Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner BSN to DNP Concentration

The Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (PNP-PC) is prepared as a generalist principal provider of primary health care to children, birth through emerging adulthood. In this leadership clinician role the Primary Care PNP assumes responsibility for promoting, maintaining, and restoring health in youth with emphasis on developmental and health assessment and the diagnosis and management of well, acutely ill, and chronically ill children, adolescents ,and emerging adults in primary care and subspecialty settings. Clinical practice hours provide opportunity to deliver comprehensive care to pediatric patients in various supervised primary care and subspecialty settings. PNP-PCs lead quality improvement projects and provide leadership in educating families and communities about child health and in mobilizing community resources for the health and safety of children. 

The PNP-PC area of concentration offers post BSN to DNP and post masters to DNP preparation. Students may study full-time or part-time. The BSN to DNP is offered onsite on the main campus in Pittsburgh. The MSN to DNP is offered both onsite and online. BSN to DNP graduates are eligible for national certification offered by the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board (PCNB) and legal certification as a CRNP and prescriptive authority through the State Board of Nursing of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or by the Board of Nursing in the student’s state of employment.

*Courses with a “D” can be delivered synchronously via distance technology. Such courses are open only to qualified on-site students as per Policy 438.