FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONER
The Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) track prepares nurses with extensive clinical practice and role preparation for advanced practice in caring for patients across the lifespan with a program totaling 47 credits.
The FNP is the most versatile nurse practitioner role allowing graduates to care for patients, families and communities in a wide array of practice sites from community-based clinics to primary care offices and from retail clinics to urgent care centers.
Our graduates are highly respected for their knowledge and expertise and are employed in primary care settings across the country. Graduates also have the option to continue in the Post-master's DNP program.
Core & Clinical Courses
Villanova's seven core courses prepare students with the foundational knowledge required of all graduate students and are offered online.
Clinical courses must be completed in-person and enable students to build on existing skills, broaden the knowledge base related to Family Primary Care and gain the knowledge and skills essential to independent or collaborative practice in primary care settings.
Clinical Placement
Villanova Nursing secures MSN student clinical placement in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Students work with physicians and nurse practitioner preceptors, and are given access to a wide variety of clinical agencies and practice settings.
Learning Objectives
At completion of this track, graduates will be able to:
- Integrate advanced knowledge and experience in delivering safe, effective quality care of patients across the lifespan in primary care.
- Demonstrate competence in managing the health/ illness status of patients in primary care.
- Ensure quality health care for clients in primary care.
- Incorporate an understanding of family systems and dynamics in planning and providing primary health care for a wide range of patient populations.
- Demonstrate leadership and competence in implementing the role of the primary care nurse practitioner.
- Engage in counseling, communication, collaboration and teaching in a manner that reflects caring, advocacy, ethics and professional standards.
- Conceptualize one's individual role as a primary care nurse practitioner and one's personal philosophy of primary care practice.