Prospective Students: Rural-Adult Nurse Practitioner

Rural-Adult Nurse Practitioner

Practice Characteristics/Certifications

Students completing the Rural-ANP curriculum are prepared to:

Conduct comprehensive health assessments, including ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests such as laboratory tests, ECGs, and chest radiographs.
Appraise health risks and behaviors.
Diagnose and manage health problems and disease-related symptoms.
Prescribe and evaluate drugs and treatments.
Coordinate care during setting transitions.
Work independently and collaboratively to enhance access to and quality of care for patients and families through cost-effective, outcome-oriented, risk-appropriate practice.
Assume primary responsibility to promote health; assess and manage common acute and chronic health conditions in adults.
Analyze, articulate, and facilitate resolution of health care issues (economic, societal, legislative, ethical, legal).
Synthesize knowledge and skills in providing advanced nursing care among diverse, multi-cultural, and medically underserved patients with serious illness in all types of health care settings.
Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for advanced practice.
Demonstrate basic competence in utilizing and conducting nursing research.
Develop and use leadership strategies to improve health care.

Graduates earn a Master of Nursing (MN) degree and are eligible to apply for ANCC Adult Nurse Practitioner certification and Washington State license as an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner (ARNP) with prescriptive authority.

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