{"id":17692,"date":"2017-06-08T17:16:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T21:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=17692"},"modified":"2017-06-08T17:28:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T21:28:49","slug":"new-nursing-program-addresses-local-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/new-nursing-program-addresses-local-need\/","title":{"rendered":"New nursing program addresses local need"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17704\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"17704\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/new-nursing-program-addresses-local-need\/practitioners-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/Practitioners-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"789,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Practitioners\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/Practitioners-1-631x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-17704 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/Practitioners-1-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/Practitioners-1-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/Practitioners-1-768x1246.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/Practitioners-1-631x1024.jpg 631w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/Practitioners-1-580x941.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/Practitioners-1-610x989.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/Practitioners-1-123x200.jpg 123w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/Practitioners-1-247x400.jpg 247w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/Practitioners-1.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Asquith, left, and Janna Evans are two of the seven graduates in the first class of the Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioners program in the School of Nursing.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"well span3 pull-right\"><strong>To enroll<\/strong><br \/>\nThe application deadline for the next Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner class will be Oct. 1.\u00a0Any applicants with a master\u2019s of science in nursing in a nurse practitioner specialty can start as early as January 2018 if admitted.\u00a0 All other applicants would start in May 2018 if admitted.<\/div>\n<p>The man\u2019s immune system had kicked into overdrive, pumping out massive amounts of chemicals to fight an infection.<\/p>\n<p>In such large amounts, however, the chemicals charged past the infection, causing other parts of his body to swell. The condition, known as sepsis, can reduce blood flow, form blood clots and lead to leaky blood vessels. For this particular patient, it led to multi-organ failure.<\/p>\n<p>Janna Evans was trying to keep him alive.<\/p>\n<p>A nurse practitioner at Erlanger Hospital, she was well aware that sepsis can be deadly, especially in patients with weakened immune systems. But it also can be successfully treated with antibiotics and fluids.<\/p>\n<p>Evans, physicians and other medical staff at Erlanger used drugs to battle the sepsis and a ventilator to keep the man breathing.<\/p>\n<p>He lived.<\/p>\n<p>During the intensive days of treatment, however, Evans says it occurred to her: \u2018Wow, <em>this<\/em> is acute care.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was something of an eye-opening moment for Evans, one of seven students in the Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program in UTC\u2019s School of Nursing. The group finished in May, the first graduating class in the program.<\/p>\n<p>The students already were certified as nurse practitioners, and all were working at Erlanger when they began the gerontology program. Now they have either a master\u2019s of science in nursing or a post-master\u2019s certificate to add to already-impressive resumes.<\/p>\n<h3>New skills<\/h3>\n<p>Although the students were familiar with the intricacies of medical care in a hospital, they have spent a year working with both physicians in different specialties and other medical professionals at Erlanger. In doing so, they\u2019ve developed new skills or enhanced ones they already have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe collaborate with other specialties better than we did before just because of more exposure to them and getting familiar with them and familiar with what we\u2019re capable of doing,\u201d says nurse practitioner Kelley Hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe clinical part was very beneficial,\u201d Evans adds in something of an understatement considering the man with sepsis.<\/p>\n<p>Hill says she and the other six students also deal with patients sent to Erlanger from other facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey may have shown up in outside facilities in critical care but they don\u2019t have the means to deal with it,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n<h3>Beginnings<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. William Crowe, assistant professor and program coordinator for the Adult Gerontology Acute Care program who also works at Erlanger, says nurse practitioners are spread throughout the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have acute-care nurse practitioners on the stroke team, on the neurology ward teams, with pulmonary critical care medicine teams, with the hospitalist team, with cardiology teams,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are also in the emergency department, and could even be found in occupation medicine treating work-related injuries,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Crowe says the program started about 2\u00bd years ago after Erlanger officials noted that the Chattanooga region had a shortage of nurse practitioners who could bring acute-care training into a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn response to the need for these specifically educated nurse practitioners from our local hospitals, UTC started the Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner concentration,\u201d says Chris Smith, director of the School of Nursing.<\/p>\n<p>Each word in the program\u2019s title adds to the entirety of its scope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcute care\u201d deals with situations that have gone beyond the state where they can be treated without hospitalization. For instance, high blood pressure can be treated by a nurse practitioner through medication, diet and exercise but a stroke caused by high blood pressure calls for an acute care nurse practitioner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGerontology\u201d focuses on helping people through the aging process, taking into account the social, psychological, cognitive, and biological aspects. But it also can include geriatrics, which deals with diseases in older adults.<\/p>\n<p>And the word \u201cadult\u201d was a specific choice made by School of Nursing officials to expand the program beyond just gerontology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreviously, the term was just \u2018acute care nurse practitioner\u2019 but was changed to show that we cared for the adult population, including the gerontology subset,\u201d says Crowe.\u00a0\u201cSo we care for patients from age 18 until death.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduates from the first class of the Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program are filling a need in regional healthcare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/new-nursing-program-addresses-local-need\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":17664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4936,64,661],"tags":[48202,48412,225,48449],"class_list":{"0":"post-17692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-school-of-nursing","9":"category-students","10":"tag-chris-smith","11":"tag-gerontology","12":"tag-nursing","13":"tag-william-crowe","14":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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