The focus of the Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioners concentration includes health promotion, illness prevention, risk identification and the acute and chronic care of infants, children and adolescents. During clinical experiences, students learn to provide advanced practice nursing to children within the context of their families and provide individualized and culturally competent care. Clinical experiences occur in settings such as doctor's offices, hospitals, outpatient clinics, specialty clinics, home health care and schools.

Graduates from the M.S.N. program will be able to:

• Acquire educational eligibility to meet standards for advanced practice certification or other advanced professional distinction.
• Acquire competencies based on professional standards to assume advanced roles in nursing and for leadership and career advancement, including doctoral study.
• Communicate, integrate and apply advanced nursing knowledge and skills to provide evidence-based, culturally sensitive nursing care and promote quality outcomes in nursing and health care.