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Aug 31, 2024
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Graduate Catalog-Handbook 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
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Mount Carmel College of Nursing’s Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program is designed for RN’s who are ready to pursue graduate education that will lead to an acute care focused advanced practice nursing role. 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
- 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
- Facilitate the use of evidence-based practice in nursing
- 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 curriculum
Graduate Core: 13 credit hours
Direct Care Core: 9 credit hours
Functional Area Core: 27 credit hours
Curriculum Plans
Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner students must follow the Full-Time or Part-Time curriculum plans.
Notes:
- NURS 501 OR NURS 503 must be taken as one of the first courses in the program.
- When completing the preceptored practicum, students must meet the compliance requirements of all agencies.
- NURS 598 - Scholarly Manuscript Completion : if the scholarly manuscript is not satisfactorily completed at the time of course completion, students must enroll in NURS 598 (see policy ).
Total of 48 credit hours / 650 clinical hours
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