In this course, doctors gain comprehensive knowledge of diseases of preterm and term infants including the underlying physiology and management. They also gain clinical competency in acute resuscitation and all procedures required in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The program is subdivided into 18 modules each having a series of lessons, with a total number of sixty-four lessons.

This course aims to improve neonatal clinical practice by enhancing the professional and ethical understanding, knowledge, and skill of neonatal nurses and midwives to provide evidence-based care better and optimize the healthy growth and developmental outcomes of neonates and their families.

This option is a 73 credit hour course of study designed to provide the baccalaureate-prepared nurse with an in-depth focus on health management of acutely and critically ill neonates and their families through studies in research, theory, cultural diversity, health policy, ethics, and leadership related to the role of the Advanced Practice Nurse.