NRSG 665 - FNP Clinical

12 hours
This direct patient care clinical experience provides opportunities to apply advanced competencies, skills, and knowledge in delivering comprehensive health care for diverse populations across the lifespan in the role of the Family Nurse Practitioner while collaborating with a self-selected preceptor in clinical practice. Preceptors must be nationally board-certified with a current and active unencumbered license with a minimum of two years of experience in their field of expertise. Faculty maintain oversight and responsibility for overall evaluation as the student completes a minimum of 120 hours along with each correlating population-focused course (for a cumulative total of 720 minimum hours) while collaborating with individuals, families, communities, and the interprofessional team to develop clinical expertise.

Emphasis is placed on health promotion, health maintenance, disease prevention, and clinical management in the diagnosis and development of holistic clinical management plans consistent with evidence-based clinical guidelines and standards of care. Students will integrate cultural, environmental, ethical, genetic genomic, legal, political, psychosocial, socioeconomic, and spiritual considerations into the management of patient care. In order to take this course, students must have worked at least 2,000 hours as an RN.

Upon program completion, students are academically prepared to sit for the national Family Nurse Practitioner board certification examination(s). Prerequisite(s): NRSG 626 , NRSG 627 , NRSG 628 , NRSG 653 , NRSG 673 , NRSG 674 , NRSG 675 , NRSG 676 , NRSG 677 , NRSG 678 , NRSG 679 , and NRSG 680 . Corequisite(s): NRSG 667 , NRSG 668 , NRSG 669 , NRSG 670 , NRSG 671 , and NRSG 672 . GR