Adult-Gerontology Acute Care CNS + NP
Preparing students to be advanced practice nurses providing care to acute and chronically ill adults and as champions who use evidence-based practice and mentoring to improve units, systems, and patient outcomes.
BSN to DNP students who choose the dual Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Clinical Nurse Specialist + Nurse Practitioner specialty tracks as their area of focus complete all requirements of the AGACNP and AGCNS tracks, alongside their DNP coursework, and emerge from the program prepared for the wide-ranging challenges and opportunities of a profession as both team and unit leaders who mentor others and use evidence-based change to drive practice and as expert clinicians and caregivers in whatever healthcare environment they choose.
- full-time program only
- In-person class about 1x/month with the balance of learning completed online
- rich preparation for and eligibility to take the adult-gerontology acute care CNS certification exam administered by AACN or ANCC and the adult-gerontology acute care NP certification exam administered by AACN or ANCC
- Clinical experiences and faculty affiliations at UVA Health and beyond, and guidance in finding clinical placements with qualified preceptors
- Experience in the School's INASCL-endorsed clinical simulation learning center
- Guaranteed admission for UVA School of Nursing alumni
- Application deadline: January 5
The dual track plan of study is a demanding curriculum with implications for licensure, certification, and credentialing in one’s career as an advanced practice nurse. Successful dual track students typically do not work while concurrently attending school. BSN to DNP students who seek a dual AGAC CNS + NP are required to talk with the director of advanced practice about suitability and alignment with their personal goals.
The ACACNS + NP specialty track is available only as as master's degree or as a specialty area for students enrolled in the BSN to DNP pathway program
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Nurses across the School's advanced practice specialty areas, including its MSN specialties, post-master's certificates, and DNP program pathways, earn clinical hours with qualified, highly-experienced mentor nurses, at sites across the Charlottesville-Albemarle area, central Virginia, the commonwealth, and the mid-Atlantic region, at sites including:
- Addiction Allies, LLC
- Bon Secours Blackstone Family Practice
- Bon Secours Patterson Avenue Family Practice
- Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital
- Capitol Pediatrics, PC
- Carilion Clinic Family Medicine - Brambleton
- Carilion Roanoke Memorial (Clinic & Hospitalists)
- Charlottesville Integrated Psychiatry, LLC
- Children's Hospital a.k.a. CNMC
- CVHS - Buckingham
- CVHS - Southern Albemarle
- Family Medicine of Albemarle
- Inova Fairfax Hospital - Inova Health System
- Inova Health System
- KidMed Urgent Care
- Mental Fitness Matters, PLLC
- Old Dominion University Student Health Services
- Planned Parenthood
- Raphine Medical Associates
- Revolution Healthcare LLC
- Sentara Cardiology Specialists
- Sentara Family & Internal Med Physicians - Hampton
- Sentara Family Medicine - Virginia Beach
- Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital
- Sentara Norfolk General Hospital
- Sentara Obici Hospital
- The Pediatric Center - VCC Main Office
- UNC Medical Center (Neurosciences Hospital)
- UVA Child and Family Psychiatry
- UVA Child Development & Rehabilitation (was KCRC)
- UVA Children's Hospital
- UVA Developmental Pediatrics Clinic
- UVA Family Medicine Stoney Creek
- UVA Health Culpeper Medical Center
- UVA Heart and Vascular Center Fontaine
- UVA HIV Clinic
- UVA Infectious Diseases Clinic
- UVA Medical Center
- UVA Memory and Aging Care Clinic
- UVA Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery Clinic
- UVA Midlife & Gynecologic Specialties Northridge
- UVA OB/GYN Outpatient Clinic
- UVA Pediatric Hematology/Oncology(Battle Building)
- UVA Pediatric Neurology and Epilepsy Clinic
- UVA Primary Care Locust Grove
- UVA Primary Care Riverside
- UVA School of Nursing Clinical Simulation Learning Center (CSLC)
- UVA Student Health and Wellness Center
- UVA Teen and Young Adult Health Center
- UVA Transplant Center
- UVA University Medical Associates (UMA) Clinic
- VCU CHoR - Hematology and Oncology Clinic
- VCU Student Health Services
- VCU Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
- Veterans Affairs, Richmond, VA (McGuire)
- Virginia Hospital Center Arlington Health System
- Virginia Skin Medical and Cosmetic Dermatology
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