Watch Program Director Dr. Michele Savin provide an overview of the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) MSN at Jefferson.
The Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) is educated to provide holistic, family-centered care for individuals from birth at any gestation to 2 years. Common issues include preterm neonates, infants, and toddlers who may need intervention for preterm or complicated birth, medically unstable situations, episodic illness, primary preventative care, or chronic disease management. The NNP curriculum focuses on embryology, transition to extrauterine life, and management of high-risk preterm and term infants. The NNP is also educated to deliver ongoing secondary and tertiary prevention related to chronic disease that presents during the first two years of life, including palliative and end-of-life care for babies and their families as needed. (NONPF, 2024)
NNPs practice in neonatal intensive care units, labor and delivery, well baby units, outpatient clinics and during transport services, collaborating with an interprofessional team.
Graduates of the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program meet the academic eligibility requirements to take the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination offered by the National Certification Corporation (NCC). Candidates who meet all eligibility requirements established by the NCC and successfully pass the examination are awarded the credential: Neonatal Nurse Practitioner-Board Certified (NNP-BC).
The NNP program is part of a Neonatal Education Consortium with the College of New Jersey. Additionally, for Florida based students, we partner with Nemours Hospital for Children in Orlando Florida. For more information regarding these programs, or for any student who is interested in the NNP profession, please contact Dr. Michele Savin at Michele.Savin@jefferson.edu.
MSN Program Outcomes
- Integrate relevant knowledge, principles and theories from nursing and related sciences into the advanced nursing care of individuals, families and populations. (Essential I)
- Demonstrate acumen in organizational leadership through effective collaboration, consultation, and decision-making. (Essential II)
- Integrate research translation and evidence appraisal into advanced nursing practice to initiate change and improve quality outcomes.(Essential IV)
- Evaluate information science approaches and patient-centric technologies to improve health outcomes and enhance quality of care. (Essentials III, V)
- Analyze the impact policies, economic factors, and ethical and socio-cultural dimensions have on advanced nursing practice and health care outcomes. (Essential VI)
- Integrate the concepts of interprofessional communication, collaboration and consultation to effectively manage and coordinate care across systems. (Essential VII)
- Incorporate culturally-appropriate concepts in the planning and delivery of evidence-based preventive and clinical care to communities, and populations. (Essential VIII)
- Demonstrate expertise in a defined area of advanced practice nursing that influences health care outcomes for individuals, populations and systems. (Essential IX)