FPCN-MSN_NURS-CONCENTRATION - Nursing MSN Family Primary Care Nurse Prac

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Program Title

Nursing MSN Family Primary Care Nurse Prac

Program Code

FPCN-MSN_NURS-CONCENTRATION

Degree Designation

Master of Science in Nursing

Campuses

Bloomsburg Campus

College

College of Health, Science, & Technology

Program Description

The Family/Individual Across the Lifespan Nurse Practitioner program has full and part time completion options. The program has met the American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) and American Association of Nurse Practitioner's (AANP) certification eligibility educational requirements. The patient population focus for the Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program includes all ages across the lifespan. Our FNP graduates will have the capabilities to practice in community and hospital based primary care clinics, schools, government health centers, urgent care and skilled care settings, among other health care settings.

Degree Designation

Graduate

Student Outcomes

1. Apply, integrate & synthesize scientific knowledge from nursing and related fields to provide comprehensive primary care services across diverse settings for the improvement of health of individuals throughout the lifespan.

2. Develop advanced skills in critical thinking and clinical reasoning to provide holistic developmentally appropriate and evidenced based health care practices to care for individuals and families.

3. Maximize effective communication skills, interprofessional collaboration, and patient care technology to plan and provide culturally competent, compassionate, holistic care through patient education, health promotion, and prevention of acute and chronic illnesses.

4. Generate and translate research findings as a basis for clinical decision making to transform health care.

5. Cultivate personal qualities and ethical behavior that emulates the accountability and disposition of the Family nurse practitioner.

6. Appraise established and emerging principles of improvement science in implementation, and evaluation of quality and safety as core nursing practice values to minimize risk of harm.

7. Influence equitable healthcare outcomes for populations of all ages through collaborative efforts with community partners resulting in population level health promotion, prevention and disease management