About This Major
A program that prepares registered nurses to provide prenatal care to pregnant women and to mothers and their newborn infants. Includes instruction in perinatal and newborn health assessment, stabilization, and care; pathophysiology of pregnancy, fetuses, and the newborn; clinical management of high-risk pregnancies and newborns; perinatal and neonatal technology and clinical procedures; and patient education.
Program Examples
- Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
At a Glance
- CIP Code
- 51.3806
- CIP Family
- 51
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