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Delivery of this program is 100 percent online: Campus visits are not required for the graduate certificate but students are invited to the Advanced Assessment and Skills Workshop held in the Spring each year.
Successful completion of the graduate certificate in pediatric clinical nurse specialist requires 22.5 credit hours of course work and 630 clinical hours.
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The chart below shows when courses are traditionally offered. The University reserves the right to change or cancel courses as needed.
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States require that the University of Missouri-Columbia be authorized to deliver university-level distance/online education to their residents. Each state handles this process differently.
Please see our state authorization page for more information.