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Kristine Scordo, director of Wright State’s Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program, has helped her students achieve a 100 percent, first-time pass rate of the American Nurses Credentialing Center test.<\/p><\/div>\n

The several hundred students who have graduated from Wright State University\u2019s Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program<\/a> since it began in 1998 passed the national certification test the first time they took it \u2014 all of them.<\/p>\n

The 100 percent, first-time pass rate of the American Nurses Credentialing Center test is well above the national average. In fact, Kristine Scordo, director of the Wright State program, has been approached by other schools asking her for help in raising their pass rates.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tough program,\u201d said Scordo. \u201cIf you\u2019re my student and I don\u2019t feel safe with you taking care of me or my family, you don\u2019t graduate. This is not a get-by program. People\u2019s lives are in your hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

The master\u2019s degree program at the Wright State University\u2013Miami Valley College of Nursing and Health<\/a> was started by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n

To be admitted, students must have their bachelor\u2019s degrees and at least two years of full-time experience in critical care units such as emergency, trauma or intensive care. There are currently 65 to 70 students in the program.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Shah enrolled in the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program because of the quality of the program and high student pass rate.<\/p><\/div>\n

Students are trained to work in emergency departments, intensive care units, specialty labs and clinics, acute care wards and in other hospital and medical settings. The students specialize in areas such as critical care, cardiology, pulmonary, neurology, renal and trauma. They diagnose health problems and can prescribe drugs and treatments.<\/p>\n

\u201cNurse practitioners are prepared at a higher level of education in order to provide the care they are authorized to provide,\u201d said Scordo.<\/p>\n

For example, in addition to treating a man who just suffered a heart attack, nurse practitioners may also assess his children as a preventive measure. And their practice extends from the hospital to the home.<\/p>\n

Highly regarded physicians and specialists lecture to the Wright State classes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe curriculum is very extensive,\u201d said Scordo, adding that the students learn everything from trauma care to reimbursement to ethics of clinical practice.<\/p>\n

When students pass the written, proctored, four-hour credentialing test administered by the ANCC (American Nurses Credential Center), they can become licensed to practice as an acute nurse practitioner. Graduates of the Wright State program are working in hospitals and cardiology and other specialized practices in Ohio, Florida, Indiana, Texas and other states.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are all employed and all had two to three job offers,\u201d said Scordo.<\/p>\n

The students call the Wright State program \u201ctough love\u201d and refer to its director as Mother Scordo.<\/p>\n

Student Jennifer Shah of Cincinnati earned her bachelor\u2019s in nursing from the University of Toledo and enrolled at Wright State because she heard about the quality of the program and the high pass rate.<\/p>\n

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Scott Long says students in the Nurse Practitioner program are “better prepared, ready to go into the workforce.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough and it almost makes you \u2014 honestly \u2014 crazy because it\u2019s so hard,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it\u2019s going to be rewarding in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shah, who currently works at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, wants to make a career in a hospital\u2019s trauma unit.<\/p>\n

Student Scott Long of Columbus, who received his bachelor\u2019s degree from Ohio University-Chillicothe, plans to work with the trauma and critical care team at Grant Medical Center in Columbus. His colleagues recommended he enroll in the Wright State program.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a large amount of information we have to take in in a short amount of time,\u201d said Long. \u201cYou\u2019re going to go crazy at times, but you\u2019re going to come out better prepared, ready to go into the workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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