Overview
The Post-Graduate Emergency Nurse Practitioner Certificate program prepares Family Nurse Practitioners (FNP) and eligible FNP students to deliver expert, high-acuity care across diverse emergency and urgent care settings.
The Emergency Nurse Practitioner (ENP) focuses on delivering high-quality, timely and comprehensive care to patients across the lifespan in a variety of emergency and urgent care settings. The ENP is equipped to recognize and manage emergent and life-threatening conditions, perform advanced diagnostics and interventions, and respond with confidence in high-pressure environments. The role is expanding into non-traditional, prehospital environments such as EMS and mobile integrated healthcare. Emergency care is defined not by location but by the need for immediate evaluation and treatment of unexpected illness or injury, and this certificate empowers nurse practitioners to lead that care.
Career opportunities include emergency departments ranging from critical access hospitals to large academic medical centers, free-standing emergency care facilities, urgent care centers, mobile integrated healthcare units, prehospital and EMS settings, and even frontier and wilderness environments.
NP credentialing - Graduates are eligible to apply to take the American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners Certificate board exam.
The following information regarding this specialty professional graduate certificate track is accurate at the time of publication but is subject to change.
Emergency Nurse Practitioner Certificate
| Number | Course Name | Credit Hrs |
| NRSG 655 | Emergency Care and Trauma I | 3 |
| NRSG 656 | Emergency Care and Trauma II | 3 |
| NRSG 657 | Emergency Care and Trauma III | 3 |
| NRSG 658 | Emergency Care Practicum and Clinical Inquiry | 7 |
| TOTAL | 16 |