MSN Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner at University of Pennsylvania

We prepare acute care nurse practitioners for the management of patients with specialized health care needs. You’ll develop expertise in physical assessment, complex clinical decision making, diagnostic and interventional procedures, prescriptive knowledge, and patient care management across the continuum of acute care services, from critical care to discharge to the patient’s transition back into their community. You’ll have the opportunity to focus in general surgery, internal medicine, cardiology, neurosurgery, oncology, trauma, and many other specialty areas as well as concentrate your work on populations of special interest, such as the underserved or minority health.

Duration: 12 course units  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Philadelphia, PA, United States

What you will study

Requires 12 course units in total. Listed required courses include NURS 6070 Advanced Physiology and Pathophysiology; NURS 6370 Introduction to Research Methods and Design; NURS 6570 Advanced Physical Assessment and Clinical Decision Making; NURS 6080 Advanced Pharmacology and Therapeutics for Nursing Practice; NURS 6700 Principles of Adult Gerontology Acute Care I; NURS 6730 Advanced Clinical Decisions in Adult Gerontology Acute Care.

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