The Nurse Practitioner concentration prepares APRNs with the
leadership skills and clinical experience necessary to deliver high quality,
safe, full scale primary care, care coordination, and to improve health
outcomes in community settings. Students may select from two areas of
specialization: Family Nurse Practitioner and Adult/Gerontological Nurse
Practitioner, the latter newly combined to be consistent with the national
consensus model.
The program’s hybrid format provides flexibility for students
throughout the state to pursue a degree while living and working in their
home communities. Beginning with an on-campus orientation to meet
Adult-Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist
with Education Concentration
The program prepares APRNs with the clinical expertise and
professional skills to assume leadership roles in healthcare settings
as advanced practice care providers across the adult lifespan, and as
consultants and educators. In these roles, they lead practice change
innovations, integrate evidence-based practice guidelines, and work in
collaboration with members of the healthcare team to improve patient
outcomes to deliver safe, high quality care.
The program prepares APRNs with the knowledge, judgment and
competence to deliver high quality, safe and effective anesthesia care,
and to assume leadership roles in the practice setting. CRNAs provide
for the patient’s anesthesia needs before, during, and after surgery.
They monitor every important body function and individually modify
the anesthetic to ensure maximum safety and comfort.
CRNAs practice in private and public settings, including hospital
operating rooms, ambulatory surgery centers, labor and delivery,
Many of the NP faculty are appointed in the health profession track, and
both teach and provide NP services. In this way they act as role models in
clinical practice in a wide variety of settings, whic