Family Nurse Practitioner

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:

1. Assume advanced nursing roles in clinical practice
2. Deliver competent health care to diverse populations within the community
3. 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
4. Design health promotion and disease prevention clinical programs for individuals and families in primary care settings
5. Evaluate nursing practice and health care to produce quality outcomes of evidence-based primary care services throughout the community
6. Demonstrate leadership in clinical practice
7. Use ethical decision making in the delivery of primary care services for vulnerable populations
8. Collaborate with intra and interdisciplinary professionals to achieve quality outcomes in nursing practice
9. Facilitate the use of evidence-based practice in nursing
10. Promote nursing as a profession and a discipline
11. Demonstrates scholarly inquiry through verbal and written communication in clinical scholarship