You Will Be Prepared.
The Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program prepares graduates to:
- Provide a full scope of care utilizing both independent and collaborative approaches to the adult/gerontology population, including management of acute, critical and/or complex chronic health problems, health promotion, disease prevention, and support for transitional and end-of-life needs
- Integrate ethical principles in decision-making and evaluation of care related to the adult/gerontology population with acute, critical and/or complex chronic health problems
- Coordinate health care through interdisciplinary collaboration with members of the health care team
- Empower and motivate the adult/gerontology population and families to be full participants in their own health care
- Advocate for systems and policies that reduce health disparities, facilitate access to care and address cultural diversity and rural populations
- Assume professional responsibility for maintaining and advancing clinical practice competencies
- Participate in quality assurance and evaluation of health care delivery
- Use and articulate evidence-based research as the basis for practice
- Contribute to existing knowledge through participation in research
- Disseminate evidence to the adult/gerontology population and professionals throughout multiple modalities
