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 CurriculumCredits
NU 570 Advanced Physiology/Pathophysiology 3
NU 665 Comprehensive Assessment for Clinical Decision-Making for the Mother and the Neonate3
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
Total27

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Core CurriculumCredits
NU 570 Pathophysiology of Human Disease3
NU 665 Comprehensive Assessment for Clinical Decision-Making for the Mother and the Neonate3
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
Total18

*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.