Family Nurse Practitioner Certificate (Post-Master's)

Nurse Administrator Certificate

Curriculum Requirements - Total Credits Required: 15

• NUR 510 - Organization and Structure of Nursing Leadership (Cr: 3)
  

• NUR 526 - Nurse as the Administrator (Cr: 3)
  

• NUR 532 - Administration: Practice and Quality Outcomes (Cr: 3)
  

• NUR 585 - Masters in Nursing Internship in Administrator Role, Educator Role and or Global Health Role (Cr: 6)
  

Nurse Educator Certificate

Curriculum Requirements - Total Credits Required: 15

• NUR 505 - Curriculum Design, Course Development, and Program Evaluation (Cr: 3)
  

• NUR 561 - Nurse as the Educator (Cr: 3)
  

• NUR 565 - Teaching Methods: Principles of Teaching (Cr: 3)
  

• NUR 585 - Masters in Nursing Internship in Administrator Role, Educator Role and or Global Health Role (Cr: 6)
  

Family Nurse Practitioner Certificate

Curriculum Requirements - Total Credits Required: 27

• NUR 550 - Pathophysiology of Human Disease for Advanced Nursing Practice (Cr: 3)
  

• NUR 551 - Comprehensive Health Assessment and Clinical Diagnostic Decision Making (Cr: 3)
  

• NUR 562 - Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics for Family Nurse Practitioner (Cr: 3)
  

• NUR 566 - Seminar for the Professional Nurse Practitioner (Cr: 2)
  

• NUR 567 - Primary Care of the Childbearing Family (Cr: 3)
  

• NUR 568 - Primary Care of the Childbearing Family Practicum (Cr: 5)
  

• NUR 569 - Primary Care of the Adult and Geriatric Patient (Cr: 3)
  

• NUR 570 - Primary Care of the Adult and Geriatric Patient Practicum (Cr: 5)
  

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the program, students will:

• Integrates scientific findings from nursing and other disciplines for the continual improvement of nursing care across diverse settings.
• Demonstrate a repertoire of skills and strategies to implement organizational and systems leadership critical to the promotion of high quality and safe patient care.
• Applies the methods, tools, performance measures, and standards related to quality, as well as quality principles within an organization.
• Apply research outcomes within the practice setting, to resolve practice problems, working as a change agent to disseminate results.
• Utilize patient-care technologies to deliver and enhance care, using communication technologies to integrate and coordinate care
• Integrates and advocates for ethical, legal and professional standards of practice and intervenes at the systems level through the policy development process.
• Communicates, collaborates, and consults with other health professionals to manage and coordinate care within the Interprofessional team
• Applies and integrates broad, organizational, client-centered, and ethnically and culturally appropriate concepts in the planning, delivery, management, and evaluation of evidence-based clinical prevention and population care including services to individuals, families, and aggregates
• Influences healthcare outcomes for individuals, populations, or systems through evidenced based nursing practice as well as the ability to integrate knowledge and formulate interventions into both direct and indirect patient care.

Reference: American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2011). The essentials of master's education in nursing. Retrieved from aacnnursing.org/portals/42/publications/mastersessentials11.pdf

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