Nursing Specialty Descriptions and Curriculum Plans

Nurse Practitioner Specialties

• Acute Care
• Adult Primary Care
• Family
• Pediatrics
• Women's Health
• Psychiatric/Mental Health (Adult)
• Psychiatric/Mental Health (Child/Adolescent)

Dual Nurse Practitioner Specialties*

• Adult-Gerontology
• Adult-Women's Health

* Students who complete dual specialty programs are eligible to sit for certification in both specialties.

Clinical Nurse Specialist

• Psychiatric/Mental Health (Adult)
• Psychiatric/Mental Health (Child/Adolescent)
• Acute Care **
• Adult Primary Care **
• Family **
• Gerontology **
• Pediatrics **
• Women's Health **

** Open to post-professional RN students only at this time.

Course Descriptions and Advanced Practice Elective Options

• Nursing (NH, NP, NS, DNH, DNP, DNS prefixes)
• Interdisciplinary (HP prefixes)
• Clinical Investigation (CI and CIM prefixes)
• Communication Sciences and Disorders (CH and CD prefixes)
• Medical Imaging (MH and MI prefixes)
• Physical Therapy (PH and PT prefixes)
   
• Advanced Practice Electives