Adult /Women's Healthcare Nurse Practitioner
Faculty Coordinator:
Cathy Juve, Ph.D., RN
612-624-9950 or cjuve@umn.edu
Specialty Area Information:
The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program with a specialty as an Adult/Women's Healthcare Nurse Practitioner prepares nurses for leadership as advanced practice nurses. The three-year DNP program is for students who already hold a baccalaureate degree in nursing, and involves both coursework and clinical practica with an internship in the final semester.
The Adult/Women's Healthcare Nurse Practitioner offers leadership preparation for nurses desiring expertise in the Adult/Women's Healthcare specialty area. Students ground their studies in the science of nursing intervention, moral/ethical issues, and nursing research. They then focus on courses that examine the basis of assessment and intervention for adolescent and adult populations with an emphasis on adolescent and adult women. Practicum experiences are arranged to meet the individual needs of students while also meeting accreditation and certification requirements. In addition to completing core studies in the specialty, students also gain skills in evidence-based practice, program evaluation, informatics, teaching/learning, health economics, health care policy, and epidemiology. A final project that is a systematic investigation of a practice problem is planned, implemented, and completed during the curriculum.
Completion of required Adult/Women's Healthcare Nurse Practitioner coursework and practice hours provides eligibility to sit for Adult Nurse Practitioner Certification through the American Nurses Credentialing Center and the Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner Certification through the National Certification Corporation.
Admissions
Applications are reviewed once a year and the application priority deadline is November 3. Other DNP applications will be considered on a space available basis or until March 1, 2009.
Those students who are not selected may be placed on a waiting list. If placed on a waiting list, it does not ensure entrance into the specialty area for the following year. If you are not selected from the wait list, you must reapply the following year for consideration.
Certification
Graduates are eligible to take the ANP certification exam offered by ANCC and the WHCNP certification exam offered by the NCC.
More Information
Further information about the ANP/WHNP area of study is available below:
For more information, please contact the Office of Student & Career Advancement Services.
Courses in the Curriculum
Sample curriculum plan for full time student
- Advanced Physiology
- Advanced Women's Health Care for the WHCNP
- Assessment & Management of Health for APNs, Part 1
- Assessment & Management of Health for APNs, Part 2
- Clinical Integration in Adult Health Clinical
- Integration in Women's Health
- DNP Proseminar
- DNP Seminar 1
- DNP Seminar 2
- DNP Seminar 3
- Economics of Health Care
- Epidemiology
- Evidence Based practice
- Health Care Leadership for a Changing World
- Health Policy Leadership
- High Risk Reproductive Health
- Holistic Health Assessment
- Interdisciplinary Healthcare Informatics
- Introduction to Complementary & Alternative Therapies
- Moral & Ethical Positions in Nursing
- Nursing Research
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacotherapeutics
- Primary Care Practicum: Assessment & Management of Health for APNs, Part 2
- Primary Care Practicum: Assessment & Management of Health for APNs, Part 3
- Primary Care Practicum: Assessment & Management of Health, Part 1
- Program Evaluation
- Reproductive Health
- Science of Nursing Intervention
- Statistics
- Teaching & Learning in Nursing
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