Pediatric Nure Practitioner Program Pediatric Clinical Nure Specialit Program Dual Pediatric Nure Practitioner / Clinical Nure Specialit Program UCLA School of Nuring Overview: The Pediatric Nure Practitioner (PNP) i a Regitered Nure educated at the Mater level a a nure practitioner. The focu of care for the PNP i newborn to young adult up to 1 year of age. The PNP i educated to provide continual and comprehenive wellne and illne care by providing preventive health ervice, patient education, dieae management and illne prevention. The PNP i prepared to implement evidence-baed practice guideline and to critically analyze and adapt health care intervention baed on individualized aement of child / family need. The PNP practice in the context of community, with broad knowledge, enitivity and awarene of the pecific need of people from divere population and cultural background. An additional option within the program i pecialization a a clinical nure pecialit. Dual preparation a both a nure practitioner and clinical nure pecialit i alo available. Nure Practitioner Role and Preparation The Pediatric Nure Practitioner provide advanced nuring care acro the continuum of healthcare ervice to meet the pecialized phyiological and pychological need of children and their familie. The PNP provide comprehenive wellne and illne care. They perform comprehenive health aement, order and interpret diagnotic tet and procedure, ue differential diagnoi to reach a medical diagnoi, contruct and order a plan of care, and evaluate the outcome of intervention for patient. Clinical Nure Specialit Role and Preparation The Pediatric Clinical Nure Specialit intervene in the individual patient/family phere, a nure-nuring practice phere, and the organization-ytem phere to influence patient outcome. Their activitie pan dimenion of care: clinical judgment, clinical inquiry, facilitation of learning, collaboration, ytem thinking, advocacy/moral agency, caring practice, and repone to diverity. Clinical Nure Specialit perform comprehenive health aement, interpret diagnotic tet and procedure within their area of expertie, provide expert conultation to other health care provider, upport organizational goal, evaluate application of reearch to clinical practice within an organizational etting, provide formal and informal multidiciplinary education, and provide leaderhip, mentoring and guidance to taff nure. Dual Preparation in Nure Practitioner and Clinical Nure Specialit Role With approval of the faculty, tudent may complete coure work for both NP and CNS role in the Pediatric Nure Practitioner Program. Thy mut complete all theory and clinical coure for both role. Pleae Note: 500 CNS clinical hour are now required to enure eligibility to it for the certification exam. Program Goal The goal of the UCLA School of Nuring Pediatric Nure Practitioner program i to prepare nure to aume an advanced practice role in the care of newborn to young adult. The PNP will be able to provide comprehenive wellne and illne care through preventive health ervice, patient education, acute illne and chronic dieae management. The goal of the Pediatric Clinical Nure Specialit program i to prepare nure to aume an advanced practice
role in the care of newborn to young adult with acute or chronic illne and with high-intenity nuring and medical need. Education: Mater of Science in Nuring Credential (depending on role): Eligible for the Pediatric Nuring Certification Board (PNCB) certification exam a a Pediatric Nure Practitioner. Eligible for the American Nure Credentialing Center (ANCC) certification exam a a Pediatric Nure Practitioner Eligible for the American Nure Credentialing Center (ANCC) certification exam a a Pediatric Clinical Nure Specialit Eligible for precriptive authority in all 50 tate with retriction a pecified by tate Type of Care Provided by Pediatric Nure Practitioner: Well-child primary care Epiodic care for acute condition, including minor acute injurie and common illnee Management of chronic condition uch a diabete and athma. Monitoring and cae management/conultation of more acute or complex medical condition uch a cardiac, eizure or neuromucular diorder. General Function of the Pediatric Nure Practitioner: Obtain health hitorie and perform comprehenive phyical examination, including pychoocial, functional, and developmental aement Order and interpret lab reult and other diagnotic tudie Develop differential diagnoe Develop/order therapeutic plan of care including precription medication Maintain patient record Evaluate patient repone to plan of care and modify a needed Provide child/family couneling and education Arrange for patient referral/conultation Participate in reearch tudie Collaborate with other health team member General Function of the Pediatric Clinical Nure Specialit: Comprehenive, holitic wellne and illne aement Deign, implementation, and evaluation of innovative individual, aggregate, and/or population-baed program of care Identification and meaurement of nure-enitive patient outcome Multidiciplinary collaboration Diagnoi of ytem-level problem and development and evaluation of ytem-level change trategie Evidence-baed practice at the patient, nuring, and ytem level Patient and nuring advocacy Clinical and profeional leaderhip Curriculum: The two-year program ( quarter per year) conit of theory and clinical coure deigned to prepare APN to work in a collaborative practice etting. Coure meet the criteria deignated by tate and national accreditation bodie and profeional organization including the California
