Patrick Hopkins, DNP, APRN, C-PNP, NNP is an Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing and serves as the specialty director of the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program. He previously held the position of Co-Director of the Accelerated Program for Non-Nurses, an intensive program that prepares students who already have a bachelor’s degree for a career in nursing. He teaches pathophysiology in the accelerated bachelor’s program and content on the care of children and families in the pediatric nurse and family nurse practitioner programs.