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Acute
Care Nurse Practitioner
Acute care nurse practitioners care for acutely and critically ill adults.
As members of a multidisciplinary health care team, they work in
intensive care units and hospital units, emergency departments,
specialty clinics, and specialty physicians’ offices. They focus on
assessment, diagnosis, and management of acute health problems, and
provide tertiary restorative and preventive care to patients and their
families.
Adult
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Adult clinical nurse specialists provide advanced clinical care, patient
and staff education, collaborate with other health care professionals
throughout the system to improve quality of care, serve as consultants
for complex health care problems, and design innovative, evidence-based
interventions. They may work in hospitals, clinics or managed care
settings. These specialists focus on helping people make transitions
from one level of care to another and often work with those who have
acute and chronic health problems. Specializations are available in
cardiovascular, oncology, critical care, complementary practices, and
other areas.
Nursing Management
Nurse managers play a key role in assuring high quality care
and a satisfying work environment on individual units, clinics and
departments in all types of health care organizations. They plan,
design, implement and evaluate evidence-based clinical programs that are
client-centered. Nurse managers develop policies and procedures that
ensure patient safety, promote high quality clinical care, and provide a
satisfying and meaningful working environment. They select and hire
nursing staff and promote professional development of staff nurses. They
monitor budgets and ensure fiscally sound nursing practice in their
areas and facilitate teamwork and positive interdisciplinary working
relationships. (NOTE: This track is not available with the
Post-graduate Clinical Scholars Option.)
Parent-Child Nursing Track
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
Neonatal nurse practitioners specialize in health care for premature
and/or ill newborns. They provide both autonomous and collaborative
management of infants in neonatal intensive care units and demonstrate
leadership in organizing immediate and subsequent care for their
patients. Providing neonatal health care requires expertise in
performing assessments and physical examinations, analyzing each
infant’s perinatal history, clinical laboratory data, and coordinating
diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. These practitioners also
provide education, continuity, and support services to families of
high-risk newborns in both ambulatory and acute care settings. (NOTE:
This subspecialty is not available with the Post-graduate Clinical
Scholars Option.)
Pediatric
Nurse Practitioner
Pediatric nurse practitioners specialize in primary health care for
children and adolescents (birth to 18 years). They diagnose and manage
acute and chronic pediatric health problems, educate parents about
children’s growth and development, promote healthy lifestyles, and work
toward prevention of illness.
Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Track
Adult Nurse Practitioner
Adult nurse practitioners provide primary care to adults and provide
counseling on health promotion and disease prevention and emphasize
wellness. They diagnose and treat acute and chronic health problems.
They may work in physicians’ offices, primary care clinics,
nurse-managed clinics, occupational health clinics or health department
clinics to name a few examples.
Family
Nurse Practitioner
Family nurse practitioners provide primary health care to patients of
all ages. They may work in community health settings, clinics, physician
offices, school health, occupational health, home health, and urgent
care. They diagnose and treat common health problems, promote wellness
and illness prevention, and help patients learn effective self-care.
Family nurse practitioners focus on health promotion and disease
prevention throughout the life span. They also diagnose and treat acute
and chronic health problems.
Geriatric Nurse Practitioner
Geriatric nurse practitioners work with older adults and their families,
promoting healthy aging, coordinating care, helping manage therapeutic
regimens including medications, and maintaining safe independence. They
diagnose and treat common health problems of older adults and work
collaboratively with elders and their families or significant others in
managing care. Geriatric nurse practitioners might work in geriatric
clinics, parish nursing programs, long term care facilities, or adult
day care centers.
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Track
Advanced practice psychiatric/mental
health nurses provide care for clients with psychiatric disorders and
mental health needs including severe mental illness, depression, anxiety
and substance abuse. They are prepared as individual and group
therapists for the population that is the focus of their specialization.
Adult and family psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioners
are prepared to manage psychopharmacological treatments. Adult
and child and adolescent psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse
specialists are prepared for systems activities including
consultation and education.
Public Health Nursing Track
Public
Health Clinical Nurse Specialist
These specialists concentrate on population-focused care. Assessing
advanced public health issues, developing wellness and illness
prevention programs, assuring health care for populations at risk, and
policy development are among the services public health clinical nurse
specialists provide. They work on policy changes that affect the health
of their populations. Their work is based on the core functions of
public health: assessment, policy development and assurance. Health
departments, schools, occupational health settings, wellness centers,
and community health clinics are among the places where public health
clinical nurse specialists are employed.
Public Health Nursing Management
Public health nurse managers focus on leading and managing
population-focused public health nursing programs. They emphasize the
core functions of public health: assessment, policy development and
assurance. They understand how to contribute to the development of
health policy and the impact of state, federal and even organizational
policies on the health of populations. Public health nurse managers
might work, for example, for health departments, managed care
organizations, or home health agencies.
Nursing Case Management
Nurse case managers work with target populations which have high risk,
high volume, problem prone health concerns. These include conditions
such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, trauma, work-related injuries
and certain disabilities. Emphasizing good symptom management and
functional status are important goals. These nurses work in a variety of
settings, and many provide care across a continuum, following clients
from hospital to home. Their work may be centered on groups or on
families within those groups. Nurse case managers work for hospitals,
managed care organizations, insurance companies, and in home health.
Questions? E-mail
conss@uky.edu
or call (859) 323-5108.
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