Women’s Health Nurse
Practitioner/ Adult Nurse
Practitioner (WHNP/ANP)
Dual Certification
Do you want to meet the unique health care needs of women but also deliver primary health care to men –
caring for both patient populations from adolescence through advanced years? This program prepares you for dual certification and practice in a variety of primary
care settings.
What Will You Do as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner with Clinical Certification?
With dual certification as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner and Adult Nurse Practitioner, you will be prepared for delivering primary health care to both women and men. You will meet the unique health care needs of women, including reproductive-gynecologic health, while providing primary health care as well to male patients ages 12 and up.
How Will Vanderbilt Prepare You for Practice?
Curriculum from the Vanderbilt School of Nursing Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Program addresses a range of issues including normal pregnancy and prenatal management, clinical management of family planning, well woman health care and menopause. Health problems including oncology, substance abuse and violence against women are also addressed. The primary emphasis is on health maintenance of women throughout the lifespan.
The Adult Nurse Practitioner Program curriculum prepares you to assess, diagnose and manage common acute and chronic adult health problems, with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention. Students will gain an understanding of the U.S. health care delivery system.
You will be exposed to a group of professional faculty members who combine classroom instruction with hands-on clinical practice experience for a wider frame of reference in advanced practice settings. The nurse practitioner, upon graduation, collaborates with physicians and other health team members to provide care within a health care delivery system using approved protocols.
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for further information.
Program Directors
Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Program
Janie Daddario, MSN, APRN, BC
Women's Health Nurse Practitioner
Certified as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner and the recipient of the Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award and the Instructor of the Year Award, Professor Daddario brings to Vanderbilt a high level of experience and expertise in both nursing practice and education. Her research interests include high-risk obstetrics, adolescent gynecology and menopause.
Adult Nurse Practitioner Program
Leslie Coleman, MSN, APRN, BC
Professor Coleman is a board certified nurse practitioner who specializes in adult primary care and cardiovascular disease risk management and treatment. She joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in 1994 in a joint practice and academic role. Professor Coleman has practiced in a variety of settings ranging from a rural family practice to an urban, indigent care clinic. Currently, she practices with Summit Medical Associates (SMA), a group of fifteen internal medicine and family practice physicians in the Nashville area. She has been instrumental in helping to develop the Adult Nurse Practitioner program with the multiple areas of focus for students. Content for these focus areas is coordinated by faculty with specific expertise in the different options. Professor Welch-Coleman works closely with the faculty to provide students with a broad base of adult primary care knowledge. She coordinates clinical rotations for students in a wide variety of settings in Tennessee and around the country
