MSN Nurse Practitioner Programs
Pediatric Primary Care Practitioner Track
The online Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner track is directed toward preparing nurse practitioners who will take advanced nursing roles as clinicians, educators, researchers, and leaders in the rapidly changing, evidence-driven health care environment. The program emphasizes evidence-based practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, and critical use of evolving technology in the care of children and their families. While most pediatric nurse practitioners practice in primary care settings, the continuum of child healthcare spans the geographic settings of home care, ambulatory care, specialty care, urgent care, and rehabilitative care. Pediatric primary care nurse practitioners provide advanced nursing care across the continuum of healthcare services to meet the specialized physiologic and psychological needs of patients from infancy through adolescence, and have competencies to manage well-child care as well as complex, acute, and chronic healthcare conditions within a family-centered healthcare model. Graduates are eligible to sit for the ANCC’s Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Examination and/or The PNCB’s Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Examination.
The nurse practitioner faculty is committed to quality and excellence in the nurse practitioner (NP) programs. Mandatory on-campus visits are essential to students transitioning into the NP role. The NP programs provide two on-campus clinical orientations to prepare students for clinical practice rotation. Following clinical orientation, these mandatory on-campus visits occur during the following times:
- 2nd Year, Spring Term – students come in during the N550: Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning course for midterm and final check-out.
- 2nd Year, Summer Term – students come in during the first clinical course for the Residency Week.
- 3rd Year, Fall Term – students come in during the second clinical course for 2-3 days for a standardized patient lab experience (SPL) and/or human patient simulation experience, depending on the program.
- 3rd Year, Winter Term – students come in during the third clinical course for 2-3 days for a second standardized patient lab experience (SPL) and/or human patient simulation experience, depending on the program.
- 3rd Year, Spring Term – students come in during the fourth clinical course for the second Residency Week.
For more information about this program, visit Drexel's MSN Nurse Practitioner Programs web page.
Curriculum
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| NURS 526 | Information Innovation and Technology for Advanced Nursing Practice | 3.0 | ||
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| NURS 500 | Confronting Issues in Contemporary Health Care Environments | 3.0 | ||
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| NURS 502 | Advanced Ethical Decision Making in Health Care | 3.0 | ||
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| RSCH 519 | Introduction to Biostatistics | 3.0 | ||
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| RSCH 523 | Methods for Health Research | 3.0 | ||
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| NURS 527 | Evidence-Based Approaches to Practice | 3.0 | ||
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| NURS 548 | Advanced Pathophysiology | 3.0 | ||
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| NURS 549 | Advanced Pharmacology | 3.0 | ||
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| NURS 550 | Advanced Physical Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning | 4.0 | ||
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| NURS 646 | Pharmacology for Pediatric Nurse Practitioners | 3.0 | ||
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| NURS 664 | Professional Issues for Nurse Practitioners | 1.0 | ||
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| Elective | 3.0 | |||
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| Professional Seminar | ||||
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| NURS 642 | Pediatric Nurse Practitioner I: Wellness, Health Promotion & Disease | 5.0 | ||
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| NURS 643 | Pediatric Nurse Practitioner II: Episodic Care of Infants, Children, and Adolescents | 5.0 | ||
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| NURS 644 | Pediatric Nurse Practitioner III: Primary Care Issues in Children with Chronic Illness | 5.0 | ||
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| NURS 645 | Pediatric Nurse Practitioner IV: Primary Care of Adolescents | 5.0 | ||
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