Students may select clinical sites with an emphasis on child-adolescent, adult, or geriatric populations. Classes are offered in a concentrated format of four or five day meetings, three or four times each semester. On-line conferencing is required between sessions. Students must have computer and internet access. Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Women's Health Nurse Practitioner specialty begins with the study of gynecologic, well-woman care and continues with the study of healthy childbearing women.
Emphasis is on health maintenance of women throughout the life span.
This program prepares students for entry level advanced practice as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner. A focus on Critical Care Obstetrical Nursing is open to a limited number of students who have practiced as Registered Nurses. Upon completion of the program, the student will be eligible to sit for the National Certification Corporation Women's Health Nurse Practitioner exam. In addition to advanced practice in health systems management, opportunities are provided for advanced practice in financial management, operations management, marketing, accounting, economics, organization studies, management, and policy. Admission is required to both the School of Nursing and the Owen Graduate School of Management.