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Master of Nursing
Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Option
"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 will be blended with the unique features
of rurality, rural nursing, and rural health care systems. Socialization to
the advanced practice role will emphasize the development of a strong nursing
identity and will also prepare the student for interdisciplinary collaboration.
Program Objectives
- Manage primary health care of individuals 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.
- Develops 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.
- Develops proficiency in collaboration, referral and consultation with other
disciplines and consumers.
- Demonstrate beginning skill in the role acquisition of the family nurse
practitioner.
- Develops an active role in rural health care policy and implementation.
 Schedule
and Program of Study
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