Provide comprehensive primary healthcare to children and adolescents
Our Doctor of Nursing Practice (BSN-DNP) Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner track prepares you to provide comprehensive primary healthcare to well, at-risk, and chronically ill children in a variety of settings. You develop knowledge in collaborative practice, health maintenance, chronic illness management, health policy, and patient advocacy.
Our graduates find employment opportunities in:
- Collaborative clinical practice
- Federally qualified health centers in both urban and rural settings
- School-based clinics
- Tertiary care specialty programs
- Urgent/emergency room
- Group clinical practice/HMOs
- Private practice
The BSN-DNP Pediatric Nurse Practitioner track is a three-year full-time or four-year part-time program of study that includes 66 credit hours and 1,005 clinical hours, 750 of which are direct patient care hours supervised by clinical faculty and an experienced preceptor. Clinical placements are arranged cooperatively by students and faculty. The remaining clinical hours are completed through the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a population health intervention for your evidence-based DNP project.