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The Primary Care Pediatric 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 health care spans the geographic settings of home care, ambulatory care, specialty care practice, urgent care, and rehabilitative care. Pediatric nurse practitioners provide advanced nursing care across the continuum of health care services to meet the specialized physiologic and psychologic needs of patients from infancy through adolescence, and have competencies to manage well-child care as well as complex, acute, and chronic health care conditions within a family-centered health care model. 

Students meet on campus for a mandatory Residency at the beginning of the clinical practicum rotations and at the end of the clinical practicum rotations.

MSN - Pediatric Primary Care Practitioner Track

Core courses		Credits
INFO 526	Information Innovation and Technology for Advanced Nursing Practice	3.0
NURS 500	Confronting Issues in Contemporary Health Care Environments	3.0
NURS 502	Advanced Ethical Decision Making in Health Care	3.0
RSCH 519	Introduction to Biostatistics	3.0
RSCH 523	Methods for Health Research	3.0
NURS 527	Evidence-Based Approaches to Practice	3.0
Support courses
NURS 548	Advanced Pathophysiology	3.0
NURS 549	Advanced Pharmacology	3.0
NURS 550	Advanced Physical Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning	4.0
NURS 646	Pharmacology for Pediatric Nurse Practitioners	3.0
NURS 664	Professional Seminar for Nurse Practitioners	1.0
Elective
	Elective	3.0
Clinical Courses
NURS 642	Pediatric Nurse Practitioner I: Wellness, Health Promotion & Disease Prevention in Infants, Children and Adolescents	5.0
NURS 643	Pediatric Nurse Practitioner II: Episodic Care of Infants, Children, and Adolescents	5.0
NURS 644	Pediatric Nurse Practitioner III: Primary Care Issues in Children with Chronic Illness	5.0
NURS 645	Pediatric Nurse Practitioner IV: Primary Care of Adolescents	5.0