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

Leadership

Jennifer Shiroff, PhD, RN APN-C, FNP-BC
Program Director, Women's Health-Gender Related 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 590 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner I  6
NU 591 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner II  6
NU 592 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Women’s Health Care 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 590 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner I  3
NU 591 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner II  3
NU 592 Diagnostic Reasoning and Clinical Decision-Making for Women’s Health Care 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.