In 1974, the UVA SON and UVA Hospital were awarded an Emergency Medical Services Training Grant to support the development of a Rural EMT training program and an Emergency Nurse Practitioner Program. Jane Echols (SON) and Richard Edlich (SOM) were co-directors of the Emergency Medical Education Program, which housed the programs. Denise Geolot, assistant professor in the SON served as coordinator of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner Program. The program launched in 1975 as the Emergency Nurse Specialist Program, a 24-week course providing registered nurses with the necessary knowledge and skills to deliver emergency care to patients in an emergency care facility. In January 1976, it transitioned to a two-semester Emergency Nurse Practitioner Program.
January 1976
ECBCNHI, UVA SON Curriculum Graduate, Box 1
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