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Nurse practitioners (NPs) are RNs who’ve received additional training, especially in diagnosis and treatment. Current educational standards for NPs require graduation from a master’s degree program. Functioning as primary care providers, NPs have expanded into areas vacated by physicians in their quest for higher paying specialties. An excellent example of one such area is nursing [...]
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If you would like to help others cultivate their passion for nursing, join the “I Care About Nursing” (ICAN) Team!
Everyday nurses influence health and wellness by providing information, care and compassion to patients, clients, students, colleagues, friends and [...]
The Master of Science degree in Family Practice prepares nurses for an advanced practice role with families across the developmental stages of the life span This includes the childbearing and child rearing years, the mid life family and the older adult years.
This program prepares the advanced practice nurse to focus on the management of health [...]
Program Objectives:
At the completion of this program, graduates will be able to:
1. Assume accountability for clinical outcomes and care environment outcomes within a micro system of health care.
2. Anticipate risks to patient safety and intervene appropriately.
3. Use research-based information to provide care and to design and implement system changes.
4. Provide leadership in lateral integration of [...]
The Hunter Bellevue School of Nursing of The City University of New York offers an adult/gerontological nurse practitioner program leading to a Master of Science degree in Nursing. The 42 credit program prepares nurses to assume a leadership role in adult/gerontological nursing and primary care for adults/older adults in the community and in a variety [...]
To prepare for the exam, you will want to think about your knowledge base, skills and experience. The four areas that are tested in the certification exam are recognizing the content outline shown at the American Nurses Credentialing Center website for their certification exams.
The four areas and the approximate percent of questions/items in each area [...]
Interplast Nurse Educator Requirements
1. Three years of current clinical nursing experience, either as a nurse or clinical educator.
2. Current RN license and CPR certification.
3. Two years of nursing education experience including all of the following:
A. Teaching nursing/medical personnel, families, and patients.
B. Teaching in the clinical setting, i.e., the bedside and in the clinic.
C. Teaching theory [...]
Providing high-quality care for more than 1.4 million older adults in the nation’s 16,000-plus nursing homes is the responsibility of RNs in both the nursing home and hospital setting. It’s estimated that the population of older Americans will double by 2030, growing from 31 million to 62 million among people ages 65 to 84 and [...]
The MS-CNS concentration prepares the advanced professional nurse as an advance practice nurse. The CNS addresses health care needs in the three CNS spheres of influence – the patient/client, nurses and nursing practice, and systems and organizations. The dimensions of the CNS role include clinical judgment, clinical inquiry, facilitator of learning, collaboration, systems thinking, advocacy/moral [...]
