Gain the expertise you need for advanced practice roles specializing in acute care for adult and geriatric populations with the online MSN: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program at King University. This CCNE-accredited degree provides the advanced theoretical knowledge and practice skills needed to excel in increasingly complex acute care settings. Learn more.

Enhance your nursing practice and build specialized expertise onto your MSN education with the online Post-MSN Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Certificate from King University. This CCNE-accredited program prepares students, who already have an MSN degree, for advanced practice roles in caring for adult and geriatric populations in the acute care setting. Learn more.

This program is designed to assist Internationally Educated Nurses (IENs) to work as part of an inter-professional healthcare team in geriatric and palliative care settings. Students acquire the knowledge and expertise to enhance an individual’s quality of living and dying as part of an end of life process. To meet the individual needs of the client during this transitional phase of their life, students examine current theories and explore best practices to build skills in assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation. Through a combination of classroom instruction and lab, students focus on the importance of communication, spirituality, ethics, law and culturally responsive nursing care for an aging or end-of-life population. Students will have an opportunity to consolidate their classroom learning with one practicum placement in a variety of settings that may include hospital, community, home care or long term care.

The Master's Degree in Psycho-Oncology and Palliative Care responds to the needs of health professionals to have theoretical and practical tools to improve the care of patients and their families. The program delves in depth, firstly, into the subdiscipline of oncology from the psychological perspective; and secondly, into palliative care.

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With the Master's Degree in Palliative Care, participants will acquire the specific knowledge to offer patients with terminal illness, and their families, comprehensive, continuous and individualized care, in physical, emotional, social and spiritual aspects, promoting autonomy and respecting the dignity of the patient.

This program is offered primarily online, however, during the first semester, students will attend a hands-on skills demonstration and simulation weekend on campus. During those three eight-hour sessions, students will navigate different acute care stations and scenarios with access to critical care materials to practice and demonstrate competencies in caring for acute care patients.

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The Master's Degree in Gerontology is focused as a highly useful postgraduate degree for all university students heading towards the field of gerontology, both clinical and social, being especially relevant for Health Sciences careers (medicine, nursing, occupational therapy , speech therapy, clinical psychology...) and Social Sciences (social work, labor relations, social psychology, psychopedagogy, sociology...), both from a professional and an academic and research point of view through the completion of doctoral theses by graduates. The Master's Degree is considered as a specialized and multidisciplinary training title, endorsed by the level of the teachers involved, mostly doctors, and from different fields of social and health care for the elderly.

The general objective of this masters is to provide professionals with the specific training and education to efficiently develop their managerial labor of active aging and promotion of health. Students receive training from teachers from a variety of fields (Psychology, Nursing, Public Health, Sociology, Engineering) providing a multidisciplinary perspective to aging and the Health professionals who specialize in it.

The Ohio University Post Graduate Adult Gerontology-Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG-ACNP) Certificate is for those who already hold a Master's degree in nursing and seek to attain the advanced practice role of the AG-ACNP. The 20-credit program features track-specific content that meets the core competencies and clinical hour requirements for AG-ACNP's set forth by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and can lead to specialized advanced practice certification eligibility.

In Therapeutic Physical Activity for People with Chronic Pathology, Aging, or Disability with Physiotherapists specialized in work in care centers, public or private, that develop or want to start rehabilitation programs based on the practice of therapeutic physical exercise. Physiotherapists specialize in working in health centers and gyms that include chronic patients in their training programs.

‘Health, Ageing and Society’ is the new name for the Master’s Vitality and Ageing. We are ready for change – are you?! The name reflects the broad contents of the study and it better reflects what the programme stands for. Approximately 150 students have graduated since the start of the programme in 2016. Will you be next?! In the coming months, we will be updating our website. We have already added some new videos and the new yearbook (2022-‘23). Also, copies of the three main course books will be available soon. We hope you enjoy reading and watching, and hope to see you at one of our information activities! 

The proposed training methodology added to the clarity, breadth and didactics of content design, allows the Master in Gerontology to be directed to professionals licensed in Psychology, Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Sociology, Physiotherapy, Kinesiologists, Sociocultural Animators, Economy and Law

Ageing and dementia are critical areas of study and healthcare, addressing the complex needs of an increasingly ageing global population. There are more than 900,000 people with dementia in the UK and 44 million worldwide, posing a major challenge for treatment and care.