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

Leadership

Name: Laura Roettger, PhD, MSN, CPNP-PC
Position: Program Director, Pediatric Primary Care NP MSN

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 640 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Pediatric Advanced Practice Nurse I 6
NU 641 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Pediatric Advanced Practice Nurse II6
NU 642 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Pediatric Advanced Practice Nurse 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 640 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Pediatric Advanced Practice Nurse I 3
NU 641 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Pediatric Advanced Practice Nurse II 3
NU 642 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Pediatric Advanced Practice Nurse 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.