Practicum in Acute Care for the Nurse Practitioner

The practicum in critical/acute care for the nurse practitioner is designed to provide the student with practice experiences to develop skills of assessment, diagnosis, and management of the emergency and critically ill adult. The student has the opportunity to integrate and synthesize theory, clinical research, advanced therapeutics, and decision making in this closely supervised precepted experience. The role of the nurse practitioner is applied in the clinical setting.