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Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

The Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) program prepares registered nurses to improve outcomes of acutely and critically ill patients and their families.

Phot of teacher and studentThe Program:

  • combines advanced critical care knowledge from the physiological and psychosocial sciences
  • empowers graduates to integrate evidence-based practice, alleviate patient and family suffering, and facilitate ethical decision making
  • provides opportunities for students to learn from specialists in a wide range of practice settings
  • offers clinical placements arranged in the Washington, D. C. metropolitan area
  • is 40 credit hours, 600 clinical hours
  • prepares graduates to take the ACNP exam for board credentialing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
  • offers a Post-Masters option

Sample Curricula

More Information

Program Director: Karen S. Kesten, MSN, APRN, CCRN, PCCN, CCNS

For more information, contact Michelle Blancas at (202) 687-2252 or by e-mail at mdb64@georgetown.edu.

 

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