The Emergency Nurse Practitioner (ENP) Program prepares advanced practice nurses with the knowledge and skills needed to provide emergency and urgent health care services to individuals of all ages.  Emphasis is on the management of acute illnesses, trauma, and/ or chronic unstable illnesses requiring immediate attention, stabilizing the individual’s condition, and determining appropriate referral and follow-up care.  ENPs provide care in ambulatory, urgent care, and emergency department settings.  Graduates are prepared to be recognized as advanced practice nurses by the Board of Nurse Examiners and to take the Family Nurse Practitioner National Certification Examination through the American Nurses Credentialing Center or the Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

 This program provides you a background to:

•  Implement the role of an ENP and provide urgent and emergency care to individuals across the lifespan. 

• Demonstrate clinical expertise in assessment, diagnostic reasoning, and therapeutic management of acutely ill individuals of all ages.

• Use research and theoretical principles in implementing therapies that restore health, minimize complications, and manage risk factors.

• Integrate patient care across the continuum of health care services in collaboration with other health care professionals, families, and patients.

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