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Post Master’s Certificate in Nursing

The Post Master’s Certificate, Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program will provide interested master’s prepared nurses with the opportunity to take FNP specialty courses needed to qualify for APRN licensure and sit for the credential exam. The Post Master’s Certificate, Nurse Educator program provides master’s prepared nurses with the course work needed to assume a position in nursing education.

Careers

Family Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Educator

Program Learning Outcomes

Students completing the requirements for a Post Master’s Certificate in Nursing will be able to:

  1. Utilize knowledge from sciences, humanities, and nursing to promote health, prevent disease, and advocate and collaborate with interprofessional colleagues to provide health care to individuals, families, groups, and populations.
  2. Use organizational and systems frameworks; ethical decision-making; and effective working relationships to identify and address current healthcare and educational issues.
  3. Effectively integrate and communicate using written, oral, and electronic methods with clients, colleagues, and other stakeholders.
  4. Utilize leadership models and ethical decision-making skills to improve the quality of care provided in a variety of settings.
  5. Translate, integrate, and apply evidence-based practice and principles of quality improvement in a variety of care and educational settings.
  6. Integrate doctrines of cultural congruence into nursing interventions when working with individuals, families, groups, and/or populations.

Faculty

Lynette Landry, Ph.D., RN
Chair, Nursing and Health Sciences
Nursing Program Academic Advisor
Manzanita Hall, Room 1204
(805) 437-3150
lynette.landry@csuci.edu

LaSonya Davis, DNP, FNP, WHNP-BC
Associate Professor
Solano Hall 1176
(805) 437-3878
lasonya.davis@csuci.edu

Jaime Hannans, Ph.D., RN, CNE
Associate Professor
Solano 1172
(805) 437-3308
jaime.hannans@csuci.edu

Colleen Nevins, DNP, RN, CNE
Associate Professor
Manzanita 1206
(805) 437-2620
colleen.nevins@csuci.edu

Aaron McColpin, DPN, RN, FNP, RRT-NPS
Assistant Professor
Solano Hall 1160
(805) 437-2097
aaron.mccolpin@csuci.edu 

Charlene Niemi, PhD, RN, PHN, CNE
Assistant Professor
Solano Hall 1165
(805) 437-3877
charlene.niemi@csuci.edu

Jaime Lapeyre, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
Solano Hall 1226
(805) 437-3741
jaime.lapeyre@csuci.edu

 

Contact Information

http://nursing.csuci.edu
nursing@csuci.edu

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