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The Family/Individual Across the Lifespan Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program prepares graduates as primary care providers within the expanded scope of advanced nursing practice. Students acquire the clinical and experiential knowledge and competencies that serve as the foundation for evidence-based provision of primary care across the lifespan. The program provides students with a broad range of clinical experiences designed to prepare students to work in diverse outpatient primary health care settings including ambulatory, acute, and long-term care settings.
The FNP diagnoses and manages acute episodic and chronic illnesses, with an emphasis on health promotion/disease prevention, teaching and coaching. Christian moral and ethical principles serve as the guide for care-giving, communication, collaboration, and decision making as an FNP. The integration of nursing science with the best practices evidenced by other disciplines (including medicine, ethics, economics, and public health) will produce an FNP who can not only provide individual direct care services, but also produce a positive impact on the health of individuals, families, populations, and the health care system.
The core, advanced core, and specialty courses include content based on diversity/equity/inclusion, interdisciplinary team approach, natural and man-made disasters, emergency preparedness, self-care management, implicit bias, structural racism, emerging technologies, risk mitigation, protection of personal health data, and social justice in order to prepare the FNP for the future in health care.
Upon graduation, FNP graduates are eligible to take the Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination offered by both the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). The required 60-hour advanced pharmacology course exceeds the minimum 45 hours required for prescriptive authority in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and includes four hours of mandatory opioid education.
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