Johns Hopkins Accelerated Acute Care NP

[NurseKJ]

Hey everyone,

Has anyone applied, enrolled, or graduated from JH's accelerated acute care program? On their website, as long as your ANP,FNP, or GNP, you only have 3 required courses. It sounds too good to be true. Any thoughts?

thanks,

Nurse KJ

[Corey Narry, MSN, RN, NP]

How many credits does each course involve and how long would it take to complete the 3 courses? The certification boards for ACNP require at least 500 faculty-supervised hours of clinicals in acute care in order to be eligible to sit for the exam. However, I don't necessarily think the program is too good to be true only because most ANP, GNP, and FNP programs already include the core NP courses that these programs share in common (including the required trio of Advanced Health Assessment, Advanced Patho, and Advanced Pharm). The challenge is in how this program could squeeze the required ACNP didactics and clinicals in a given length of time. I am assuming that with the amount of information and clinical hours required, this program will typically run for at least three semesters realistically.

[Corey Narry, MSN, RN, NP]

I just checked the JHU website. The accelerated ACNP program is offered only to certified FNP's, ANP's, and GNP's who are already employed in acute care specialties as a nurse practitioner (i.e., hospital in-pt units, ICU's, ER's). I am assuming this program is JHU's response to Maryland's requirement that only Acute Care trained NP's work in acute care settings and will allow as little time possible for transitioning towards Acute Care certification in those NP's affected by the new rules.

[NurseKJ]

Juan,

Thanks for your input. I did not interrupt it that way, but that makes sense. I have requested info from the school. I will let you know when I find something out.

thanks!