Overview
The Women's Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP) is clinically focused on the assessment, diagnosis, and management of women's common and complex gynecologic, sexual, obstetric, reproductive, and common primary healthcare needs. The WHNP provides holistic, person-centered care for women from adolescence throughout the adult lifespan, and for men's sexual and reproductive health. The WHNP emphasizes health promotion and disease prevention and provides care inclusive of all gender identities and sexual orientations. The WHNP is a woman specialized focus, meaning that the WHNP is prepared to work independently and collaboratively as an expert in women's health, providing care and consultation for women's health needs, while also providing leadership in health systems and communities to improve the health of women.
Career opportunities include but are not limited to outpatient clinics with a focus on obstetrics and gynecology, primary care, urogynecology, maternal fetal medicine, fertility, gynecology oncology, family planning, HIV, STI, transgender health, and inpatient women's health and obstetric triage units.
NP credentialing - Graduates are eligible to apply to take the Nurse Practitioner board certification exam in this specialty.
The following information regarding this specialty track is accurate at the time of publication, but is subject to change.
Women’s Health NP for Students Enrolled Beginning Fall 2024
| Number | Course Name | Credit Hrs |
| EPI 808 | Biostatistics and Epidemiology in Nursing Practice * | 4 |
| NRSG 600 | Foundations of Scholarly Writing * | 1 |
| NRSG 601 | Advanced-Level Nursing Roles * | 2 |
| NRSG 602 | Foundations of Quality, Safety, Informatics and Finance * | 4 |
| NRSG 603 | Foundations of Theories and Evidence-Based Practice * | 3 |
| NRSG 604 | Foundations of Population-Based Health Policy * | 3 |
| NRSG 605 | Advanced Pathophysiology * | 4 |
| NRSG 606 | Pharmacotherapeutics for the Advanced Practice Nurse * | 3 |
| NRSG 607 | Advanced Assessment & Clinical Reasoning Across the Life Span * | 3 |
| NRSG 608 | Transformational Leadership and Complex Systems * | 3 |
| NRSG 681 | Advanced Practice Women's Health Care I | 3 |
| NRSG 682 | Advanced Practice Women's Health Care II | 3 |
| NRSG 683 | Advanced Practice Women's Health Care III | 3 |
| NRSG 684 | Advanced Practice Women's Health Care Clinical | 10 |
| TOTAL | 50 |
* Represents a core course for this specialty.