MSN-AGPCNP Online Program (BSN to AGPCNP)

Program Overview

The MSN-AGPCNP program prepares nurses to become Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioners (AGPCNPs). The 20-month program includes 48 credit hours of core graduate, direct care, and specialty courses. Graduates are eligible for AGPCNP certification and can work in various healthcare settings, managing patients' long-term healthcare needs. The average salary for nurse practitioners is $124,680 per year.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Program content: The MSN-AGPCNP degree program prepares nursing students going back to school with the skills and knowledge to apply for certification as an AGPCNP.
• Program structure: The program consists of 48-credit hours, including core graduate courses, specialty courses, and clinical courses.
• Course schedule: Classes start on May 6th.
The program length is 20 months.
• Individual modules with module descriptions:

Core Graduate Courses

• HA 610 - Health Policy and Management: This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to guide students in evaluating healthcare policy issues that impact decision making and outcomes in healthcare.
• NU 500 - Theoretical Foundations for Nursing: This course provides students with the basis for understanding, constructing, formulating, applying, and evaluating theory.
• NU 525 - Technology and Nursing Informatics in Advanced Practice: This course provides an overview of the integration of technology and nursing informatics in various healthcare environments.
• NU 530 - Organizational Systems and Behaviors: This course examines organizations from a systems perspective, addressing concepts of leadership, motivation, and behavior.
• NU 560 - Research Methods and Evidence-Based Practice: This course will introduce research methods and designs, knowledge-based research techniques, evidence-based practice, outcome evaluation, and evaluation of research processes.

Direct Care Courses

• NU 610 - Advanced Health Assessment: This course is an examination of the process of holistic assessment (physical, psychosocial, and cultural) of individuals across the lifespan.
• NU 621 - Advanced Pathophysiology: This course examines scientific concepts of pathophysiology essential to diagnostic reasoning and clinical management of common disease states.
• NU 636 - Advanced Pharmacology: This course is designed to advance the student's knowledge of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacotherapeutics in the management of health and disease states.

Specialty Courses

• NU 580 - Health Promotion Across the Life Span: This course presents an array of clinical case studies that give the graduate student the opportunity to assess and intervene in healthcare problems across their lifespan at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of healthcare.
• NU 611 - Clinical Decision-Making: This course is an examination of the processes applicable to clinical decision making.
• NU 626 - Roles for Nurse Practitioners: This course examines the expanded roles of the advanced practice nurse in various primary care settings.
• NU 641 - Women's Health for the Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner: This course focuses on integrating theoretical knowledge, evidence-based guidelines and contemporary practice in the assessment and management of health and disease states specific to women across the adult lifespan in the primary care settings.
• NU 661 - Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner I: This course focuses on introducing theoretical knowledge, evidence-based guidelines and contemporary practice in the assessment and management of health and disease states across the adult lifespan in the primary care settings.

Careers:

• Opportunities for AGPCNPs include managing patients’ long-term healthcare needs in a variety of healthcare settings like outpatient care, long-term care facilities, and physician offices.
• According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), nurse practitioners earn an average salary of $124,680 per year ($59.94 per hour).