These responsibilities require nursing professionals who are as smart and savvy as they are caring and compassionate. At Vanderbilt, we prepare advanced practice nurses for assuming such independent direct care positions as Nurse Practitioner and Nurse-Midwife.
We also prepare nurses for advanced nursing practice through indirect care in roles such as Nurse Informaticist and Nurse Leader Nursing and Health Care Leadership. The Vanderbilt Master's of Science in Nursing degree program includes clinical training; a rigorous, high-quality curriculum; and learning in a research environment that fosters evidence-based education and patient care. Toggle navigation. This RN provides leadership and high-level clinical expertise in a specialty area of medicine for example, community health or geriatrics.
Learn more about Clinical Nurse Specialists. This type of RN provides advanced, comprehensive care to patients. Many NPs enter a population focus, such as family nurse practitioner or psychiatric nurse practitioner. Learn more about Nurse Practitioners. To enter any of the APRN roles, students must complete a graduate-level program.
To be eligible for these programs, students must hold an active RN license and meet the school's criteria for admission.
APRN program courses usually consist of a mix of advanced general nursing classes, along with specialized courses that relate to the role or focus that the student has chosen. Beyond this, a minimum number of supervised clinical hours are also required. Both classroom and online APRN programs are available across the country. Check out the following for more detailed information:.
The core concepts for the advanced nursing practice role are: autonomy in clinical practice, pioneering professional and clinical leadership, expert practitioner and researcher.
To achieve these core concepts the advanced nurse practitioner must develop advanced theoretical and clinical skills, meet the needs of the client, family and the community. Relevance to clinical practice: In a rapidly changing people-centred healthcare environment the advanced nurse practitioner can make an important contribution to healthcare delivery. The challenges ahead are many, as the advanced nurse practitioner requires policy and appropriate educational preparation to practice at advanced level.
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