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NP Educational Track Options at OUCN

  • Provides care to persons from newborn through aging, including obstetrics, but not birthing
  • Provides care to persons from newborn through young adults, excluding obstretic
  • Provides care to adolescents through the adult lifespan, including elderly.
  • Provides care to sick or premature infants, or those requiring intensive care management to sustain life, from birth through the first 28 days of life and longer if premature.
  • Prepares existing NPs or Certified Nurse Midwives to:
    • Change their scope of practice (ie. from a Women's NP to a Family NP)
    • Enhance their same scope of practice (FNP, PNP, ANP or NNP) but gain a Masters degree

NP Curriculum

  • Family NP Masters
  • Requires 50 credit hours with approximately 840 clinical hour
  • Pediatric NP Masters
  • Requires 49 credit hours with approximately 720 clinical hours
  • Adult NP Masters
  • Requires 48 credit hours with approximately 720 clinical hours
  • Neonatal NP Masters
  • Requires 49 credit hours with approximately 780 clinical hours
  • Post-Masters Options (all four specialty tracks)
  • Requires 36 to 37 credit hours with clinical preceptorship clock hours ranging from 720 to 800
  • NP and Midwifery Mobility Option
  • Requires 27 to 46 credit hours with clinical preceptorship clock hours ranging from 360 to 450

Curriculum Components

Courses
Speciality
Credit Hours
Core
  1. Theory
  2. Research
  3. Health Promotion and Culture
  4. Health Policy and Ethics
12
Science
  1. Advanced Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning
  2. Pathophysiology
  3. Pharmocotherapeutics
9
NP Core
(Not Neonatal)
  1. Family Theory and Primary Health Care
  2. NP Roles and Practice Management
6
Family NP Speciality

Primary Health Care for

  1. Children
  2. Women
  3. Adults and Family didactic and practicum
23

Pediatric NP Speciality

Primary, Acute, Chronic and School based didactic and practicum courses
22
Adult NP Specialty
Primary, chronic, and frail adults didactic and practicum courses
21

Neonatal NP Specialty

Advanced neonatal development and nursing didactic and practicum courses

37

NP Plans of Study

Graduate students must complete their Masters program within 5 years from admission to the Graduate College.to graduation.

  • Full Time 2 year Plan of Study
  • Selected in the NP pathway, begins in Summer, completes NP course work in 2 years

  • Part Time 3 year Plan of Study
  • Selected in the NP pathway, begins in Summer / Fall, completes NP course work in 3 years


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