The Family Nurse Practitioner, M.S. program prepares advanced practice nurses to provide primary care to individuals across the lifespan and in a variety of settings.
Family Nurse Practitioner Program Goals
1. Integrate the scientific findings in nursing with the related sciences needed to fully analyze, design, implement, and evaluate nursing care.
2. Execute leadership by initiating, maintaining, and demonstrating skills in care coordination, delegation, and initiating conflict resolution strategies.
3. Promote safe, high quality care through the ability to monitor, analyze, and prioritize outcomes that need to be improved for individuals, families, communities and clinical populations.
4. Use critical reflection to translate evidence and integrate scholarship into advanced nursing practice.
5. Incorporate current technologies to deliver and coordinate care across multiple settings.
6. Apply requisite knowledge and skills to promote health, help shape the health delivery system, and advance values like social justice through policy processes and advocacy.
7. Actively communicate, collaborate, and consult with other health professionals to manage and coordinate care across systems.
8. Design and ensure the delivery of clinical prevention interventions and population-based care that promotes health, reduces the risk of chronic illness, and prevents disease.
9. Facilitate commitment to a culture of nursing excellence through lifelong personal and professional development.
10. Provide safe, effective primary care to individuals across the lifespan, in a range of healthcare environments.
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