurse practitioner provides these services in high-acuity settings that require intensive monitoring and therapeutic intervention. Adult-Gerontology Acute Care nurse practitioners are typically employed in hospital settings, including intensive care, sub-acute care, and emergency care; but, may also be employed in ambulatory, outpatient, and rehabilitative settings to provide population-based care across the healthcare continuum for the purpose of restoring individuals to their maximal health potential. Graduates of the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care nurse practitioner track are prepared to excel in any acute care environment upon graduation from Mount Carmel.
Students graduating from the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner track will be eligible for American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) certification examination for Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse (this examination is under development by ANCC).
Student Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner track, graduates will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Assume advanced nursing roles in clinical practice
- Deliver competent health care to diverse populations within the community
- Use epidemiological, social, and environmental data to draw inferences to effectively assist patients in achieving and/or maintaining optimal health or to stabilize chronic conditions
- Facilitate the use of evidence-based practice in nursing
- Design health promotion and disease prevention clinical programs for individuals and families in acute care settings
- Evaluate nursing practice and health care to produce quality outcomes of evidence-based acute care services throughout the community
- Demonstrate leadership in clinical practice
- Use ethical decision making in the delivery of acute care services for vulnerable populations
- Collaborate with intra and interdisciplinary professionals to achieve quality outcomes in nursing practice
- Promote nursing as a profession and a discipline
- Demonstrates scholarly inquiry through verbal and written communication in clinical scholarship
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Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Certificate curriculum
Direct Care Core: 0-9 credit hours*
*If the following 3 courses were not taken in the previous Master of Nursing degree program, the AGACNP Certificate student must enroll in the Direct Care Core:
Functional Area Core: 26 credit hous
Notes:
- Click here for the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Certificate Plan of Study.
- When completing the preceptored practicum, students must meet the compliance requirements of all agencies.
- Click here for the required gainful employment disclosures for the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Certificate.
Total of 26-35 credit hours / 650 clinical hours
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