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Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Overview

The School of Nursing offers a Master's Degree in Nursing with a program focus in Pediatrics that emphasizes family centered, community-based and culturally competent care. Completion of this program allows graduates to sit for national certification as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner.

Courses include:
  • Health Promotion and Assessment
  • Advanced Practice Pediatric Primary Care Management
  • Pharmacology: General and Pediatric Specific
  • Care Coordination and Collaboration with Families and other Professionals
  • Leadership and Policy Changes
  • Clinical Research and Program Evaluation
  • Clinical Placements

Within the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program, the focus is on health promotion, maintenance of health, and treatment of common acute and chronic conditions of youth in a family and community context.

In addition, areas of specialty focus are available and may provide tuition and/or stipend support. These include: PNP: Pulmonary Specialist

The faculty on the PNP Workgroup and staff associated with this program include:

Michele Acker, MN, ARNP, Senior Lecturer & Program Director
Patti Brandt, PhD, ARNP, Professor
Janet Cady, MN, ARNP, Senior Lecturer
Sandra N. Jolley, PhD, ARNP, Assistant Professor
Gail M. Kieckhefer, PhD, ARNP, Associate Professor
Eunjung Kim, PhD, RN, ARNP, Assistant Professor
Anne Kalkbrenner, MN, ARNP, Lecturer
Gabrielle Seibel, MN, MPH, ARNP, Lecturer



Additional Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program Information

 
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