FNP Program Overview
The Purdue family nurse practitioner program develops leadership and practice skills necessary to shape nursing practice in a dynamic, complex, and globally interdependent healthcare system with a focus on the family.
The graduate program offers an innovative approach to advanced practice education by integrating knowledge from other disciplines such as medicine, pharmacy, human development, speech-language-hearing, social work, and physical and occupational therapy as it applies to addressing the needs of individuals across the lifespan.
Program Features
The MS/FNP program features:
- Transdisciplinary 645-hour preceptorship.
- Access to practice in two nurse-managed clinics.
- Research opportunities throughout Purdue.
- Eligibility to sit for national certifications after graduation.
- Blended curricular design (primarily online with some on-campus meetings) that allows for one-on-one interaction with faculty and the support of fellow students.
Research Opportunities or Research Focus
- Healthcare delivery systems.
- Health promotion and primary care delivery.
- Nursing education.
- Transdisciplinary projects in other departments.
Program Goals and Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this program, the graduate will be able to:
- Evaluate client and family responses to health, illness, and social determinants as a basis for promotion, restoration, and maintenance of mental and physical health, functional abilities and the prevention of illness.
- Integrate theory, research, and informatics in the management of the care of individuals and families in a specialized area of practice.
- Apply advanced practice nursing interventions based on knowledge of the interrelationship among person, environment, health and nursing in the care of diverse populations.
- Demonstrate role competence as an Advanced Practice Nurse in providing compassionate, safe, and ethical care to individuals and families including rural and vulnerable populations.
- Provide leadership in effecting positive change in professional, social, political, and ethical situations to advance nursing, healthcare, and health policy.
- Evaluate quality and cost-effectiveness of nursing and health systems based on outcomes through effective communication and collaboration.