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NURSE
PRACTITIONER
- Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
The Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
(ACNP) Program prepares nurse practitioners to function as
generalist, principal providers of care for adults with common
episodic/chronic health problems across the continuum of acute
care services. In addition, Pitt's ACNP program includes a
focus in a selected clinical emphasis: cardiopulmonary, critical
care, oncology, trauma & emergency preparedness (clinical
emphasis) or directed study. The directed clinical emphasis
allows the students to design a course around a particular
area of interest (i.e., internal medicine, general surgery).
The ACNP is prepared to assume responsibility for promoting,
maintaining and restoring health to adults who are acutely
or critically ill. ACNP's also participate in research and
provide leadership in mobilizing health services.
- Adult Nurse Practitioner
The Adult Nurse Practitioner (ANP) is prepared as a generalist, principal
provider of primary health care to adults. In this clinician role, the
ANP assumes responsibility for promoting, maintaining, and restoring
health, including the identification of health risks, the promotion
of wellness, and the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic illness.
- Family
Nurse Practitioner
The Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) is prepared as a generalist, principal
provider of primary health care. In this clinician role, the FNP assumes
responsibility for: promoting, maintaining, and restoring health to
individuals across the life span, identification of health risks, promotion
of wellness diagnosis and management of acute and chronic illness. The
Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program offers both full-time and part-time
study on the main campus in Pittsburgh and on the Bradford and Johnstown
branch campuses.
- Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
The Neonatal Nurse Practioner Program (NNP) prepares nurse practioners who manage
the health care of high-risk infants, their families and children up to 2 years of age. This expanded role is performed in collaboration with neonatologists and other pediatric clinicians. The program enables its graduates to assume leadership roles as practitioners in a variety of clinical settings including intensive care nurseries of various levels, newborn nurseries and high-risk follow-up clinics. The program also prepares students to participate in research.
- Pediatric
Nurse Practitioner
The Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program (PNP) prepares nurses for expanded
roles
as primary care providers of health care to children and adolescents.
The purpose of
the program is to provide students with course work and clinical experiences
related
to health promotion, child development, developmental and health assessment,
and
the management of well, acutely ill, and chronically ill children and
adolescents in
ambulatory and subspecialty settings.
- Psychiatric
Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
The Psychiatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (PPCNP) program prepares
principal providers of primary health care who treat adult psychiatric
clients in a variety of settings on both an episodic and continuous
basis.
Updated:
June 3, 2008
Email: cmh1@pitt.edu |
