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Examine the Curriculum

The Emergency Nurse Practitioner (ENP) Certificate is designed for nationally certified Family Nurse Practitioners (FNP) who desire or may be currently working in the Urgent Care or Emergency Department setting. Our two-semester certificate curriculum allows you to be eligible to apply for the national certification exam as an ENP.

Our post-graduate ENP Certificate builds on prior graduate course work and advanced-practice core knowledge in nursing. The curriculum provides students with the additional content and emergency nurse practitioner competencies needed for the highest level of advanced nursing practice in urgent care and emergency department settings.

Overview

The two-semester curriculum is a flexible hybrid/online learning program with one on-campus application-procedural skills intensive each semester. The program itself consists of two, 6-unit courses (didactic) and clinical (a total of 500 hours), ENP Grand Rounds (virtual presentation of case studies), and objective examination testing. As an ENP student you will also have extensive clinical practice immersion in the urgent care and emergency department setting. No extensions within the curriculum are available.

For more details, please review the ENP curriculum in the College of Graduate Nursing Catalog (PDF).  The curriculum grid appears on page 123.

Hybrid/online learning Curriculum for Working Professionals

Curriculum core components:

Self-directed hybrid/online learning courses accessed over the internet. These courses use a highly self-directed approach in guiding students through the examination of course concepts which reflect the complexity of practice at the urgent care and emergency department level. While the readings and websites provide the necessary background information, assignments and online discussions provide the opportunity for you to process the information, internalize key concepts and demonstrate learning.

Application-Procedural Skills Intensives on campus (one per semester) provide valuable time for you to interact one-on-one with faculty and others in the class. Application-Procedural Skills Intensives provide additional opportunities to learn, practice, and apply skills taught through the courses. To view the start/end semester dates and when you need to be on campus, please visit our Academic Calendar.

Clinical Practice Hours are built into the ENP curriculum. Clinical Practice-immersion experiences are established for each student across the two semesters and will include an urgent care and emergency department focus (a total of 500 hours). Students will complete clinical practice hours within a variety of established settings/community partners.