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 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 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 II 6
NU 642 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Pediatric Advanced Practice Nurse 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 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
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.