Bridging the Gap Between Practicing Nurse Practitioners and Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Post-Master’s Curriculum

Abstract

The job growth for nurse practitioners (NPs) will exponentially grow by 2026 as registered nurses transition into this advanced practice role. Education is aligning with scope of practice. Although practice readiness has been looked at in the literature for new graduate nurses and new graduate NPs, the literature is lacking when describing practice readiness for NPs currently in practice who are back for a post-master’s certificate. This report describes the concept of practice readiness and how one school successfully prepares its students for clinical practice using a multimodal approach of didactic, simulation, and case-based learning.