Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Program

Penn's top ranked Gerontology Nurse Practitioner (GNP) program prepares graduates to provide primary care services with an emphasis on improving quality of life for older adults through comprehensive functional, physiologic, and psychosocial assessment and management of health and illness.

Uniquely, the flexibility of Penn's course of study enables students to complete two programs, the Adult Health Nurse Practitioner and Gerontology Nurse Practioner programs, in order to practice across the adult lifespan. 

Faculty members at Penn's Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Program handpick clinical sites for each master's student from a broad array of community-based clinical settings employing best practice models of care. That selection is only a small part of the individualized mentoring between faculty and students that produces a unique educational experience.

These experiences are informed by evidence-based practice models, often developed by cutting-edge research at Penn.