Adult Health NP can apply for ACUTE Care Certific. Exam?

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Specializes in ICU, Cardiac Cath/EPS Labs.

From a related thread, I believe the crucial question is now:

"Can the graduate of an Adult Health NP Master's apply for the ACUTE Care Certific. Exam (ACNP) of the ANCC?" I have researched AllNurses.com and scoured the ANCC's website: but no apparent answer---may try calling the ANCC, but may just get a computer-voice-mail account. Thanks.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

No, you need to complete an ACNP program in order to complete the ACNP exam.

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What would make you think that if you have graduated from an ANP program that you can sit for ACNP boards? That would be no different than a FNP wanting to sit for ACNP boards.

Even though there is some overlap, ANP, FNP, and ACNP are not the same specialties.

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Specializes in ICU, Cardiac Cath/EPS Labs.
What would make you think that if you have graduated from an ANP program that you can sit for ACNP boards? That would be no different than a FNP wanting to sit for ACNP boards.

Even though there is some overlap, ANP, FNP, and ACNP are not the same specialties.

I have heard that many Adult Health NPs are in fact hired by hospitals to work in acute and even critical-care settings AND I have RN experience as a critical-care nurse.....I guess this is part of the ongoing difficulty with poorly-defined scope-of-practice boundaries for NPs--along with the fact that we deal with 50 different licensing agencies (plus D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands)....you gotta be a lawyer to understand all this stuff.....Thanks.

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Specializes in M/S, MICU, CVICU, SICU, ER, Trauma, NICU.
I have heard that many Adult Health NPs are in fact hired by hospitals to work in acute and even critical-care settings AND I have RN experience as a critical-care nurse.....I guess this is part of the ongoing difficulty with poorly-defined scope-of-practice boundaries for NPs--along with the fact that we deal with 50 different licensing agencies (plus D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands)....you gotta be a lawyer to understand all this stuff.....Thanks.

I think you heard wrong.

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Specializes in ICU, Cardiac Cath/EPS Labs.
I think you heard wrong.

Actually, I read an article in Advance for NPs that about 9% of NPs work in the ICU, but only half of those have the Acute Care Certification---apparently some states have scope of practice for Adult and Family NPs that encompasses critical-care stages of the health continuum. Anyone have any information regarding this? Thanks.

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I am an FNP and I work in an ICU in NYC, so yes what you heard is true.

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