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Online BSN-DNP Family Nurse Practitioner

Lead family care with expertise.

The University of Indianapolis BSN-DNP Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) online track awards this terminal degree to BSN-prepared nurses who want to achieve the highest-level proficiency in family practice and influence quality improvements in health care.

Advantages

• Part-time online format designed to accommodate working nurses
• The Clinical team will work with you to help you identify and secure a placement site
• Develop expert clinical skills to care for patients of all ages, with a focus on family health
• Prepare for an influential and independent role as a primary care provider and health systems leader
• Accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education

About the Online BSN-DNP FNP Track

With a BSN-DNP degree in Family Nurse Practitioner from the University of Indianapolis, you’ll be qualified to autonomously deliver complex care for patients across the lifespan and use your health system leadership and translational research skills to improve patient outcomes.

Track Length & Format

The online BSN-DNP FNP track is 62 credit hours, with 1,050 - 1,250 clinical and practicum hours, and is completed on a full-time or part-time basis. It can be completed in 10 consecutive semesters.

This track is online, non-clinical courses are asynchronous and clinical courses are synchronous. Students will be required to come to campus for periodic checkoffs in their health assessment and diagnostics courses. In compliance with new competency-based accreditation requirements, students may also need to come to campus for Observed Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) learning experiences during their clinical courses.

Online BSN-DNP FNP Sample Courses

UIndy's School of Nursing provides one-on-one advising through these courses:

Advanced Health Assessment (4 credits)

This course has both didactic and laboratory components. The course prepares the student to conduct comprehensive health assessments of patients throughout the life span. Comprehensive health parameters are applied to the assessment process. Students perform detailed health histories, family histories, physical examinations, and selected screening and prevention/wellness skills. Clinical reasoning development and differentiation between normal and abnormal findings are emphasized. Integrated throughout the course are principles of health promotions/wellness, illness prevention, and early detection.

Pediatric Primary Care (3 credits) 80 Clinical Hours

This course contains both a didactic and clinical component. The focus of the course includes assessment, diagnosis, and management of selected common acute and chronic health problems in the pediatric population. Throughout this course, there will be an emphasis on rendering competent and relevant family-centered advanced practice care to infants, children, and adolescents (pediatric population) in the primary care setting. The impact of illness on the pediatric client’s quality of life, cultural, and family role is included. There is an emphasis on illness prevention, health promotion, maintenance, and restoration. Included in each unit of study are definitions, etiology, clinical features, laboratory studies, differential diagnoses, complications, and treatment—including pharmacological agents. Pediatric client and family education, community resources, and follow-up procedures are integrated throughout each unit. Application of research findings and clinical reasoning skills are required. Prerequisites and/or corequisites: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor

Advanced Practice Across the Lifespan (5 credits) 190 Clinical Hours

This course has both didactic and clinical components. The focus of this course is the assessment, diagnosis, and management of complex acute and chronic health problems in individuals across the life span. Emphasis is placed on the management of complex individuals/patients with chronic and multiple co-morbidities. The importance of rendering competent and relevant advanced practice care to individuals across the life span in primary care and appropriate health care settings is stressed. The impact of illness on the client’s quality of life, cultural and family role is included and emphasized. There is an emphasis on illness prevention, health promotion, maintenance, and restoration. Included in each unit of study are definitions, etiology, clinical features, laboratory studies, differential diagnoses, complications, and treatment, such as pharmacological agents. Attention is given to the integration and application of advanced health assessment and critical-thinking skills, developmental and family theories, and health promotion strategies in the diagnostic and clinical management processes of the family nurse practitioner role. Client education, community resources, and follow-up procedures are also integrated throughout each unit. Application of evidence-based findings and clinical reasoning skills are required.

Primary Care Transition to Advanced Practice (4 credits) 240 Clinical Hours

This class is a culminating practicum experience that is designed to facilitate students in their transition to advanced practice in primary care. The student will be able to apply scientific, ethical, theoretical, and evidence-based practice guidelines to the multifaceted patient, family, and community situations. Application of organizational management principles to the advanced practice role and other issues pertinent to professional role transition is emphasized.

When Can I Start?

There are 2 intakes: Fall and Spring

Admission Requirements

• BSN degree from an accredited institution
• Unencumbered RN license
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0
• 1 year of full-time work experience prior to starting clinicals
• Letter of recommendation
• Essay

View the full admission requirements and admission process.

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