Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program

Our alumni obtain positions in a variety of acute care settings. A few of our alumni have agreed to offer a description of the type of position they hold as well as some information about the patients for which they care. 

Jane Cooper is an acute care nurse practitioner for a vascular surgery service primarily responsible for in-patient management of the patients on their service. She collaborates with attending physicians, residents and interns. She is often consulted on patients from other services and summoned to the ambulatory surgery clinic to perform a history and physical examination on a patient scheduled for surgery. Because she works in a teaching hospital, often Jane is the team member that knows what is going on with the patients while other team members rotate on and off service. Jane finds her job rewarding and believes that her patients greatly benefit from her being part of the team.