Program Description
The neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP) role is to serve as a provider meeting the needs of low- and high-risk neonates and their families in a variety of settings including neonatal intensive care units, labor and delivery, well baby units, outpatient clinics and during transport services. They provide and manage comprehensive health care to critically ill and convalescing neonates, and their families, while collaborating with maternal child healthcare disciplines.Coursework includes advanced pathophysiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment and diagnostic reasoning across the lifespan, meeting LACE requirements for practice. Graduates are eligible to sit for The National Certification Corporation’s (NCC) examination to certify Neonatal Nurse Practitioners.
The program is divided into 4 parts:
- Core Courses: 4 days each quarter on-campus with online interaction, mentored-inquiry courses.
- Concentration Courses: Pharmacology I & II, and Advanced Pathophysiology meet up to four times a quarter.
- Clinical Experience: The clinical experience is a combination of clinician hours and DNP Project hours to total at least 1000 hours
- DNP Project: The DNP Project can be done in the workplace allowing students to collect evidence-based research data.
Program Length
3 years and 9 months full-time
