Overview

Key Features

Students in the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program delivered at New York University are educated to implement their full scope of practice ranging from disease prevention to the diagnosis and treatment of complex medical and mental health diagnoses, to the provision of palliative care. Completion of the Program enables graduates to be licensed and eligible for certification as an AGACNP and to practice in a variety of acute in-patient and outpatient settings.

Goals

Prepare AGACNPs to assume clinical and ethical leadership of patients with acute, chronic, and critical illness.
Guide AGACNP students to provide respectful care, acknowledging the patients’ and families’ needs, values and preferences.
Educate students to critically analyze the best available research to implement high-quality, patient-centered care.
Prescribe pharmacotherapies to improve patient outcomes.

Provide multiple experiences for students to develop, implement and evaluate their decision-making.

Practicum opportunities

AGACNP students complete diverse clinical experiences on medicine services, surgery services, cardiology services, rapid response services and intensive care units, post-anesthesia care units, emergency rooms. In addition, students may be placed in specialty services, such as cardiac catheterization labs, advanced heart failure clinics, and pain management services.

Practicum Opportunities include:

New York University (NYU) Langone Health including Tisch Hospital, Kimmel Pavilion, NYU Langone Orthopedic (LOH) Hospital, NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn; Mount Sinai Hospital (MSH); Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC); New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH)/Weil Cornell Medical Center; North Shore – Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System; Montefiore Medical Center; Maimonides Medical Center

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Research in Nursing
Issues and Trends in Nursing and Health Care
Apn: Pop Focus Care
Advanced Pathophysiology
Clinical Pharmacotherapeutics Across the Lifespan
Advanced Physical Assessment Across the Lifespan

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 18 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-02 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-06-15 00:00:00
Starting 2027-01-21 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-12-01 00:00:00
Starting 2027-05-19 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-02-15 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

51 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

New York City, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

At least one year of clinical nursing experience with adults and older adults is required at the time of application. Critical care experience preferred.
A BS in nursing or BS/BA in a non-nursing field together with an associate's degree in nursing
Minimum GPA of 3.0
NYS nursing license prior to beginning coursework
Prior to entering the specialty courses of a respective nursing master's track, at least one year of full-time clinical experience as a registered nurse is required.
Must have taken a basic statistics course and a basic research course at the undergraduate level

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

57600 USD / year

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Out-of-State

57600 USD / year

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57600 USD / year

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Living costs

New York City

United States

1819 - 3968 USD / month

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