Student Learning Outcomes
1. Contribute to the science of nursing by identifying disparities, formulating research questions, integrating scientific findings to create evidence based solutions to nursing problems in one’s specialty area of practice.
2. Advance the profession by demonstrating best practices in leadership and articulate standards that incorporate systems-based thinking that benefits quality and safety of patient outcomes.
3. Integrate specialty knowledge and skills unique to one’s area of advanced nursing practice to deliver safe, high-quality care to diverse populations thereby facilitating human flourishing.
4. Model excellence as a nursing leader who effects needed change in one’s specialty area of practice and helps shape a preferred future for nursing and healthcare.
5. Utilize technology to ethically enhance, integrate and coordinate care.
6. Integrate knowledge of socio-cultural-political contexts and determinants of health to improve the health of diverse populations as well as advocate for healthcare policies which improve the health of the public within one’s specialty area.
7. Within one’s advanced practice role, participate in inter-professional communication, collaboration, and evaluation to manage and coordinate ethically sound patient and population-centered care.
MSN: Family Nurse Practitioner
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MSN Core Courses | ||
| NURS 520 | Professional Transitions and Healthcare Advocacy | 3 |
| NURS 530 | Nurse as Scholar: Evidenced-Based Practice | 3 |
| NURS 550 | Population Health in a Global Society | 3 |
| NURS 560 | Advanced Pathophysicology Across the Lifespan | 3 |
| NURS 580 | Pharmacotherapeutics Across the Lifespan | 3 |
| NURS 590 | Advanced Concepts of Health Assessment | 3 |
| NURS 650 | Practicum I | 2 |
| NURS 750 | Practicum II | 3 |
| NURS 790 | MSN Capstone | 1 |
| Family Nurse Practitioner Track | ||
| NURS 540 | Information and Healthcare Technologies | 3 |
| NURS 605 | Health Promotion and Maintenance in Advanced Practice Family Nursing | 2 |
| NURS 615 | Family Assessment, Theory, and Practice | 1 |
| NURS 630 | Advanced-Practice Family Nursing: Primary Care Approaches for Women | 3 |
| NURS 640 | Advanced-Practice Family Nursing: Management of Acute Illnesses | 3 |
| NURS 740 | Advanced-Practice Family Nursing: Primary Care Approaches for Children | 3 |
| NURS 760 | Advanced-Practice Family Nursing: Management of Chronic Illness | 3 |
| NURS 770 | Advanced-Practice Family Nursing: Practicum III | 4 |
| Total Credits | 46 | |