Adult Gerontology Acute Care
The Adult-Gerontology Acute care Nurse Practitioner AGACNP will be a major player in our ever-changing health-care system. AGACNPs can manage both acute conditions and chronic condition, the functions in health care can be exponential. The new shift in health-care is to provide primary/preventive and cost effective health-care. The AGACNP can be the primary care provider/hospitalist in the acute care or hospital setting. Primary care physicians are in need and not all providers have hospital privileges. When the patient’s Primary care physician is unable to provide continuum of care in the acute care setting, the AGACNP will continue that care. The AGACNP can further specialize, educate and become certified in a specialty area; examples include,