Post-Doctoral Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) Certificate

Upon completion of the certificate program, the student will demonstrate the ability to:

1. Knowledge for Nursing Practice: Integrate nursing science with knowledge from biophysical, psychosocial, analytical, ethics, and organizational sciences as the basis for advanced practice nursing using new approaches to care delivery.
2. Systems-Based Practice, Quality and Safety: Create and lead high quality and safe nursing care in a complex global health care environment.
3. Scholarship for Nursing Practice: Create and disseminate knowledge in evidence-informed practice.
4. Information Systems and Healthcare Technologies: Evaluate emerging technologies for their ability to improve health care outcomes.
5. Person-Centered Care: Evaluate health policy and advocate for social justice and access to health care, especially for Hawai’ian and Pacific Islanders and other unique populations. 
6. Interprofessional Partnerships: Create collaborative interprofessional relationships to improve patient and population health outcomes with an emphasis on select populations including Hawai’ian and Pacific Islanders.
7. Population Health: Evaluate the social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of population health in practice patterns/systems.
8. Advanced Practice Nursing: Professionalism; Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development: Independently assess, diagnose, treat, and manage culturally diverse populations.