Acute/Tertiary Care
Fax Number: 412-383-7227
The Department of Acute/Tertiary Care is comprised of faculty whose expertise focuses on care delivered in acute and critical care settings. This department provides courses in medical-surgical nursing taught in the undergraduate nursing program and four Master's level programs. These include the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) Program, the Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Program, the Nurse Anesthesia Program (NAP), and the Nursing Administration Program (Nursing Leadership) (CNL).
- Department Chair:
Leslie A. Hoffman, RN, PhD, FAAN - Administrator:
Elizabeth McNally - Secretary II
Carol Kieda
Emphasis in the Doctoral Program in the Department of Acute/Tertiary care is on critical care. Department faculty are engaged in active programs of research in the several areas indicated below:
- Communication issues in Critical Care
Dr. Mary Beth Happ - End-of-Life
Dr. Mi-Kyung Song - Genetics
Dr. Richard Henker - Health Disparities in CV Disease
Dr. Marilyn Hravnak - Health Disparities in Oncologic Disease
Dr. Margaret Q. Rosenzweig - Neuroscience
Dr. Sheila Alexander
Dr. Paula Sherwood - Oncology
Dr. Heidi Donovan
Dr. Margaret Rosenzweig
Dr. Paula Sherwood - Pulmonary Dysfunction, Weaning
Dr. Leslie A. Hoffman
The Acute
Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) Program prepares graduates to provide
direct continuous and comprehensive advanced nursing care across the
continuum of acute care services using a collaborative mode. Since
it's beginning in 1993, the ACNP Program has become a nationally recognized
leader in ACNP education.
Please visit the ACNP website for more information.
- Program Director: Kathy S. Magdic, RN, ACNP, FCC
- Administrative Secretary: Peggy McNeil
The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Program prepares graduates to function as expert providers of nursing care, developers and managers of population-based programs of care, change agents in advancing nursing practice, clinical outcomes managers who produce quality, cost-effective outcomes, and developers of research utilization projects to test innovative practices.
- Program Directors: Patricia Tuite, RN, MSN
- Administrative Secretary: Peggy McNeil
The Nurse Anesthesia Program (NAP) prepares entry-level practitioners in the exciting field of anesthesia. Through an integrated program of classroom instruction and clinical practice, students have the opportunity to apply nursing and anesthesia theory to the administration of state-of-the art anesthesia techniques. Currently, the NAP is ranked second nationally among all nurse anesthesia programs by US News and Word Report - March, 1998, 1999, & 2000.
- Program Director: John O' Donnell, RN, MSN, CRNA
- Administrative Secretary: Cindy McClellan
The Nursing Administration Program (Nursing Leadership) (CNL) prepares nurses to function in managerial positions in a variety of health care settings. The program has been designed for those nurses who wish to make a positive contribution to patient outcomes and service delivery in ways other than through direct patient care. The program also stresses the development of leadership in nursing and in healthcare administration.
- Program Leaders: Dr.
Gail Wolf, DNS, RN, FAAN