Advanced Rural Hospital Care Program

Who is it for? Does this describe you and your goals?

To improve patient outcomes in rural emergency rooms, a program that will provide continuing emergency training to nurse practitioners will begin in Nebraska in August 2012. If you’re currently a family nurse practitioner student desiring training in rural emergency and urgent care, the Advanced Rural Hospital Care (ARHC) program is designed for you. The program’s goal is to increase patient access to high quality emergency care in rural areas. This will reduce the health care access disparities in rural and medically underserved areas.

What is the ARHC program?

The Advanced Rural Hospital Care Program (ARHC) project is a three-year federal training grant that was awarded to the College of Nursing in 2011. Nebraska has 65 Critical Access Hospitals; that rely on skilled healthcare providers to meet the needs of the community. The ARHC program is designed to develop advanced clinical skills in emergency care and inpatient management for family nurse practitioners.

As part of the project, students across the region will be able to advance their career goals to meet the challenges of emergent and inpatient hospital care in the rural and critical access setting This project will prepare the FNP to provide high quality emergency care and inpatient management through a combination of enhanced distance education technology and intensive interactive skill development utilizing the resources available on the UNMC campus.

Tracts of study available

• Advanced Rural Hospital Care FNP

For more information contact Kathy Morris, RN, DNP, APRN-NP