Board of Regitered Nuring, American Aociation of College of Nuring, and National Organization of Nure Practitioner Faculty. Dual NP/CNS tudent alo take an intenive clinical coure during the Summer Seion between the firt and econd year of tudy. Sample Full Time Curriculum Sequence 010 Admiion Thi coure equence i provided a an example only. An individual tudent' program may differ from thi ample according to hi/her background and educational goal. Each tudent mut meet with hi/her faculty advior every quarter to review progre in the program and plan courework for future quarter. A minimum of 7 unit i required for the NP tudent. A tudent receiving funding from the Graduate Diviion mut enroll in at leat 1 unit each quarter. Firt Year N00 N0 N1 1 NURSE PRACTITIONER ROLE N N N0 5 10 NA NA Second Year N1 NB NB 1 NC N NC 1 ND Nuring Theory elective *A minimum of unit of nuring theory elective courework i required for all Pediatric Nure Practitioner tudent. See revere ide for lit of nuring theory elective coure. Check with your advior regarding elective offered during the ummer. Student receiving funding from the Graduate Diviion mut enroll in 1 unit each quarter. Core Coure N00 Health Promotion and Aement Acro the Lifepan N0 Reearch Deign and Critique N Pharmacology for Advanced Practice Nure N1 Pathophyiology for Advanced Practice Nure N Profeional Iue in Nuring Clinical Specialty Theory Coure N1 Health Related Family Theory N Childhood Development Reearch and Application to Nuring Advanced Practice Theory Coure NA,B,C Theoretical Foundation of the Nuring of Children Clinical Practicum/Reidency Coure NA,B,C Advanced Practice Nuring in the Care of Children ND Pediatric Primary Care: Reidency N0 Advanced Aement and Clinical Diagnoi Practicum
Nuring Theory Elective Coure: A minimum of unit of nuring theory elective courework i required for tudent in Pediatric pecialty. Nuring theory elective coure mut be elected in conultation with the tudent' faculty advior. Below i a ample lit of acceptable elective coure. With the advior approval, tudent may requet approval by petition to take an elective coure in a related ubject through another department on campu. N09 Human Diverity in Health and Illne () N11 Theoretical Foundation of Women Health Care () N1A Occupational Health Nuring Role and Theory () N1B Health Aement, Reearch, and Health Promotion in Occupational Health () N1 Human Repone to Cancer () N1F Human Repone to Cancer () N15 Human Repone to Cancer () N15F Human Repone to Cancer () N1ABCorD Nuring Adminitration Theory ( each) N19A Eential of Accounting and Budgeting in Health Care Organization () N19B Operation Planning and Control for Nuring Adminitration () N0 Theorie of Intruction and Learning in Nuring Elective for NP N1* Biobehavioral Foundation of Neuropychiatric Aement () N1F* Biobehavioral Foundation of Neuropychiatric Aement () N* Biobehavioral Foundation of Neuropychiatric Aement () NF* Biobehavioral Foundation of Neuropychiatric Aement () N5** * Theoretical Foundation of Clinical Nure Specialit Practice () N59 Directed Individual Studie (-) Check with your advior. *Pleae check to find out whether thi coure will be offered in the Summer. ***Non-CNS tudent may ue thi coure a an elective. Comprehenive Examination Completed during lat academic quarter Sample Full Time Curriculum Sequence 010 Admiion Thi coure equence i provided a an example only. An individual tudent' program may differ from thi ample according to hi/her background and educational goal. Each tudent mut meet with hi/her faculty advior every quarter to review progre in the program and plan courework for future quarter. A minimum of 71 unit for the CNS tudent. A tudent receiving funding from the Graduate Diviion mut enroll in at leat 1 unit each quarter. Firt Year N00 N0 N0 N1 CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST ROLE 15 N N N5 N0 5 1 NA N5 Elective 0- -1
