Drexel emergency NP clinical courses: NURS 673 to NURS 675

The emergency courses sit in two Drexel programs. Board-certified family nurse practitioners take them on their own as the Emergency/Trauma NP post-master's certificate. Students who are not yet FNPs take them after the family sequence, in the MSN or post-master's certificate called FNP with Emergency Specialization.

The 1,140 hours break down into 640 family hours, four FNP courses at 160 each, plus the 500 emergency hours the certificate states. The FNP-Emergency plan leaves out NURS 538, the 80-hour FNP V course. The family half is laid out on Drexel FNP clinical courses.

The certificate's catalog entry calls them 500 faculty-supervised clinical hours. Drexel does not publish how they divide among the three emergency courses, and 500 does not split evenly by three, so get each course's hour target from your track director before a preceptor plans your shifts.

The titles show the arc. NURS 673 and NURS 674 cover emergency and trauma care across the lifespan in two parts, and NURS 675 turns to trauma patients and the critically ill. Each carries 5.0 quarter credits.

In the FNP-Emergency sample plan, NUPR 520 comes in Fall of year 1, the four family courses run from Winter of year 2 through Fall of year 3, and the emergency courses follow in Winter, Spring and Summer of year 3. The catalog also suggests the certificate can shrink to 15.0 credits once earlier NP coursework is credited, yet it totals 25.0; your advisor can tell you which applies.

Drexel Online's certificate page names five kinds of emergency setting: emergency departments, urgent care, correctional health, trauma and critical care, and patient transport by air or ground. Supervised hours happen alongside licensed physicians and APNs working in accredited institutions.

Who can sign off is the same as on every Drexel NP track: NPs, certified nurse midwives and physicians in an approved specialty, each board certified, licensed where they work and at least a year into practice. Emergency physicians and NPs working in an ED or urgent care are the natural candidates; confirm that a physician's specialty is on Drexel's approved list. Physician assistants are not on Drexel's list, and they are not on Pennsylvania's § 21.373 list of CRNP preceptors either. Details are on Drexel preceptor requirements.

Drexel lists these settings without saying which course each one serves. Before you build a plan around transport or corrections, ask your track director which settings count toward which of the three courses.

Drexel describes the emergency intensives three different ways. Confirm yours before you book travel or promise a preceptor any dates.

• Drexel Online's certificate page: a two-day OCI in NURS 673, week one of the winter quarter.
• The CNHP certificate page: a three-day Simulation Experience attached to every emergency course, listed as Fall, Winter and Spring.
• The FNP-Emergency catalog: a one-day OCI in NURS 536 and a two-day OCI in NURS 673, both in week one of winter. The CNHP FNP-Emergency page instead says OCIs happen two to four times and last two to three days.

The catalog sample plan runs the emergency courses Winter, Spring and Summer, while the CNHP simulation list says Fall, Winter and Spring. Ask your track director which schedule applies to your cohort. All tracks are compared on Drexel On-Campus Intensives.

Both programs expect emergency experience before you start. The FNP-Emergency catalog asks for one to two years in the ED, critical care, urgent care or trauma as an RN or APRN, and the certificate asks for two years in those settings.

The certificate's entry rule is national board certification plus licensure as an FNP, while the course descriptions say the emergency courses serve the post-graduate FNP or AGPCNP. If you are an AGPCNP, ask admissions which statement governs.

Licensing is firmer here than on other Drexel NP pages. The FNP-Emergency catalog requires an unrestricted Pennsylvania RN license regardless of where you live, plus AHA BLS, ACLS and PALS before rotations. The Washington commission's list of Drexel tracks cleared for practice experiences leaves out the FNP-Emergency track and every certificate. See BLS, ACLS and PALS at Drexel.

Both emergency programs admit their next students for Fall 2027, the first semester term, so new students meet the semester numbers from the start. The 2027–28 catalog replaces the three quarter courses with a numbered emergency care series, NURS 7610, NURS 7611 and NURS 7612, worth 5.0 semester credits apiece. Clinical hours per course are not published.

Raise one catalog oddity early: NURS 7610 lists NURS 7604 as a prerequisite, a family course that certificate-only students do not take. If you start the certificate in Fall 2027, ask admissions how that prerequisite will be handled. The FNP-Emergency MSN becomes 58.0 semester credits, the Emergency/Trauma certificate 29.0 and the post-master's FNP-Emergency 49.0. Continuing students follow the individual transition plan their advisor builds; see the semester conversion.

Emergency placements need tighter matching than most: the preceptor has to fit Drexel's NP, CNM or physician rule, the department has to take an NP student in an acute setting, and your shifts have to work around the intensives. We search emergency departments, urgent care centers and trauma services near you, check every preceptor against Drexel's list, and pull together the credentials and agreement contact that Drexel's contracting team works from.

Final approval of preceptor, site and agreement rests with Drexel; our work is a file ready for that review from day one. When a shift pattern or preceptor changes mid-course, we are on call to rebuild the schedule. See the Emergency/Trauma NP certificate page or the FNP with Emergency Specialization page, then send your details through the request form.