The family nurse practitioner online nursing master's program is comprised of a 48 credit hour curriculum (24 didactic and 18 credit hours blended learning didactic and clinical, and 6 hours for clinical practice internship). The total number of clinical hours upon completion of the program is 720. Prior to admission to clinical, students will need to complete their basic online nursing master's program FNP courses: NURS510, NURS520, NURS530, NURS532, NURS550, NURS590, NURS592, and NURS594 (all offered on an 8-week bi-term schedule). Students will experience a blended learning approach with both didactic online classwork in the addition of completion of 120 clinical hours per course in the courses NURS670, NURS672, and NURS674. The course NURS690 will provide a 360 clinical hour concentrated clinical internship. A listing of the online nursing master's program course titles and credit hours per course is listed below.
Required Courses
- NURS 510 Theoretical Basis for Advanced Nursing Practice (3 hours)
- NURS 520 Issues in Advanced Practice (3 hours)
- NURS 530 Epidemiology (3 hours)
- NURS 532 Healthcare Technologies and Informatics in Advanced Nursing Practice (3 hours)
- NURS 550 Advanced Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice (3 hours)
- NURS 590 Advanced Pharmacology (3 hours)
- NURS 592 Advanced Health Assessment (3 hours)
- NURS 594 Advanced Pathophysiology (3 hours)
- NURS 670 FNP Advanced Practice I (6 hours)
- NURS 672 FNP Advanced Practice Il (6 hours)
- NURS 674 FNP Advanced Practice Ill (6 hours)
- NURS 690 FNP Advanced Practice Internship (6 hours)