MSN Nurse Practitioner Programs
Family Nurse Practitioner Track
Master of Science in Nursing: 59 quarter credits; 720 clinical hours
The Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) track focuses on the application of advanced-practice nursing knowledge—including physical, psychosocial, and environmental assessment skills—to manage common health and illness problems of clients of all ages. It emphasizes health promotion and disease prevention. Family nurse practitioners primarily practice in ambulatory-care settings, such as primary care clinics, physician offices, HMOs, outpatient clinics, schools, nursing centers, emergency departments, long-term care facilities, industry, the armed services, public health departments, correctional institutions, and home health agencies.
Students in this Track take online core and support courses with the exception of NURS 550: Advanced Physical Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning and NURS 556: Pharmacology for Family Nurse Practitioners. Subsequent clinical courses are taken on-campus. Graduates of the program are eligible to sit for the ANCC’s Family Nurse Practitioner Examination and/or the AANP’s Family Nurse Practitioner Examination.
The nurse practitioner faculty is committed to quality and excellence in the nurse practitioner (NP) programs. Mandatory on-campus visits are essential to students transitioning into the NP role. The NP programs provide two on-campus clinical orientations to prepare students for clinical practice rotation. Following clinical orientation, these mandatory on-campus visits occur during the following times:
- 2nd Year, Spring Term – students come in during the N550: Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning course for midterm and final check-out.
- 2nd Year, Summer Term – students come in during the first clinical course for the Residency Week.
- 3rd Year, Fall Term – students come in during the second clinical course for 2-3 days for a standardized patient lab experience (SPL) and/or human patient simulation experience, depending on the program.
- 3rd Year, Winter Term – students come in during the third clinical course for 2-3 days for a second standardized patient lab experience (SPL) and/or human patient simulation experience, depending on the program.
- 3rd Year, Spring Term – students come in during the fourth clinical course for the second Residency Week.
- 3rd Year, Summer Term – students come in for a one-day simulation experience.
For more information about this program, visit Drexel's MSN Nurse Practitioner Programs web page.
Curriculum
MSN - Family Nurse Practitioner Track
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| NURS 500 | Confronting Issues in Contemporary Health Care Environments | 3.0 | ||
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| NURS 502 | Advanced Ethical Decision Making in Health Care | 3.0 | ||
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| NURS 526 | Information Innovation and Technology for Advanced Nursing Practice | 3.0 | ||
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| NURS 527 | Evidence-Based Approaches to Practice | 3.0 | ||
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| RSCH 519 | Introduction to Biostatistics | 3.0 | ||
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| RSCH 523 | Methods for Health Research | 3.0 | ||
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| NURS 548 | Advanced Pathophysiology | 3.0 | ||
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| NURS 549 | Advanced Pharmacology | 3.0 | ||
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| NURS 550 | Advanced Physical Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning | 4.0 | ||
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| NURS 556 | Pharmacology for Family Nurse Practitioners | 3.0 | ||
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| NURS 664 | Professional Issues for Nurse Practitioners | 1.0 | ||
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| NURS 575 | Family Nurse Practitioner I: Primary Care of Infants, Children and Adolescents | 5.0 | ||
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| NURS 578 | Family Nurse Practitioner II: Primary Care of Women | 5.0 | ||
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| NURS 576 | Family Nurse Practitioner III: Primary Care of Adults | 5.0 | ||
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| NURS 577 | Family Nurse Practitioner IV: Primary Geriatric Care | 5.0 | ||
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| NURS 579 | Family Nurse Practitioner IV: Integrative Practicum in Family Practice | 4.0 | ||
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| Elective | 3.0 | |||
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