Family Nurse Practitioner, D.N.P.

The Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Program prepares nurses for Advanced Practice in providing primary care across the lifespan. The FNP program provides intensive preparation to provide comprehensive primary care with an interdisciplinary focus. The program prepares students using didactic learning, laboratory skills, human patient simulation, and extensive clinical experiences providing care for all ages of patients.

Clinical time in underserved population clinics, urgent care, and specialty clinic rotations provide the student with exposure to patients and skills needed for practice. Clinical sites are arranged by faculty to provide the best learning opportunity.

Graduates of the FNP program will be eligible to sit for Board Exams from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Program Option Learning Outcomes

In addition to instruction to meet the Student Learning Outcomes, graduates of the FNP program option are provided sufficient didactic and clinical instruction to meet the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Population-Focused Nurse Practitioner Competencies- Family/Across the Lifespan (NONPF, 2013). The competencies include population focused competencies in Scientific Foundation, Leadership, Quality, Practice Inquiry, Technology & Information Literacy, Policy, Health Delivery Systems, Ethics, and Independent Practice.

The course load each semester is between 6-12 credit hours. Students are considered as full-time students throughout the program.

Admission

Requirements for admission to the FNP program may be found on the School of Nursing page in this Bulletin. Requirements for admission to the Graduate School, including language proficiency, may be found in the Admission section of this Bulletin.