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Family Nurse Practitioner
Post-Master Certificate

— Required Courses

Family Nurse Practitioner PostMaster Certificate graduates can be certified as Family Nurse Practitioners.

  • 43 credits required for certificate
    Clinical hours total 600 and take place in a wide variety of urban and rural health care agencies in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

Required Courses

Course # Course Title
Credits
NU 704 Epidemiology
3
NU 707 Nursing Case Management/Leadership I
3
NU 724 Conceptual Basis for Community Health Nursing
3
NU 741 Human Pathophysiology
4
NU 742 Advanced Practice Nursing Pharmacology
4
NU 744 Community and Family Health Promotion
3
NU 745 Advanced Physical Assessment and Diagnostics
4
NU 750 Advanced Practice Nursing in Primary Healthcare
3
NU 751 Advanced Practice Nursing in Pediatrics
2
NU 752 Advanced Practice Nursing in Women's Health
2
NU 753 Advanced Practice Nursing in Geriatrics
2
NU 754 Advanced Practice Nursing in Trauma/Urgent Care
2
NU 791 Integration of Advanced Practice Nursing Role
2
NU 7901-7906 Series of Six Clinical Practice - Students may scheduled up to 3 credits of clinical practice each term
up to 3 credits/term
Total Certification Credits
43

Family Nurse Practitioner Program

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