Family Nurse Practitioner

* Curriculum currently under revision, Fall 2018

Elizabeth Courts, Assistant Professor and Director, Family Nurse Practitioner Program
Health & Life Sciences Building, Office 159, (540) 665-5502, ecourts@su.edu

The FNP Program is designed to provide the nurse with the necessary knowledge, skills, values, meanings and experiences to assume the role of a primary health care provider in a variety of clinical settings. Didactic and clinical course content focuses on assessment and management of health promotion and health maintenance strategies, risk reduction, common acute and chronic alterations in health status for individuals and families across the lifespan and role development. Clinical experiences are provided in a wide variety of ambulatory and community rural and medically underserved health care settings appropriate for the Family Nurse Practitioner student. There are approximately 700 clinical hours in the program. Graduates of this program are eligible to take the national certification exam given by either the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).

In addition to the 22 credits of required MSN core courses, the Family Nurse Practitioner requires 26 credit hours of specialty courses:

MSN Core Requirements

N 506 Data Analysis and Interpretation I Credit(s): 3
N 512 Theory, Research and Reasoning I Credit(s): 3
N 521 Theory, Research and Reasoning II Credit(s): 3
N 532 Roles and Issues in Advanced Practice Credit(s): 3
N 550 Advanced Pharmacology and Therapeutics Credit(s): 3
N 560 Advanced Concepts in Physiology and Pathophysiology Credit(s): 3
N 580 Advanced Health Promotion and Assessment Across the Lifespan Credit(s): 4

Courses

NP 570 Applied Pharmacology and Therapeutics Credit(s): 2 *
(taken concurrently with NPBL 570)
NPLB 580 Advanced Assessment Lab Credit(s): 1 *
NP 610 Primary Care of Families I Credit(s): 3
NP 620 Primary Care of Families II Credit(s): 3
NP 630 Primary Care of Women and Children Credit(s): 3
NPLB 650 Primary Care of Families Practicum I Credit(s): 3 *
NPLB 670 Primary Care of Families Practicum II Credit(s): 3 *
NPLB 680 Primary Care Advanced Practicum Credit(s): 4 *
NP 690 Advanced Nurse Practitioner Role Development Credit(s): 1
Graduate Elective Credit(s): 3

Program Total: 48 credits

*This course includes clinical experiences. The ratio of clinical to clock hours is 1 clinical hour = 4 clock hours.

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MSN Core Requirements

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Program Total: 48 credits