A medical emergency is cresting in Indiana and beyond. The number of physicians available in the United States isn’t keeping pace with the number of people needing care or who will need care in the ...

Graduates of the DNP Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) Specialty are prepared for advanced nursing practice in a variety of acute and critical care settings. As advanced acute ...

Graduates of the DNP Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (PNP-AC) Specialty are prepared for advanced nursing practice across the continuum of care settings with populations of infants, children ...

Acute care happens when an adult or elderly person needs short-term care in a hospital or nursing home due to an illness like pneumonia, which can cause more complications. It’s called the Adult ...

Achieving better retention and improving the acute-care pediatric NP (ACPNP) experience will be key in sustaining NP growth in this setting. Surveys of NP job satisfaction show high marks for NP ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The University of Indianapolis is launching the Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program this fall to address the growing demand for acute care nurse practitioners ...

Completing an online nurse practitioner program puts current registered nurses (RNs) on track to a higher-paying career. Nurse practitioners (NPs) are advanced practice nurses who focus their careers ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — ECU’s College of Nursing and ECU Health are launching an adult gerontology acute care nurse practitioner program. It will prepare more specialized nurse practitioners in ...

In 2024, nurse practitioner education programs made national news over their education practices. Specifically, critics were concerned that NPs were not receiving the necessary education to maintain ...

Diane Smith, right, graduate program director of the UIndy School of Nursing, oversees a nursing student in a simulation exercise. Smith says nurses are the captain of a patient’s caregiving team.