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School to Launch New Acute Care Pediatric NP Program The UR School of Nursing is set to launch a new Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) Acute Care program, its latest groundbreaking initiative in a history of transformative nurse practitioner education. The one-year post-master’s certificate program, slated to begin in the fall of 2021, is the first of its kind in New York State. It focuses on caring for children of all ages with complex, acute, critical and chronic illnesses, disabilities, or injuries, and prepares students to deliver high-quality advanced nursing care that restores health, prevents complications, and assists patients and families in navigating rapidly changing health care environments. Program graduates will be well-prepared to work in a variety of clinical settings, such as pediatric intensive care units, emergency rooms, urgent care departments, trauma centers, and pediatric specialties such as cardiology, pulmonology, and neurology. The UR PNP acute care post-master’s program is a critical addition to the advanced practice specialties available to nurses, not only in Rochester, but across the region. Nationwide, there are only 42 acute care PNP programs recognized by the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board. The UR Nursing program was developed by a small group of specialty pediatric faculty, led by Erin Baylor, DNP, RN, PPCNPBC, ONP, who will be the specialty program director. The team also included Elizabeth Cole, MS, RN, ACPNP-BC; Andrew Wolf, EdD, RN, AGACNP-BC; Craig Sellers, PhD, RN, AGPCNP-BC, GNP-BC, FAANP; and Margaret Carno, PhD, RN, PPCNP-BC. The program will consist of a mixture of online courses and on-campus intensives. Students will be required to complete two semester-long
courses of 6-9 credit hours each, which include a lab and clinical hours. Requirements for the program include a bachelor’s degree in nursing from an accredited school of nursing, a graduate degree (master’s or doctoral) as a pediatric nurse practitioner, and RN licensure. The application deadline for the program is April 15, and a limited number of students will be accepted into the program each fall. For more information on the program, please visit urson.us/pnp-acute.
Erin Baylor, DNP, RN, PPCNP-BC, ONP, the current director of the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program, will be the specialty program director of the PNP-Acute Care program. A small group of specialty pediatric faculty, led by Baylor, developed the new program.
UR Nursing in the News What’s new in the School of Nursing? Here are some recent media reports involving UR Nursing faculty, staff, and students. Beth Palermo, DNP, RN, ANP-BC, ACNP-BC, assistant professor of clinical nursing, was quoted in a Futurity article about the history of the ventilator during its peak demand at the beginning of the pandemic. The Rochester Business Journal profiled Associate Dean Renu Singh, MS, on her success as the CEO of UR Medicine Employee Wellness Program and its nurse-based condition management program.
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Dean Kathy Rideout, EdD, PPCNP-BC, FNAP, made several local Rochester TV and radio appearances during National Nurses Week in May, including teaming up with acute care nurse at Strong Memorial Hospital and alumna Danette Niles, BSN, RN-BC, to share how the COVID-19 outbreak had impacted both nursing job responsibilities and education. Rideout also appeared on Fox’s “Good Day Rochester” in the fall to discuss
the UR School of Nursing’s commitment to diversity and its fourth consecutive HEED Award (see story, opposite page). The stars aligned for UR School of Nursing student Jose Perpignan, RN, when Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest announced he was the winner of the show’s $100,000 Healthcare Hero giveaway. Perpignan is a 2016 graduate of the UR Nursing APNN program and is currently a student in the UR Nursing FNP/DNP program (see story, page 34).
