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The Emergency Nurse Practitioner program prepares nurses to provide health care in emergency settings - evaluating, managing, treating and preventing unexpected illness and injury. In addition, graduates are prepared to provide health care to patients presenting to emergency settings for primary health care needs. The program builds on family nurse practitioner preparation as Emergency Nurse Practitioners are often required to manage patients across the life span. Graduates of this program are eligible for certification as a family nurse practitioner from the American Nurses Credentialing Center or the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. In addition, Emergency Nurse Practitioner students learn to perform clinical procedures commonly used in emergency settings such as basic and advanced suturing, joint injection, slit lamp examinations, and splinting and casting.
The program is 4 semesters in length with a total of 55 academic semester hours of coursework. At the completion of the program, students have over 700 clock hours of supervised clinical experiences in areas such as women's health and pediatrics, family practice, "fast track" non-acute emergency settings, and high acuity emergency settings.
Clinical sites include established sites for the family nurse practitioner program as well as emergency departments of Grady Memorial Hospital, Emory University Hospital, Emory Crawford Long Hospital, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Eggleston, Scottish Rite, and Hugh Spaulding. Additional emergency settings within the Atlanta metropolitan area are used, as necessary, to maximize students' clinical experiences.
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