Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, DNP Advanced Practice Track

About this programme

This track prepares the student to practice at an advanced nursing level to provide family-centered evidence-based pediatric primary care to children from birth through adolescence. Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioners (PNP-PC) provide care to assist families in building a foundation of comprehensive holistic health and optimal wellness for their child; ranging from wellness visits, common acute illnesses, chronic conditions, mental health, and developmental and behavioral surveillance and management in the ambulatory care setting. PNP-PCs practice in a variety of pediatric settings, including primary care offices, community clinics, urgent care clinics, newborn nursery, palliative and hospice care, school-based healthcare centers and ambulatory in specialty-care and rehabilitative centers that manage chronically ill patients across the disease and condition spectrum. PNP-PCs can assess, identify, diagnose, treat, and provide management for pediatric conditions and diseases common in the primary and ambulatory care settings. They are responsible and accountable for providing preventative health care including health promotion and wellness, disease prevention, and patient and family-centered health holistic health education and counseling. It is a program recommendation for candidates to have at least one year or more of pediatric nursing experience, upon application to the program.