Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program
The Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program prepares you to diagnose and treat adult and older adult patients in acute care settings.
Build the clinical judgment, technical expertise, and leadership skills to care for critically ill and medically complex adult and older adult patients across high-acuity environments. This program equips you to assess rapidly changing conditions, collaborate with interprofessional teams, and make evidence-based decisions that improve outcomes in today’s most demanding care settings.
About the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP specialty
As an adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner, deliver advanced nursing care to adult/older adult patients to help restore health, prevent complications, and navigate patients and their families across acute care settings.
Nurse practitioners in this specialty help care for adult or older adult patients who are acutely ill or have conditions requiring complex chronic specialty care. Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NPs typically practice in ICUs (cardiac, medical, surgical, trauma, neuromedicine), hospital inpatient floors, and outpatient specialty care clinics.
Specialize as an adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner by applying to the master’s degree program. We also offer the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner specialty as an Advanced Certificate. Explore our specialty pathways below.
AGACNP Master's curriculum
AGACNP Advanced Certificate
Meet the specialty director
Beth Palermo, DNP, RN, ANP-BC, ACNP-BC
Specialty Director, Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program
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