Graduate Certificate: Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
The Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Graduate Certificate (PPCNP) program is offered to individuals who have completed a master's degree in nursing and who desire to obtain specialized knowledge to seek certification as a PPCNP. All of the courses award academic credit from The University of Toledo. Graduates of the program will be qualified to take national PPCNP certification examinations. The curriculum includes 540 contact hours for clinical practice.
Curriculum
| First Term | Hours | |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Physiology and Pathophysiology (Prerequisite) 1 | ||
| Advanced Health Assessments (60 lab hours) (Prerequisite) 1 | ||
| Hours | 0 | |
| Second Term | ||
| NURS 5690 | Adv Pharmacotherapeutics | 3 |
| NURS 5810 | PNP I: Care of Children - Well (180 clinical hours; offered odd years only) | 6 |
| Hours | 9 | |
| Third Term | ||
| NURS 5820 | PNP Clin II: Acute/Chronic (180 clinical hours; offered odd years only) | 6 |
| Hours | 6 | |
| Fourth Term | ||
| NURS 5830 | PNP Clinical III: Complex (180 clinical hours; offered even years only) | 6 |
| Hours | 6 | |
| Total Hours | 21 | |
| 1 | If the course was completed greater than 5 years prior to matriculation, the course must be repeated. |