Focus and advance your skills by caring for patients who are at their most vulnerable while also progressing in your career with an online Master of Science in Nursing–Adult-Gerontology Acute Care (MSN-AGACNP) degree.
Become an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner for Adults and Older Adults
91³Ô¹ÏÍø’s online MSN-AGACNP program provides:
- 100% online coursework in addition to clinical hours
- Flexibility with the option to choose to study full- or part-time
- Delivery by the highly respected Saint Luke's College of Nursing and Health Sciences
- Full clinical placement services provided
- Transformative training to develop skills and individualized treatment plans to care for adults and older adults, in a variety of settings, with critical and chronic health conditions
- Opportunity to meet the growing need for nurse practitioners in this specialized area of acute care
Guided by Jesuit values, 91³Ô¹ÏÍø prepares advanced practice nurses to care for the needs of the whole person through rigorous academics, rich and varied clinical experiences, and a spirit of inquiry and reflection.
Rockhurst Nursing Learning Outcomes
- Practice safe, effective, holistic, and client/family-centered nursing with diverse individuals, families, and populations.
- Consistently demonstrate professionalism and leadership.
- Collaborate with other disciplines and organizations to develop interventions and strategies that optimize client outcomes.
- Synthesize multiple ways of knowing to inform practice, make clinical judgments and creatively transform knowledge to provide humanistic, quality client-centered care with tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity.
- Use principles of quality improvement, evidence-based practice, health care policy, and cost-effectiveness to enhance client outcomes, and participate in opportunities to engender change.
RU Nursing Program Goals
- Prepare the graduate for the role of the professional nurse.
- Provide an environment of trust, student engagement, and academic support. Provide high-quality nursing education.
- Promote a culture of safety.
- Integrate the students into clinical practice and transition the students into nursing culture.
- Increase the diversity of the student population with an emphasis on cultural awareness.
- Be a leader in NCLEX board pass rate for the region.
- Provide population-focused education to produce graduates that provide efficient, effective health care.
- Create an innovative, cutting-edge environment for nursing students in this fast-changing field of health care.
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