Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Track
The Acute Care Nurse Practitioner track prepares graduates in advanced practice nursing to provide collaborative patient management in a variety of acute and critical care settings. Students take the basic core advanced practice courses of pathophysiology, health assessment and diagnostic reasoning, pharmacotherapeutics, theory and research, ethics and policy.
The program consists of 51 or 53 credit hours with an emphasis on stabilization and restorative care of acute and critically ill patients in a variety of settings. Practice sites include high-acuity care with patient populations that require complex monitoring and therapeutics, as well as vigilant high-intensity nursing. It is highly recommended that prospective students have some prior experience in acute and/or critical care nursing.
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner graduates are eligible for national certification through the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
For more information, contact Dr. Rosalyn Reischman at reisch@nursing.ufl.edu or call (904) 244-5175.
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