The College of Nursing has eight graduate certificate programs available for students:

Graduate Certificate in Nursing Education
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The Graduate Certificate Program in Nursing Education is designed to prepare nurses for teaching positions in educational and service settings. The certificate provides nurses with essential knowledge and skills in teaching, program development, evaluation, clinical instruction, and other aspects of the educational process in nursing. Courses focus on concepts of learning; teaching methods and concepts of teaching nursing; multimedia, computer-assisted instruction and distance education; development of educational programs in nursing; evaluation; testing; and clinical teaching from a theoretical and research perspective. The program provides learners with a theoretical framework for teaching in nursing and related competencies.

Graduate Certificate in Nurse-Midwifery
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This Graduate Certificate Program is designed to prepare advanced practice nurses to practice as Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNM) in the primary care of women and newborns. The certificate provides nurses with essential knowledge and skills in nurse-midwifery care. The courses focus on concepts of nurse-midwifery clinical practice such as intrapartum, postpartum, newborn care and professional role transition. Upon successful program completion, Nurse-Midwife students take the national American Midwifery Certification Board (AMCB) examination.  Nurse-midwife graduates are prepared to provide comprehensive health care services throughout women’s lives and during the newborn period.   

Graduate Certificate in Pediatric Acute Care Nursing
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This Graduate Certificate Program will allow primary care-certified pediatric nurse practitioners to acquire the nationally-specified pediatric acute and critical care content and clinical skills needed to take the national pediatric acute care certification exam and then to function competently within the acute care scope of practice. It will require satisfactory completion of 18 credits of didactic content and clinical practice. The certificate provides nurses with essential knowledge and skills to assume acute care roles in a myriad of settings using a patient and family-centered care model. Courses focus on integrating advanced health assessment, pathophysiology, and acute clinical care and management. Specific clinical experiences in two of the courses will be tailored to meet needs of individual graduate certificate students. Students will be expected to acquire approximately 500 hours of acute care experience as required to meet the specialty competencies and the requirements to take the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner-Acute Care national certification exam.

Graduate Certificate in Pediatric Primary Care Nursing
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This Graduate Certificate Program provides nurses with essential knowledge and skills in pediatric primary care with a particular focus on care of children with complex chronic conditions. It will require satisfactory completion of 18 credits of didactic content and clinical practice. The certificate provides nurses with essential knowledge and skills to assume primary care roles in a myriad of settings using a patient and family-centered care model. Courses focus on integrating advanced health assessment, pathophysiology, primary care clinical care and management. Specific clinical experiences in two of the courses will be tailored to meet needs of individual graduate certificate students. Students will be expected to acquire approximately 500 hours of primary care experience as required to meet the specialty competencies and the requirements to take the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner-Primary Care national certification exam.

Graduate Certificate in Women's Health Nursing (Admissions moratorium in effect)

The Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner graduate certificate program is designed to prepare nurse practitioners or certified nurse-midwives to additionally practice as women’s health nurse practitioners in the primary care of women throughout their life span. This certificate program provides nurses with essential knowledge and skills in women’s healthcare. Courses focus on integrating advanced health assessment, pathophysiology, pharmacotherapeutics, women’s health primary care clinical care and management as well as concepts of complicated obstetric and gynecologic care and acute and chronic care. Specific clinical experiences in these courses are tailored to meet the needs of individual graduate certificate students. Students will be expected to acquire approximately 600 hours of women’s healthcare clinical experience as required to meet the specialty competencies and the requirements to take the Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner national certification exam.

Graduate Certificate in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing (Admissions moratorium in effect)
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The Graduate Certificate in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing is designed for applicants who have a Masters Degree in Psychiatric Mental Health (CNS) and want to complete the Nurse Practitioner (NP) program in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. In this concentration, students will gain knowledge in biological, neurological, pharmacological, and physiological domains that prepare them to conduct comprehensive assessments and utilize a range of psychobiological interventions.

Graduate Certificate in Complementary Therapies in Healthcare
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The Graduate Certificate Program in Complementary Therapies in Healthcare is designed to prepare nurses in using integrative health care, that is combining complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies with conventional treatment in the daily education and care of patients. The program will give students essential knowledge and philosophy in CAM and an opportunity to integrate this therapy into clinical practice.  Courses focus on various healing techniques including energy therapies, mind-body therapies, biologically-based therapies and body-based therapies.  The program will describe alternative care systems as well as CAM prevalence, assessment, benefits and risks.