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Program Overview: Advanced Practice Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) Program within the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program (DNP)

Program Overview

The Neonatal Nurse Practitioner DNP Program is developed using the foundation of Patient and Family-Centered Care Within Advanced Practice Nursing Education

The Advanced Practice Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program is a graduate (DNP) program sponsored by the UIC College of Nursing (CON). It has been developed to educate and prepare advanced practice neonatal nurses to manage and care for the ill neonate and partner with their families to improve outcomes. This program will be highly specialized and clinically focused in order to provide hands-on comprehensive, culturally competent, and evidence-based care.

The student will explore nursing theory, research, ethics and health policy within the framework of Patient and Family-Centered Care. The NNP students will learn to manage neonates and infants, by developing partnerships with their families, particularly those in community based referral centers serving rural and medically underserved areas.

This innovative program has five didactic neonatal courses which are offered on-line. Clinical practica will be arranged at Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Units with experienced NNP preceptors.

Speciality Courses

NUSP 560 Advanced Neonatal Management I: The High Risk Neonate. 3 cr hr.	Focuses on the unique nurisng care and neurodevelopmental needs and vulnerabilities of high-risk infants emphasizing patient and family centered care practices that enhance outcomes.
NUSP 561 Advanced Neonatal Management II: The Acutely Ill Infant. 3cr hr.	Focuses on the assessment, stabilization, and theoretical management of acutely ill infants with common problems associated with prematurity while emphasizing the development of the parental care partnership.
NUSP 562 Advanced Neonatal Management III: The Gravely Ill Infant. 3 cr. hr.	Focuses on complex disturbances, alterations, and multi-organ interactions of the cardiopulmonary, neuromuscular, neurosurgical, renal, gastrointestinal systems while fostering and supporting the parental partnership in the gravely ill infants care.
NUSP 563 Essentials of Patient and Family Centered Care. 2 cr. hr.	Analysis of theoretical and research components of socio-culturally appropriate patient and family centered care and it impact on patients, families, health delivery and outcomes.
NUPR 574 Advanced Neonatal Nurse Clinical Practicum. 1 to 6 cr. hrs.	Incorporating the principles of patient and family centered care the students will assess, stabilize, and manage infants with common or complex disturbances, physiologic alterations, and multi-organ system dysfunction while addressing their unique neurodevelopmental needs and vulnerabilities in partnership with the parents.

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Certification Information
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How to Apply
College of Nursing DNP Program

Application materials must be complete and postmarked by February 1st for fall applicants. If you have further questions, please contact the College of Nursing at 312-996-2184 or CON@uic.edu.