09/03/2026
A partnership worth celebrating!
In 2025, East Carolina University's College of Nursing launched a new Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) post-graduate certificate program — and this year, our first cohort of five graduated ready to care for the region's most critically ill patients.
Charlsie Woodard, Hunter Venters, Rachel Ferrell, Richa Dhungana and Angela Jones balanced full nursing careers with rigorous coursework and clinical rotations, leaning on each other every step of the way. Program Director Dr. Kristie Hertel helped guide them from bedside nurses and NPs to advanced critical care providers.
"Patients don't come from a textbook world," graduate Angela Jones said. "We have to critically think and look at the literature."
Huge congratulations to our first AGACNP graduates — and to the ECU Health partnership that helped make this program possible!
Read more about the path to the success of the program here: https://www.ecuhealth.org/first-agacnp-graduates-build-critical-care-expertise/
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