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Post Master's Advanced Certificate Program

The Post Master's Advanced Certificate Program is designed for RNs with a clinical master's degree from an NLN accredited nursing program who want to become certified as:
  • Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (Program on HOLD)
  • Family Nurse Practitioner
  • Medical Surgical Clinical Nurse Specialist
  • Nurse Educator
  • Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Semester Begin Dates

  • Fall Semester begins in late August
  • Spring Semester begins in early January
  • Summer Semester begins in early May

About the Program

The College of Nursing offers three post master’s advanced certificate programs: Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist and Nurse Educator.

These two-, three- and four-semester programs prepare nurses for career opportunities available only to nurses with specialized education.

Expert faculty guide clinical learning under the preceptorship of experienced nurses, nurse practitioners and physicians in settings throughout Central New York. The College of Nursing has clinical contracts with more than 100 institutions and agencies. Students arrange their own preceptored sites with advisement from our faculty.

The College will accommodate students’ interests as long as the settings and preceptors meet the requirements of the post master’s program.

Although every effort is made to accommodate work and family schedules, applicants should enter the program when they have adequate time to fulfill the required clinical hours.

The Center for Continuing Nursing Education in the College of Nursing awards the certificate upon successful completion of the post master’s program.

 


Barbara Black, MA, MS, RN, ANP, Director, Center for
Continuing Education
Barbara Black, MA, MS, RN, ANP,
Director, Center for Continuing Education
CONTACT:
Office of Student Admissions
1215 Weiskotten Hall
SUNY Upstate Medical University
admiss@upstate.edu
315 464-4570
Carolyn Baskerville, RN, BS, MS, Post-Master's, 04, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
"After being in the Air Force reserves, I came out of retirement to pursue further education. I would like to teach, and the Post Master's work supports that. Nursing truly is a life-long opportunity, both in what you want to do and the fact that you can take your career anywhere in the country"

Carolyn Baskerville, RN, BS, MS, Post-Master's, 04, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner