Family Nurse Practitioner
Graduate Certificate
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The Family Nurse Practitioner certificate is a four-semester, part-time opportunity for working registered nurses. Campus experiences compliment online course content for learning and demonstrating health assessment skills. Upon completion of the program, you will be eligible to take an FNP national board certifying examination.
The FNP certificate is not offered every year. Interested applicants should contact the College of Nursing Office of Student Affairs to verify that the certificate will be offered at the time of application.
To qualify for entry into the FNP graduate certificate program, you must have a Master of Science degree in nursing. The program requires a minimum of 38 units of clinical courses study and 810 clinical practica hours.
*Residents of some U.S. Territories may not be eligible. Please see our Eligibility & State Authorization page for more information.
The curriculum for this program includes:
| This clinical pharmacology course provides the student with knowledge about common medications used across the lifespan. The primary focus is drug management of chronic and self-limiting acute diseases. Covers representative drugs of a pharmacologic group, indications for use, drug selection, titration of dosage, key adverse effects, monitoring of therapy, alternate drugs and special concerns in prescribing to the older adult. |
Learn advanced health assessments across the lifespan. This course includes techniques in history taking, physical exams, development of client databases, health risk assessment, implementation and evaluation of health promotion activities.
| The focus of this course is the physical examination and assessment of the pediatric patient from birth through adolescence. The course serves as an introduction to the advanced practice nurse learning to perform a physical examination on pediatric patients and will include an in-depth review of anatomy, physical assessment, and examination techniques, in the context of the child's developmental level, including differentiation of normal and abnormal findings. |
This course examines selected physiologic and pathophysiologic phenomena that occur in health and illness, across the lifespan, in the areas of cellular and molecular physiology, immunology, neurophysiology, endocrine, cardiovascular, blood and muscle physiology, and pulmonary, renal, and digestive physiology.
| This course is designed to enhance the student's understanding of specific pharmacotherapeutic considerations in the pediatric population. |
| This primary care course is designed to prepare the FNP student with skills in children's health promotion, disease prevention, and assessment/management of common health problems in children and families. In other clinical management courses in the FNP option, students will apply theoretical, scientific and evidence-based knowledge obtained in this course in supervised practicums to manage patients across the lifespan. |
| This course covers the basic concepts and knowledge needed to assess and manage acute and chronic stable health problems and preventive/wellness care of individuals across the lifespan, including special populations (pediatrics, pregnancy, and older adults). Emphasis will be placed on evidence-based, clinical decision-making based on the pathophysiology of the disease process; the use of diagnostic procedures as aids to clinical decision-making and management of the clinical course of illness both pharmacologically and non-pharmacologically. |
| The advanced concepts and knowledge needed to assess and manage acute and chronic health problems prevalent in individuals across the lifespan are covered in this course. It builds on the skills and knowledge developed in the first Primary Care Management Course (620A), health assessment, advanced pathophysiology, and pharmacology. |
This course addresses women's health across the lifespan, from adolescence to the older adult with an emphasis on preventive health and the management of commonly occurring health conditions. This course incorporates integrative nursing practices in the provision of care and explores sociopolitical and cultural factors related to the health of women.
This course explores the normal physiological and psychological changes experienced by older adults in a variety of settings; theories of aging are introduced to support this topic. Myths and stereotypes of aging are addressed, as well as atypical presentations of illness. Case finding, assessment, decision-making and management of specific health problems and geriatric syndromes are emphasized.
| This course is an individualized, supervised clinical practicum to expand the student's advanced practice competencies in direct patient care as related to the care of specialty populations relevant to the student's advanced practice nursing specialty. |
