PNP Program Overview
The Purdue pediatric nurse practitioner graduate program offers an innovative approach to advanced practice education by integrating expertise from other disciplines — medicine, pharmacy, audiology, speech pathology, social work, physical and occupational therapy.
Program Features
The MS/PNP program features:
- Multidisciplinary study in a 630-hour preceptorship.
- Research opportunities on the Purdue West Lafayette campus and Purdue’s nurse-managed clinics.
- Distance learning technology.
- Practice opportunities at Purdue’s nurse-managed clinics.
- Global perspectives through ongoing projects in Ecuador, Nicaragua, and South Africa, and clinical preceptorships with diverse populations in the U.S., specifically the growing Hispanic population in rural Indiana and the Native American population through the Navajo Nation project in Kayenta, Arizona.
Program Goals and Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this program, the graduate will be able to:
- Evaluate client and family responses to health, illness, and social determinants as a basis for promotion, restoration, and maintenance of mental and physical health, functional abilities and the prevention of illness.
- Integrate theory, research, and informatics in the management of the care of individuals and families in a specialized area of practice.
- Apply advanced practice nursing interventions based on knowledge of the interrelationship among person, environment, health and nursing in the care of diverse populations.
- Demonstrate role competence as an Advanced Practice Nurse in providing compassionate, safe, and ethical care to individuals and families including rural and vulnerable populations.
- Provide leadership in effecting positive change in professional, social, political, and ethical situations to advance nursing, healthcare, and health policy.
- Evaluate quality and cost-effectiveness of nursing and health systems based on outcomes through effective communication and collaboration.