Indiana University and Purdue University formed a partnership in 1969 to create IUPUI, combining 22 schools and more than 200 academic majors. The campus is situated on a 512-acre property and has an enrollment of more than 20,000 undergraduate and 9,000 graduate students, as of May 2010. The School of Nursing at IUPUI has a Master of Science degree as an acute care nurse practitioner. The course combines 43 credit hours of classroom and lab study with 600 hours of clinical work providing direct patient care. The curriculum meets the requirements of the American Nurses Credentialing Association to sit for the exam to be certified as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. The program is offered once a year in the spring with a Sept. 15 admission application deadline.
IUPUI
420 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-274-5555
nursing.iupui.edu
The School of Nursing at the University of California-San Francisco offers a master's degree in critical care/trauma with an optional clinical nurse specialist focus. The curriculum includes patho-physiology, pharmacology, monitoring critical patients and advance critical practice and analysis. Graduates have moved on to hospital emergency areas, research and teaching positions, and the school's Ph.D. program. The degree can be completed in two years with full-time attendance. The National Institutes of Health named the nursing program the No. 2 school in the U.S. in 2009 and the top school from 2003 to 2006. The master's degree program was ranked second in the "U.S. News and World Report" list of the best nursing programs of 2007.
University of California-San Francisco
Nursing Student Affairs Office
2 Koret Way, #N-319X
UCSF Box 0602
San Francisco, CA 94143-0602
415-476-1435
nurseweb.ucsf.edu
The Master of Science as an acute/critical care nurse practitioner is a 42-credit hour curriculum that may be taken on a full-time or part-time basis. Research, assessment, pathophysiology, pharmacology and mental health courses accompany hands-on clinical work. The program satisfies the educational requirement to sit for certification exams with the state of New Jersey licensing board, American Association of Critical Care Nurses Certification Corporation and the American Nurses' Credentialing Center as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP).
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
School of Nursing
Newark Campus
65 Bergen St., Room 152
University Heights
Newark, NJ 07107
973-972-5336
sn.umdnj.edu
Stratford Campus
40 East Laurel Road, Suite 2025
Stratford, NJ 08084
856-566-6200
sn.umdnj.edu