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Aug 31, 2024
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Graduate Catalog-Handbook 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Family Nurse Practitioner
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Mount Carmel’s College of Nursing Family Nurse Practitioner Program is designed for RN’s who are ready to pursue graduate education that will lead to a primary care focused advanced practice nursing role. The Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) provides comprehensive primary health care services to individuals from infancy through adulthood. FNPs are prepared to provide care to individuals with acute illnesses such as bronchitis or minor infections and chronic illnesses such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity. Preventive health services, patient education, disease management and other health initiatives are provided to heal the body, mind and spirit within the context of family and community. The goal of the FNP program is to prepare highly skilled and culturally sensitive advanced practice nurses who are committed to providing quality, cost-effective primary care services to individuals, families and communities.
Students graduating from the Family Nurse Practitioner track will be eligible for American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) certification examination for Family Nurse Practitioner.
Student Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the Family Nurse Practitioner track, graduates will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Assume advanced nursing roles in clinical practice
- Deliver competent health care to diverse populations within the community
- Use epidemiological, social, and environmental data to draw inferences to effectively assist patients in achieving and/or maintaining optimal health or to stabilize chronic conditions
- Design health promotion and disease prevention clinical programs for individuals and families in primary care settings
- Evaluate nursing practice and health care to produce quality outcomes of evidence-based primary care services throughout the community
- Demonstrate leadership in clinical practice
- Use ethical decision making in the delivery of primary care services for vulnerable populations
- Collaborate with intra and interdisciplinary professionals to achieve quality outcomes in nursing practice
- Facilitate the use of evidence-based practice in nursing
- Promote nursing as a profession and a discipline
- Demonstrates scholarly inquiry through verbal and written communication in clinical scholarship
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Family Nurse Practitioner curriculum
Graduate Core: 13 credit hours
Direct Care Core: 9 credit hours
Functional Area Core: 27 credit hours
Curriculum Plans
Family Nurse Practitioner students must follow the Full-Time or Part-Time curriculum plans.
Notes:
- NURS 501 OR NURS 503 must be taken as one of the first courses in the program.
- When completing the preceptored practicum, students must meet the compliance requirements of all agencies.
- NURS 598 - Scholarly Manuscript Completion : if the scholarly manuscript is not satisfactorily completed at the time of course completion, students must enroll in NURS 598 (see policy ).
Total of 48 credit hours / 650 clinical hours
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