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Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Gerontology
This 9 semester certificate provides practicing APRN’s (NP’s and CNS’s) the opportunity
to experience an interdisciplinary approach to managing the complex health care needs
of older adults and their families with a specialty focus on culturally sensitive,
evidence based care management strategies that include gerontology pharmacology, physiology
and assessment considerations. A 60 hour interdisciplinary field experience is part
of this certificate program. Students who hold a nurse practitioner certification
without gerontology and wish to obtain “gerontology” certification will be required
to complete an additional 4 semester hour clinical practicum course with a local preceptor
in SARA participating states.
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Careers
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| Certified Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse |
| Practitioner positions in acute care palliative/hospice practices |
| Practitioner positions in primary care and specialty practices |
| Practitioner |
| APRN role in acute care, primary care, long-term care, or community-based palliative/hospice
settings |
Employers
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| Acute, Tertiary Settings, across the adult lifespan and high acuity settings |
| Intensive Care Units |
| Emergency Departments |
| Clinical Decision Units (CDU) |
| Medical Surgical Units |
| Private Employment and Hospital Employee Models |
- Well established education of nurse practitioners as noted by: Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
(ACNP) programs (MSN and Post-MSN certificate) developed in 2007; ACNP with advanced
Hospice and Palliative Care Specialty (ACNP/HPCS) program added in 2008; a transition
to the Adult-Gerontology Specialty implemented in 2013, with the first graduates of
these new specialties in May 2014.
- National certification exam pass rates exceed national pass rates. For 2016, the program
pass rate for first-time test takers was 100%
Fully accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
- Theory faculty are Acute Care Nurse Practitioners/Primary Nurse Practitioners who
are doctorally prepared and active in clinical practice.
- Adjunct faculty are minimally master’s prepared and active in clinical practice.
- Madonna University pioneered offerings of formal higher education in hospice and palliative
care for nurses in advanced practice roles
- Programs provide preparation for the full scope of NP practice in Adult-Gerontology
Acute Care or Primary Care and Adult Advanced Practice Hospice/Palliative Care
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