Transfer of Credit for Post-Graduate Certificate-Nurse Practitioner Students

Applicants who are accepted into a Post-Graduate Certificate-Nurse Practitioner program may be eligible to have one to three Core course requirements fulfilled with transfer credit when comparable graduate-level courses have previously been completed within the past five (5) calendar years from the date student starts in the program and when the student was enrolled in a programmatically accredited program. Practicing nurse practitioners who are nationally certified are exempt from the 5-year requirement.

Transfer credit eligibility is limited to fulfilling three Core course requirements: NGR5056 Advanced Health Assessment Across the Lifespan, NGR5149 Advanced Pathophysiology Across the Lifespan and NGR5172 Advanced Pharmacology Across the Lifespan.

• Advanced health assessment, which includes assessment of all human systems, advanced assessment techniques, concepts, and approaches.
• Advanced physiology/pathophysiology, which includes general principles that apply across the life span.
• Advanced pharmacology, which includes pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacotherapeutics of all broad categories of agents.

The student may be required to provide syllabi for review from the year the courses were completed. If the Dean of Post-Licensure Nursing determines transfer credit can be awarded, the grades will be posted on the student's transcript as transfer credit (TR) and the student will not be required to complete these courses at Rasmussen.