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Nursing:
MSN Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
The primary care pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) provides advanced nursing care across the continuum of health care services to meet the specialized physiological needs of patients from infancy through adolescence. PNP’s competently manage well-child care as well as complex, acute, and chronic health care conditions. The Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program is designed to prepare nurse practitioners who will take advanced nursing roles as clinicians, educators, researchers, and leaders in the rapidly changing, evidence-driven health care environment.
Emphasizes placed on:
- Evidence-based practice
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Critical use of evolving technology
Key Program Features:
- Clinically current faculty.
- Two on campus Residency Visits with simulated clinical learning experiences conducted in our new state of the art Multidisciplinary Patient Simulation Lab.
- The Advanced Physical Assessment course is offered as an on-line course with an on-campus component. Students are required to come to campus twice during the course: once for a midterm assessment and evaluation, and again at the end of the course for a final re-demonstration of clinical assessment skills. The end of the course visit is scheduled during the required NP Summer Residency Visit.
- Latest technology used to support and enhance the development of clinical competences
This is a 55 credit graduate program. It is designed for part-time attendance by working nurses. A total of 640 clinical hours are completed in the last year of the program. The four clinical practicum courses require two 8 hour clinical days per week.
Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Track
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