Plans of Study

Fall I (9 Semester Hours)

  • Leadership and Management Essentials (3 S.H.)
  • Applied Epidemiology (3 S.H.)
  • Advanced Practice Role I: Introduction (IPE included) (3 S.H.)

Spring I (12 Semester Hours)

  • Advanced Physiology Online (3 S.H.)
  • Evaluating Evidence for Practice (3 S.H.)
  • Population Health for Advanced Practice (3 S.H.)
  • Interprofessional Skills and Team Based Healthcare II* (0 S.H.)
  • Clinical Data Management and Evaluation (3 S.H.)

Summer I (5 Semester Hours)

  • Health Systems, Finance, and Economics (3 S.H.)
  • Genetics/Genomics for Advanced Nursing Practice (2 S.H.)

Fall II (12 Semester Hours)

  • Health Policy, Law, and Advocacy (3 S.H.)
  • Quality and Safety (3 S.H.)
  • Pathophysiology for Advanced Clinical Practice (4 S.H.)
  • Interprofessional Skills and Team Based Healthcare III* (0 S.H.)
  • Doctor of Nursing Practice Project I (2 S.H., 148 Hours Practice Experience)

Spring II (11 Semester Hours)

  • Health Promotion and Assessment for Advanced Clinical Practice (4 S.H.)
  • Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Clinical Practice (3 S.H.)
  • Social Determinants of Health and Health Systems Inequities (3 S.H.)
  • Doctor of Nursing Practice Project II (1 S.H., 74 Hours Practice Experience)

Summer II (6 Semester Hours)

  • Essentials of Pediatric Primary Care: Infants, Children, Adolescents (3 S.H.)
  • Graduate Pharmacology Specialty (3 S.H.)

Fall III (9 Semester Hours)

  • Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutic Procedures for Acute Care (1 S.H.)
  • Acute Care: Pediatric I (3 S.H.)
  • Advanced Practice Clinical Practicum I (4 S.H., 270 Hours Practice Experience)
  • Doctor of Nursing Practice Project III (1 S.H., 74 Hours Practice Experience)

Spring III (11 Semester Hours)

  • Acute Care: Pediatric II (3 S.H.)
  • Advanced Practice Clinical Practicum II (4 S.H., 270 Hours Practice Experience)
  • Advanced Practice Role II: Integration (3 S.H.)
  • Doctor of Nursing Practice Project IV (1 S.H., 74 Hours Practice Experience)

Summer III (3 Semester Hours)

  • Advanced Practice Clinical Practicum III (3 S.H., 180 Hours Practice Experience)

Total Program Hours: 78 S.H., 1090 Hours Practice Experience

*no tuition/fees or registration required (accepting the course invite when sent is all that is required). However, there will be an approx. 8 hour per semester time commitment for this course.

Fall I (9 Semester Hours)

  • Leadership and Management Essentials (3 S.H.)
  • Population Health for Advanced Practice (3 S.H.)
  • Advanced Practice Role I: Introduction (IPE I included) (3 S.H.)

Spring I (6 Semester Hours)

  • Social Determinants of Health and Health Systems Inequities (3 S.H.)
  • Interprofessional Skills and Team Based Healthcare II* (0 S.H.)
  • Evaluating Evidence for Practice (3 S.H.)

Summer I (5 Semester Hours)

  • Health Systems, Finance, and Economics (3 S.H.)
  • Genetics/Genomics for Advanced Nursing Practice (2 S.H.)

Fall II (9 Semester Hours)

  • Applied Epidemiology (3 S.H.)
  • Quality and Safety (3 S.H.)
  • Interprofessional Skills and Team Based Healthcare III* (0 S.H.)
  • Health Policy, Law, and Advocacy (3 S.H.)

Spring II (6 Semester Hours)

  • Clinical Data Management and Evaluation (3 S.H.)
  • Advanced Physiology Online (3 S.H.)

Fall III (6 Semester Hours)

  • Pathophysiology for Advanced Clinical Practice (4 S.H.)
  • Doctor of Nursing Practice Project I (2 S.H., 148 Hours Practice Experience)

Spring III (8 Semester Hours)

  • Health Promotion and Assessment for Advanced Clinical Practice (4 S.H.)
  • Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Clinical Practice (3 S.H.)
  • Doctor of Nursing Practice Project II (1 S.H., 74 Hours Practice Experience)

Summer III (6 Semester Hours)

  • Essentials of Pediatric Primary Care: Infants, Children, Adolescents (3 S.H.)
  • Graduate Pharmacology Specialty (3 S.H.)

Fall IV (9 Semester Hours)

  • Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutic Procedures for Acute Care (1 S.H.)
  • Acute Care: Pediatric I (3 S.H.)
  • Advanced Practice Clinical Practicum I (4 S.H., 270 Hours Practice Experience)
  • Doctor of Nursing Practice Project III (1 S.H., 74 Hours Practice Experience)

Spring IV (11 Semester Hours)

  • Acute Care: Pediatric II (3 S.H.)
  • Advanced Practice Clinical Practicum II (4 S.H., 270 Hours Practice Experience)
  • Advanced Practice Role II: Integration (3 S.H.)
  • Doctor of Nursing Practice Project IV (1 S.H., 74 Hours Practice Experience)

SUMMER IV (3 Semester Hours)

  • Advanced Practice Clinical Practicum III (3 S.H., 180 Hours Practice Experience)

Total Program Hours: 78 S.H., 1090 Hours Practice Experience

*no tuition/fees or registration required (accepting the course invite when sent is all that is required). However, there will be an approx. 8 hour per semester time commitment for this course.