Second Year N1 NB N5 1 NC N N5 1 N5 Nuring Theory elective *A minimum of unit of nuring theory elective courework i required for all Pediatric Clinical Specialit tudent. See revere ide for lit of nuring theory elective coure. Check with your advior regarding elective offered during the ummer. Student receiving funding from the Graduate Diviion mut enroll in 1 unit each quarter. Core Coure N00 Health Promotion and Aement Acro the Lifepan N0 Reearch Deign and Critique N0 Theorie of Intruction and Learning in Nuring N Pharmacology for Advanced Practice Nure N1 Pathophyiology for Advanced Practice Nure N5 Theoretical Foundation for Clinical Nure Specialty Practice N Profeional Iue in Nuring Clinical Specialty Theory Coure N1 Health Related Family Theory N Childhood Development Reearch and Application to Nuring Advanced Practice Theory Coure NA,B,C Theoretical Foundation of the Nuring of Children Clinical Practicum/Reidency Coure N0 Advanced Aement and Clinical Diagnoi Practicum N5 Advanced Practice Nuring: Clinical Nure Specialty Practicum Nuring Theory Elective Coure: A minimum of unit of nuring theory elective courework i required for tudent in Pediatric pecialty. Nuring theory elective coure mut be elected in conultation with the tudent' faculty advior. Below i a ample lit of acceptable elective coure. With the advior approval, tudent may requet approval by petition to take an elective coure in a related ubject through another department on campu. N09 Human Diverity in Health and Illne () N11 Theoretical Foundation of Women Health Care () N1A Occupational Health Nuring Role and Theory () N1B Health Aement, Reearch, and Health Promotion in Occupational Health () N1 Human Repone to Cancer () N1F Human Repone to Cancer () N15 Human Repone to Cancer () N15F Human Repone to Cancer () N1ABCorD Nuring Adminitration Theory ( each) N19A Eential of Accounting and Budgeting in Health Care Organization () N19B Operation Planning and Control for Nuring Adminitration () N1* Biobehavioral Foundation of Neuropychiatric Aement () N1F* Biobehavioral Foundation of Neuropychiatric Aement ()
N* Biobehavioral Foundation of Neuropychiatric Aement () NF* Biobehavioral Foundation of Neuropychiatric Aement () N59 Directed Individual Studie (-) Check with your advior. *Pleae check to find out whether thi coure will be offered in the Summer. Comprehenive Examination Completed during lat academic quarter Sample Full Time Curriculum Sequence 010 Admiion Thi coure equence i provided a an example only. An individual tudent' program may differ from thi ample according to hi/her background and educational goal. Each tudent mut meet with hi/her faculty advior every quarter to review progre in the program and plan courework for future quarter. A minimum of unit i required for the NP/CNS dual certification tudent. Student receiving funding from the Graduate Diviion mut enroll in at leat 1 unit each quarter. Student mut meet with their faculty advior each quarter. DUAL CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST/NURSE PRACTITIONER ROLE Firt Year N00 N0 or N0 N1 0-11- 15 N0 or N N N0 0-5 10-1 NA NA N5 CNS Theory N5 1 Summer N5 Clinical for NP/CNS Student Second Year N1 NB NB N5 10 1 NC N NC N5 15 ND NP Clinical Nuring Theory elective *A minimum of unit of nuring theory elective courework i required for all Pediatric tudent. See revere ide for lit of theory elective coure. Core Coure N00 Health Promotion and Aement Acro the Lifepan N0 Reearch Deign and Critique N0 Theorie of Intruction and Learning in Nuring N Pharmacology for Advanced Practice Nure N1 Pathophyiology for Advanced Practice Nure N5 N Theoretical Foundation for Clinical Nure Specialty Practice Profeional Iue in Nuring
Clinical Specialty Theory Coure N1 Health Related Family Theory N Childhood Development Reearch and Application to Nuring Advanced Practice Theory Coure NA,B,C Theoretical Foundation of the Nuring of Children Clinical Practicum/Reidency Coure NA,B,C Advanced Practice Nuring in the Care of Children ND Pediatric Primary Care: Reidency N0 Advanced Aement and Clinical Diagnoi Practicum N5 Advanced Practice Nuring: Clinical Nure Specialty Practicum Student intereted in both CNS & NP certification will take N5 for 10 unit during the ummer. Nuring Theory Elective Coure: A minimum of unit of nuring theory elective courework i required for tudent in Pediatric pecialty. Nuring theory elective coure mut be elected in conultation with the tudent' faculty advior. Below i a ample lit of acceptable elective coure. With the advior approval, tudent may requet approval by petition to take an elective coure in a related ubject through another department on campu. N09 Human Diverity in Health and Illne () N11 Theoretical Foundation of Women Health Care () N1A Occupational Health Nuring Role and Theory () N1B Health Aement, Reearch, and Health Promotion in Occupational Health () N1 Human Repone to Cancer () N1F Human Repone to Cancer () N15 Human Repone to Cancer () N15F Human Repone to Cancer () N1ABCorD Nuring Adminitration Theory ( each) N19A Eential of Accounting and Budgeting in Health Care Organization () N19B Operation Planning and Control for Nuring Adminitration () N1* Biobehavioral Foundation of Neuropychiatric Aement () N1F* Biobehavioral Foundation of Neuropychiatric Aement () N* Biobehavioral Foundation of Neuropychiatric Aement () NF* Biobehavioral Foundation of Neuropychiatric Aement () N59 Directed Individual Studie (-) Check with your advior. *Pleae check to find out whether thi coure will be offered in the Summer. Comprehenive Examination Completed during lat academic quarter