The Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) concentration is designed to prepare nurses at an advanced practice entry level to deliver high-quality care in acute care neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Population focus is preterm neonates (<37 weeks), term neonates, infants, and children up to the age of 2 years and their families. Program study includes evidence-based content in embryology, pathophysiology, assessment, management, and pharmacology focusing on the care of high-risk neonates and infants.

Educational Outcomes

• Apply theoretical perspectives, scientific evidence, and visionary thinking to critically analyze and lead complex organizational systems and implement innovative change.
• Use interpersonal, inter-professional and organizational communication and relationship building skills to create and lead highly functioning, reliable, and healthy inter professional
• teams.
• Combine business skills and principles, evidence-based practice, informatics, quality and safety strategies and metrics to lead care systems for improvement of processes and
• outcomes to improve health outcomes.
• Employ state, federal, and global health policy(ies) to advocate for healthcare reform and improve health outcomes for all.
• Model professionalism, integrity, ethical decision making, respect for differing points of view in diverse populations and promoting social justice in the development of the advanced practice role.
• Utilize research for the improvement of nursing practice and the advancement of nursing as an academic discipline.
• Ascertain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the health care systems in which they practice through lifelong learning.

Year One 

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Semester 1
Term A
NURS 5310	Nursing Theory	3
Term B
NURS 5319	Advanced Pathophysiology	3
Total Hours		6

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Semester 2
Term A
NURS 5362	Pharmacotherapeutics	3
Term B
NURS 5370	Rsrch Appraisal & Application	3
Total Hours		6

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Semester 3
Term A
NURS 5338	Health Policy and Advocacy	3
Term B
NURS 5220	Advanced Health Assessment	2
NURS 5121	Adv Health Assessm. Practicum	1
Total Hours		6

Year Two  

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Semester 4
Term A
NURS 5253	Advanced Neonatal Assessment	2
NURS 5254	Advanced Practice Nursing Role	2
Term B
NURS 5255	Neonatal Adv Diag & Skills	2
Total Hours		6

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Semester 5
Term A
NURS 5256	Neonatal IA	2
NURS 5257	Neonatal IA Practicum	2
Term B
NURS 5258	Neonatal IB	2
NURS 5259	Neonatal IB Practicum	2
Total Hours		8

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Semester 6
Term A
NURS 5261	Neonatal IIA	2
NURS 5262	Neonatal IIA Practicum	2
Term B
NURS 5263	Neonatal IIB	2
NURS 5377	Neonatal IIB Practicum	3
Total Hours		9

Year Three

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Semester 7
Term A
NURS 5378	Neonatal Advance Practic A	3
Term B
NURS 5410	Neonatal Advance Practic B	4
Total Hours		7

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Total NNP Credit Hours		77
Total NNP Clinical Hours		765