"What is a Nurse Practitioner?"
Focus
The focus of the family nurse practitioner option is to prepare advanced practice nurses who will manage the primary health care of families across the lifespan. Elements of the practitioner role blend with the unique features of rurality, rural nursing, and rural health care systems. Socialization to the advanced practice role emphasizes the development of a strong nursing identity and prepares the student for interdisciplinary collaboration.
Program Objectives
- Manage primary health care of individual families throughout the lifespan in environments characterized by sparse populations and limited health care resources.
- Demonstrate competency in collaborating with clients to meet their health care needs and goals.
- Demonstrate responsibility and accountability for clinical management decisions in accordance with the advanced practitioner role.
- Deliver nursing care based on theory and research to individuals and families in rural areas.
- Develop leadership roles within evolving health care delivery systems in rural areas.
- Participate in the process of analysis and investigation of nursing problems to develop new insights and build connections between theory, research and clinical practice.
- Develop proficiency in collaboration, referral and consultation with other disciplines and consumers.
- Demonstrate beginning skill in the role acquisition of the family nurse practitioner.
- Develop an active role in rural health care policy and implementation.
FNP 2-Year Program of Study
FNP 4-Year Program of Study
For More Information
For more information about the College of Nursing Master’s of Nursing graduate degree program and specific information about "Steps to Apply" please visit: http://www.montana.edu/nursing/academic/mn.php
