Family Health Care Nursing

The Certified Nurse Midwifery (CNM) specialty prepares advanced practice clinicians to provide primary care to childbearing individuals in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings including clinics, hospitals, homes and birth centers. The graduates provide care that is informed by a core belief in patient autonomy and the importance of supporting physiologic processes, including birth.

The Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) specialty educates future health care leaders in clinical care, research, quality improvement, and policy. We are committed to training providers who are dedicated to increasing health equity across the lifespan through patient-centered care and systems change.  

Students learn to provide excellent community-based, family-focused primary care with an emphasis on historically and intentionally excluded populations. Our graduates improve health outcomes through evidence-based practice in a variety of clinical settings. 

The Neonatal Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Nurse Specialist specialties develop culturally sensitive providers who are able to address the complex health needs of acutely ill and recuperating neonates and infants and their families, and reduce disparity in neonatal care access. Students can choose to become either a neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP) or neonatal clinical nurse specialist (CNS).

The Pediatric Nurse Practitioner—Acute Care (PNP-AC) specialty prepares advanced practice registered nurses who provide child-focused, family-centered, culturally respectful care to meet the specialized needs of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with complex acute, critical, and chronic illness. PNP-AC graduates work across a variety of settings, including but not limited to hospitals, intensive care units, specialty clinics, emergency departments, and home health to care for pediatric patients that may have physiological instability, medical fragility, life-threatening illness or injury, and/or technological dependency. PNP-ACs collaborate within interprofessional teams to stabilize patients, effectively prevent and manage complications, facilitate the restoration of optimal health, and deliver comprehensive palliative and end-of-life care. 

The Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Primary Care (PNP-PC) specialty prepares clinicians and leaders to promote health equity and optimal health from birth through young adulthood in ambulatory settings. Students develop knowledge and skills in pediatric primary health and chronic illness care for infants, children, and adolescents in community and clinic environments.