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
Rockhurst University’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, Rockhurst University 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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