Nurse practitioners provide primary care across the life span through direct nursing care, consultation, collaboration, coordination, and referral. These health care services are provided in a variety of settings including neighborhood centers, private practices, and in the home.
The Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program is a specialty track within the MS Nursing program that prepares adult/older adult nurse practitioners to provide quality primary care.
In addition to our on-ground program, we offer an online program. This offers coursework online while you attend your clinical rotations locally. Most of the coursework is asynchronous* with a few synchronous remote meetings in some courses. Students in the online program will come to Northeastern’s campus twice during the program for long weekend clinical intensives to connect with faculty, perfect clinical skills, and prepare for certification exams.
In addition to the traditional Master’s Primary Care Nursing program, we offer a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study (CAGS) for nurses who possess an MS degree in Nursing with a nurse practitioner specialty.
Upon completion of the primary care program, graduates are eligible to sit for all national certification exams in their area of practice.
The Northeastern University Nurse Practitioner and Certified Nurse Anesthetist Programs prepare nurses for professional licensure as Nurse Practitioners within a population focus or as Nurse Anesthetists. The program in which you are enrolled prepares you to practice in any state, based on the information posted on each state’s nursing licensure website as of 2021. Please refer to the complete list of state licensure requirements here: professional licensure disclosures on the University’s Consumer Information page. Please contact your program director with any questions about professional licensure.
*Asynchronous courses are not live class so you can do them in your own time.
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Tuition and Fees
Online courses are offered at a discounted rate. Students admitted to an online program will take all courses online at the discounted rate. Students admitted to the Boston campus program may also have access to the online discounted rate for core courses at the discretion of the program director and when room is available in the online section.
Applicants to the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program must have a current US Nursing license for admission to the program. GRE scores are not required. To apply, applicants must also have the following:
Please note that all letters of recommendations and Official transcripts must be submitted via NursingCAS.
The graduate program* at Northeastern University enables nurse practitioners to articulate a theoretical base for practice and recognize competencies necessary for the provision of health care to individuals, families, and communities. Graduate preparation expands the comprehensiveness of the nurse practitioner role to include participation and use of research development, implementation of health policy, leadership, education, case management, and consultation.
*Curriculum subject to change.
Successful completion of a statistics course that includes probability theory and hypothesis testing.
Professional Core
Clinical Core
Clinical
Total Credits Required for MS: 43
Total Credits Required for CAGS Adult-Gerontology Primary Care NP Specialization: 24
You will apply your classroom learning in a wide array of health care settings such as major teaching hospitals in Boston and Southern N.E., rehabilitation hospitals, specialty clinics, occupational health centers, and university health centers.
You will also learn how to provide care to people in their homes and communities. Your clinical rotations in hospital and community settings will equip you to pursue employment in any specialization after graduation.
Northeastern will partner with students to identify clinical placements within 100 miles of their home. The online students will be responsible for identifying and proposing a clinical preceptor for review and approval by their program director.
We’ll work to ensure clinical affiliations are in place but require 6 months to expedite contracts.
Students will be expected to travel to the Boston campus for two 2-3 day clinical intensives over weekends. Students will be responsible for cost of travel, room and board for the on-campus intensives.
Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner