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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.  

Graduates of the program are eligible to sit for ANCC’s Family Nurse Practitioner Examination and /or AANP’s Family Nurse Practitioner Examination.

M.S.N. - Family Nurse Practitioner Track

Core courses		Credits
NURS 500	Confronting Issues in Contemporary Health Care Environments	3.0
NURS 502	Advanced Ethical Decision Making in Health Care	3.0
RSCH 519	Introduction to Biostatistics	3.0
RSCH 523	Methods for Health Research	3.0
NURS 526	Information, Innovation and Technology in Advanced Nursing Practice	3.0
NURS 527	Evidence-Based Approaches to Practice	3.0
Support courses
NURS 548	Advanced Pathophysiology	3.0
NURS 549	Advanced Pharmacology	3.0
NURS 550	Advanced Physical Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning	4.0
NURS 556	Pharmacology for Family Nurse Practitioners	3.0
NURS 664	Professional Seminar for Nurse Practitioners	1.0
Elective
	Elective	3.0
Clinical Courses
NURS 575	Family Nurse Practitioner I: Primary Care of Infants, Children and Adolescents	5.0
NURS 578	Family Nurse Practitioner II: Primary Care of Women	5.0
NURS 576	Family Nurse Practitioner III: Primary Care of Adults	5.0
NURS 577	Family Nurse Practitioner IV: Primary Geriatric Care	5.0
NURS 579	Family Nurse PractitionerIV: Integrative Practicum in Family Practice	4.0