Provide family-centered care
Our Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) track prepares you to address the health concerns of well, at-risk, and chronically ill individuals and their families. You will learn to provide direct care in collaboration with other healthcare professionals.
The FNP track embraces a unique narrative-centered learning environment that actively practices real-world problem solving. We believe the whole family is the identified unit of care, not simply the context for the care of one person.
When you graduate, you’ll find potential employment opportunities in:
- Collaborative clinical practice
- Nurse-managed clinics
- School-based clinics
- Occupational health
- Federally qualified health centers in both urban and rural settings
- Specialty practice community clinics
- Group clinical practice/HMOs
- Urgent/emergency room
- Prisons
The BSN-DNP Family Nurse Practitioner track is a three-year full-time or four-year part-time program of study that includes 66 credit hours and 1,005 clinical hours, 750 of which are direct patient care hours supervised by clinical faculty and an experienced preceptor. Clinical placements are arranged cooperatively by students and faculty. The remaining clinical hours are completed through the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a population health intervention for your evidence-based DNP project.