An Advanced MSN Degree for Career-Minded Nurse Practitioners Specializing in Women’s Health

Nurses who earn an MSN through Drexel Online’s Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Track are able to provide advanced care to women throughout the female lifespan with a specialized emphasis on reproductive and gynecologic health needs. Our program’s learned and experienced graduatesare also qualified to provide a myriad of women’s services focusing on health promotion and disease prevention and range from well-woman care, prenatal and postpartum care, and common and complex women’s health issues in both primary settings and women's health specialty practices.

The WHNP is well positioned to improve the health and quality of life for women of all ages while recognizing their individual physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Developed and taught by the acclaimed faculty at Drexel’s nationally ranked College of Nursing and Health Professions (CNHP).

The Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. The program prepares nurse practitioners for roles as advanced-practice clinicians, educators, researchers, and leaders in a collaborative and multi-disciplinary healthcare environment. Our program is designed to embrace the competencies and skill sets required for today's versatile nurse practitioner as medical knowledge expands, healthcare systems evolve and technology advances in response to health care needs and evidence-based research.

Upon graduation, Drexel’s WHNPonline program produces highly competent, confident, and well prepared advanced nurse practitioners. This high-quality degree demands a major commitment of time by advanced practicing nursing students and combines the convenience ofrigourous synchronous on line didactic classes with a precepted hands on clinical component to effectively teach students to diagnose and manage health promotion and health issues of women from adolescence to older adulthood.

Students are required to participate in manadatory on-campus visits to to ensure full comprehension of imperative concepts and skills. Students are required to be on campus once per quarter, starting with the NURS 550: Advanced Physical Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning course and throughout all clinical practicum courses including NURS 690, 691, 692, and 693. When students come to campus they participate in transdisciplinarysimulated clinical learning experiences with Drexel University College of Medicine conducted in CNHP’s new state-of-the-art multidisciplinary patient simulation lab. Drexel’s MSN for Women’s Health Nurse Practitioners are distinguished from the rest.

Features and Benefits 

• Synchronous online lectures are offered in a highly-interactive e-learning method that both challenges and engages advanced students
• Fully accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), One Dupont Circle NW, Suite 530, Washington, DC 20036. (202) 887-6791.
• An experienced and board certified faculty from Drexel’s acclaimed College of Nursing and Health Professions
• On completion of the program, students are eligible for Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Certification through the National Certification Corporation (NCC)

Mentoring and experiential learning with mandatory on-campus visits:  

• NURS 550 – Advanced Physical Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning: Students are required to come to campus twice during the course: once for a midterm assessment and evaluation, and again at the end of the course for a final re-demonstration of clinical assessment skills ◦Clinical Orientation coincides with the last day of the
• NURS 550 on-campus visit. Please note, all post-Master’s students are required to attend the clinical orientation day.
• NURS 690 WHNP I – 2- 5-day Summer Residency
• NURS 691 WHNP II – 2-day Fall Simulation Experience
• NURS 692 WHNP III – 2-day Winter Simulation Experience
• NURS 693 WHNP IV –2- 5-day Spring Residency

Drexel also offers special tuition plans for employees of health system partners—please ask your employer if you qualify for discounted tuition with Drexel.

Drexel’s elite MSN in Women’s Health for nurse practitioners is a 58-credit graduate track with a 640-clinical hour requirement. Clinical practicum courses consist of two parts: simultaneously-ran didactic lectures and clinical practicum rotations. The didactic lectures are held once a week online for three hours. Each clinical practicum course has a required 160 total clinical hours. Students typically complete two eight-hour clinical days each week.

*Please note: We do not accept New York residents into this program due to the clinical requirements.

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