Neonatal Education Consortium

Mission of NEC: To facilitate the education of master's prepared neonatal nurse practitioners (NNPs) in New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. NEC will focus on two national goals defined in Healthy People 2010: improving the health and well being of women, infants, children and families; as well as educating and preparing nurses who are ethnically and culturally competent.

The NEC collaboration will recruit and facilitate the education of professional nurses leading to the MSN degree as a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner. The tri-state educational consortium will plan, design, implement and operate a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner program that will prepare advance practice nurses to serve medically underserved populations in rural and urban DE, NJ, and PA.

PI: Mary Bowen, CRNP, DNS, JD, CNAA, Associate Dean, Research and Development

Thomas Jefferson University Jefferson School of Nursing: Dr. Ksenia Zukowsky, CRNP PhD Assistant Professor 130 South 9th Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 tel - 215-503-5091 main office tel - 215-503-5090 email Ksenia.Zukowsky@jefferson.edu
University of Delaware Coordinator: Amy Johnson, DNSc, RNC Assistant Professor Department of Nursing University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 tel - 302-831-8369 fax - 302-831-2382 email ajohnson@udel.edu	The College of New Jersey Coordinator: Claire E. Lindberg, PhD, RN, APRN, BC Associate Professor and Chair, Division of Advanced Nursing Education and Practice School of Nursing The College of New Jersey PO Box 7718, Ewing, New Jersey 08628-0718 tel - 609 771 2510 (office) tel - 609 771 2592 (department secretary) email: lindberg@tcnj.edu