Family Nurse Practitioner
See How You Could Become A Family Nurse Practitioner
The Master of Science in Nursing with a specialization in Family Nurse Practitioner degree program (MSN) at South University’s West Palm Beach campus in Royal Palm Beach, FL, is designed to develop and enhance the knowledge and skills of registered nurses to help them pursue a more advanced position in their careers. With the focus on developing skills, students can be prepared to pursue becoming a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP). Courses are offered online.
Students can be ready to care for their patients across a lifetime. The FNP program focuses on primary care and cultivating healthy behaviors for a wide variety of patients across different ages. The skills that FNP students learn can prepare them to pursue work in a number of positions, such as those within a health care organization or a more educational setting, wherever best suits their careers.
Admission Requirements
Please see the South University academic catalog for program specific admissions requirements.Course Requirements
Outcomes
Graduates of the MSN in FNP will be able to:
- Synthesize theories and concepts from nursing and other disciplines for application in advanced nursing roles.
- Analyze current scientific research for application of findings to initiate change and to improve practice.
- Create comprehensive plans of action that address the health promotion and disease prevention needs of individual, family, and community populations.
- Formulate a plan for ongoing contributions to improvement of healthcare delivery and development of health policy in a cost-effective manner.
- Apply an ethical decision-making process in professional practice and an analysis of systems of healthcare.
- Model a professional leadership role that fosters improvement of healthcare and advocates scholarly activities to advance self and profession.
- Employ informatics and technology in various aspects of the advanced nursing leadership role.
- Practice within ethical-legal guidelines, professional policies and regulations, and standards of practice associated with a specialty area of advanced nursing practice.
Graduates of MSN program will be able to:
- Synthesize theories and concepts from nursing and other disciplines for application in advanced nursing roles.
- Analyze current scientific research for application of findings to initiate change and to improve practice.
- Create comprehensive plans of action that address the health promotion and disease prevention needs of individual, family, and community populations.
- Formulate a plan for ongoing contributions to improvement of healthcare delivery and development of health policy in a cost-effective manner.
- Apply an ethical decision-making process in professional practice and an analysis of systems of healthcare.
- Model a professional leadership role that fosters improvement of healthcare and advocates scholarly activities to advance self and profession.
- Employ informatics and technology in various aspects of the advanced nursing leadership role.
- Practice within ethical-legal guidelines, professional policies and regulations, and standards of practice associated with a specialty area of advanced nursing practice.
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