Program Overview

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Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (MS)

The Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) Program prepares students to provide high-quality, safe, equitable, and evidence-based care for diverse patients across the adult lifespan with chronic, acute, and critical illness. Our students are educated to implement their full scope of practice ranging from disease prevention to the diagnosis and treatment of complex medical and mental health diagnoses, to the provision of palliative care. Completion of the Program enables graduates to be licensed and eligible for certification as an AGACNP and to practice in a variety of acute in-patient and outpatient settings.

Highlights

• Expert AGACNP faculty and preceptors in acute care.
• Innovative teaching strategies designed to develop the AGACNP students’ therapeutic communication techniques, critical thinking, diagnostic reasoning, and decision-making.
• State of the art simulation center - Students participate in 12 acute and critical care simulations, including 6 intra-professional simulations, to cultivate ethical and clinical decision-making.
• Rapid response simulations to promote teamwork, collaboration, and communication in the treatment and management of deteriorating patients.
• Curriculum includes a procedures course, providing multiple opportunities for students to learn and practice procedural skills such as point-of-care ultrasound, central line placement, chest tube insertion, and endotracheal intubation.
• Faculty arrange placements for all AGACNP students in diverse acute care and critical care settings in premier hospitals throughout the New York (NY) and greater NY areas.
• AGACNP students complete 4 different clinical placements in medicine, surgery, cardiology, and critical care.

Goals

• Prepare adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioners (AGACNPs) to assume clinical and ethical leadership of patients with acute, chronic, and critical illness.
• Guide AGACNP students to provide respectful care, acknowledging the patients’ and families’ needs, values and preferences.
• Educate students to critically analyze the best available research to implement high-quality, patient-centered care.
• Prescribe pharmacotherapies to improve patient outcomes.
• Provide multiple experiences for students to develop, implement and evaluate their decision-making.

MS Specialty Sequences

The College of Nursing offers specialty sequences for graduate students in:

• Holistic Nursing
• Palliative Care
• Substance Use Disorders

Practicum Opportunities

• AGACNP students complete diverse clinical experiences on medicine services, surgery services, cardiology services, rapid response services and intensive care units, post-anesthesia care units, emergency rooms. In addition, students may be placed in specialty services, such as cardiac catheterization labs, advanced heart failure clinics, and pain management services.
• Practicum Opportunities include:
  • New York University (NYU) Langone Health including Tisch Hospital, Kimmel Pavilion, NYU Langone Orthopedic (LOH) Hospital, NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn;
  • Mount Sinai Hospital (MSH);
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC);
  • New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH)/Weil Cornell Medical Center;
  • North Shore – Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System;
  • Montefiore Medical Center; Maimonides Medical Center

Admissions

All applicants to our MS programs are required to submit the following documents at the time of application:

1. One (1) transcript from each post-secondary school attended.
2. Resume.
3. A two- to three-page personal statement.
4. At least two (2) letters of recommendation.
5. RN license and registration certificate.

Eligibility

• A BS in nursing or BS/BA in a non-nursing field together with an associate’s degree in nursing
• Minimum GPA of 3.0
• NYS nursing license prior to beginning coursework
• Prior to beginning the adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner master’s program, at least one year of full-time clinical experience as a registered nurse is required.
• Must have taken a basic statistics course and a basic research course at the undergraduate level

Adult Gerontology Acute Care Additional Requirements

• At least one year of clinical nursing experience with adults and older adults is required. Critical care experience preferred.

Program Requirements

The program requires the completion of 51 credits, comprised of the following: Course List

• Core Requirements
  • NURSE-GN 2005: Intro Stats Health Profs (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2303: Research in Nursing (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2041: Issues and Trends in Nursing and Health Care (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2011: Apn: Pop Focus Care (3 credits)
• Advanced Core Requirements
  • NURSE-GN 2050: Advanced Pathophysiology (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2021: Clinical Pharmacotherapeutics Across the Lifespan (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2012: Advanced Physical Assessment Across the Lifespan (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2013: Contemp Clin Pract Roles (3 credits)
• Population Component
  • NURSE-GN 2036: Health Promotion across the Adult-Older Adult Lifespan (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2034: Common Health Prob Across the Adult Lifespan for Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioners (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2030: Geriatric Syndromes (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2060: Mental Health Across the Lifespan (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2116: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care II (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2117: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Practicum II (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2123: Diagnosis and Procedures I (1.5 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2118: APN: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care III (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2119: APN: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Practicum III (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2124: Diagnosis and Procedures II (1.5 credits)

Sample Plan of Study

Plan of Study Grid

• 1st Semester/Term:
  • NURSE-GN 2005: Intro Stats Health Profs (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2303: Research in Nursing (3 credits)
• 2nd Semester/Term:
  • NURSE-GN 2050: Advanced Pathophysiology (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2011: Apn: Pop Focus Care (3 credits)
• 3rd Semester/Term:
  • NURSE-GN 2012: Advanced Physical Assessment Across the Lifespan (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2060: Mental Health Across the Lifespan (3 credits)
• 4th Semester/Term:
  • NURSE-GN 2021: Clinical Pharmacotherapeutics Across the Lifespan (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2036: Health Promotion across the Adult-Older Adult Lifespan (3 credits)
• 5th Semester/Term:
  • NURSE-GN 2034: Common Health Prob Across the Adult Lifespan for Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioners (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2041: Issues and Trends in Nursing and Health Care (3 credits)
• 6th Semester/Term:
  • NURSE-GN 2051: Geriatric Syndromes for the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2013: Contemp Clin Pract Roles (3 credits)
• 7th Semester/Term:
  • NURSE-GN 2116: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care II (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2117: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Practicum II (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2123: Diagnosis and Procedures I (1.5 credits)
• 8th Semester/Term:
  • NURSE-GN 2118: APN: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care III (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2119: APN: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Practicum III (3 credits)
  • NURSE-GN 2124: Diagnosis and Procedures II (1.5 credits)

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the program, graduates will:

1. Demonstrate critical thinking and decision-making based on a synthesis of appropriate theories and evidence from nursing and other sciences as related to the roles of nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives, and/or roles as educators, administrators, informaticists, or clinical research nurses.
2. Perform role competencies defined by national professional organizations for nurse practitioners, or nurse-midwifery roles and/or roles as educator, administrator, informaticist, or clinical research nurse.
3. Demonstrate evidence-informed decision-making related to a specific advanced practice role.
4. Advocate for universal access to quality and cost-effective healthcare for all populations across the lifespan.
5. Collaborate as members of interprofessional teams to achieve high-quality and cost-effective health outcomes.
6. Demonstrate advanced professional practice role competencies related to educational, leadership, policy, organizational, and management outcomes.
7. Demonstrate ethical decision-making in the context of personal and professional codes and guidelines.
8. Articulate a personal and professional philosophy about the Advanced Practice Nursing role that reflects patient-centered care, respect for diversity, cultural values, and a commitment to the preservation of human rights based on professional standards of practice, scope of practice, and respective professional codes of ethics.
9. Evaluate patient outcomes in relation to improving quality and patient safety.
10. Demonstrate effective written, verbal, and technological communication skills that influence the achievement of professional and health-related client outcomes in organizational, legislative, and policy settings.

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