Adult Health Nurse Practitioner Program
FAQs
 
What types of clinical experiences are offered in AHNP Program?
Students in the AHNP Program are involved in clinical practices with patients from late adolescence to older adulthood. The clinical sites are arranged and supervised by our faculty. Many of our Clinical Preceptors are graduates of the AHNP Program working in collaborative practices with nurse practitioners and physicians in the Philadelphia and surrounding areas. Practices are in community-based settings, such as clinics, offices, occupational health, home care, and long-term care.
 
Is it possible to work and go to school?
That depends on a lot of things, e.g., work schedule, personal responsibilities, and school schedule. We encourage full-time students to have a very flexible, light work schedule, especially once they are in the theory-clinical sequence of the program. Part-time students are able to spend more time in work responsibilities.
 
How do I know whether I should be in the Adult Health Nurse Practitioner Program or the Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program?
Consider where you want to practice after graduation. If you wish to work with individual patients and their families in a community-based setting, such as a clinic, office, long-term care, occupational health, or home, then you should be in the Adult Health Nurse Practitioner Program. If however, you’d like to practice in an acute care institution with critically ill patients and their families and be involved in other acute care services, then you should be in the Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program.
 
Does the AHNP Program prepare you to work with older adults?
Many of our students also complete the Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Program to broaden their scope of practice to work with older adults in community settings, such as offices, home care, or long-term care facility. Completion of both programs enables you to become dually certified in both Adult Health and Gerontology by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and eligible to apply for national certification in both specialties.

For questions or to develop an individual plan of study, please contact our faculty.