Program Overview

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.

Learning Outcomes

1. Develop new practice approaches based on nursing theory and theories borrowed from other disciplines to improve health and reduce health disparities locally, nationally, and globally.
2. Employ strategic leadership skills and inter-professional collaboration to influence health policy, advocate for social justice, and promote equity locally, nationally, and globally.
3. Implement ethical, cost effective, and evidence-based changes in care systems, while advancing the profession.
4. Provide leadership at the highest levels to design, direct and evaluate system changes to deliver and promote patient-centered care that is culturally competent, safe, timely, effective, efficient, and equitable.
5. Engage in complex, evidence-based advanced nursing practice, and evaluate innovative approaches to care delivery for individuals, communities, and populations.

Nurse Practitioner Competencies

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.

Program Structure

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. Requirements for admission to the Graduate School, including language proficiency, may be found in the Admission section.

Curriculum

Fall Year 1

• DNP 8004 Advanced Physiology and Pathophysiology
• DNP 9003 Foundations for Practice
• DNP 8023 Advanced Pharmacology

Spring Year 1

• DNP 8033 Advanced Assessment
• DNP 8053 Biostatistics
• DNPF 9513 FNP Competency Lab
• DNP 9013 Health Care Policy

Summer Year 1

• DNP 8043 Translational Research
• DNP 9023 Healthcare Informatics
• DNPF 9203 Diagnosis and Management I: Introduction to Diagnostic Reasoning

Fall Year 2

• DNP 9043 Organizational Leadership and Quality Improvement
• DNPF 9233 Diagnosis and Management II: Common Health Conditions in Primary Care
• DNPF 9243 Population Focus Family Nurse Practitioner I: Families
• DNPF 9222 FNP Practicum I

Spring Year 2

• DNPF 9213 Population Focus Family Nurse Practitioner II: Pediatrics
• DNP 9073 D.N.P. Project Proposal
• DNPF 9252 FNP Practicum II

Summer Year 2

• DNP 9063 Epidemiology
• DNPF 9263 Population Focus Family Nurse Practitioner III: Specialty
• DNPF 9272 FNP Practicum III

Fall Year 3

• DNP 9173 D.N.P. Project Design
• DNPF 9283 Community/Business Development Plan

Spring Year 3

• DNP 9083 Project Completion
• DNPF 9292 Population Focus Family NP Practicum IV
• DNPF 9293 Family Nurse Practitioner Practice Summation

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