Pediatric health is a specialty track with course work and clinical practica (preceptorships with expert practitioners) that prepares graduates for advanced practice as pediatric nurse practitioners and/or clinical nurse specialists with infants, toddlers, preschoolers, school age children and adolescents.

Graduates will be able to:

• Sit for a national certification for PNPs offered through either the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board, Inc or the American Nurses' Credentialing Center;
  
• Apply for advanced practice nursing licensure as a pediatric nurse practitioner;
  
• Apply for prescription writing privileges and be eligible for third party reinforcement (in states where NPs have these privileges)
  
• Apply to doctoral programs in nursing;
  
• Assume a pediatric nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist role in a wide variety of settings both inside and outside of formal health care agencies and institutions.

The pediatric health specialty is offered to students from a variety of academic and professional backgrounds through a number of routes to entry and program options. Find your pathway to entry.

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