Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Post-Graduate Certificate Program Options

Leadership

Name: Michele Savin, DNP, APRN, NNP-BC, CNE, FAWHONN
Position:
  • Associate Professor
  • Program Director, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner MSN and DNP

Curriculum

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Core Curriculum Credits
NU 570 Advanced Physiology/Pathophysiology  3
NU 665 Comprehensive Assessment for Clinical Decision-Making for the Mother and the Neonate 3
NU 667 Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics for Neonatal Nurse Practitioners  3
Specialty Curriculum  
NU 662 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Neonatal Nurse Practitioner I  6
NU 663 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Neonatal Nurse Practitioner II  6
NU 664 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Neonatal Nurse Practitioner III  6
Total 27

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Core Curriculum Credits
NU 570 Pathophysiology of Human Disease 3
NU 665 Comprehensive Assessment for Clinical Decision-Making for the Mother and the Neonate 3
NU 667 Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics for Neonatal Nurse Practitioners  3
Specialty Curriculum  
NU 662 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Neonatal Nurse Practitioner I   3
NU 663 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Neonatal Nurse Practitioner II  3
NU 664 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Neonatal Nurse Practitioner III  3
Total 18

*NPs returning for a PGCP in an NP population-focused area in which they are not currently practicing or certified may be granted academic credit for prior didactic and clinical experiences based on a gap analysis of an applicants academic/practice portfolio.