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The Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Specialty is designed to prepare graduates to care for children with complex acute, critical, and chronic illnesses across the entire pediatric age spectrum, from birth to young adulthood, and across the continuum of care settings. These settings include critical care units, emergency departments, inpatient units, and ambulatory/specialty based clinics.
Maximizing the health of children within the context of their families, communities, and environmental settings, the Primary Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner specialty is designed to prepare graduates to care for children from birth through young adulthood in pediatric primary healthcare including well-child care and prevention/management of common pediatric acute illnesses and chronic conditions.