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The Family Nurse Practitioner Program is a specialty track focused on providing primary healthcare to individuals and families across the lifespan. The program is offered in a hybrid format, with coursework delivered online and required synchronous sessions integrated throughout the didactic and clinical practicum courses.
Students complete clinical experiences within their local communities whenever possible. The School of Nursing provides guidance and support throughout the clinical placement process, and students are encouraged to actively participate in identifying potential clinical sites and preceptors. Learn more under Experiential Learning.
During the clinical practicum sequence, students are required to attend on-campus intensive weekends during the fall and spring semesters. These sessions provide opportunities for hands-on skills development, simulation activities, faculty-led seminars, competency assessment, and certification examination preparation.
Students are required to be on campus one weekend per clinical semester, and to attend the two Intensive Workshops. This offers coursework online while you attend your clinical rotations locally. Students in the online program will come to Northeastern’s campus twice during the program for clinical intensives to connect with faculty, perfect clinical skills, and prepare for certification exams.
Upon completion of the family nurse practitioner program, graduates are eligible to sit for all national certification exams in their area of practice.
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. If you have questions or concerns regarding professional licensure, please contact program manager Jane Adams.
Degree types:
– MS in Nursing
– Graduate Certificate
Study options:
– Full-time or part-time
Modality:
Online Coursework with In-Person Clinical Experience and two on-campus Practice Intensives.
Application deadlines:
Fall: August 1
Spring: November 17
GRE: Not required
The primary goal of the Family Nurse Practitioner Hybrid Program is to educate family nurse practitioners who are capable of providing evidence-based, culturally and linguistically competent, ethical primary health care to individuals and families in a variety of health care settings.
Graduates will become nurse clinicians, educators, scholars, researchers, and life-long learners.
The Family Nurse Practitioner program will prepare family nurse practitioners who will:
Curriculum subject to change.
Once admitted, students will meet with their academic advisor and/or graduate program director to individualize their plan of study. For the most up-to-date information please refer to the university’s academic catalog.
Clinical practicums are available in a variety of urban and rural healthcare settings. Clinical experiences may include, but are not limited to:
Preceptorships are one-to-one experiences. Preceptors may include advanced practice nurses or physicians. Students will manage a patient caseload with increasing complexity and independence as they progress through the program.
Reliable transportation is necessary to access clinical practicum locations and is the responsibility of the student.
Clinical placements are based on the availability of qualified preceptors and appropriate learning opportunities. While every effort is made to arrange clinical experiences close to a student’s residence, students may be required to travel within a 350-mile radius of their primary residence to complete required clinical experiences.
Students are expected to actively participate in the clinical placement process by identifying potential preceptors and clinical sites, communicating with prospective preceptors, and collaborating with the program director and faculty throughout the process. The School of Nursing provides guidance and support throughout this process; however, successful placement requires timely student engagement and completion of required steps.
The FNP graduate certificate is designed to prepare Advanced Practice Registered Nurses who have completed a master’s degree and certification in another APRN specialty to be eligible to obtain national certification (AACN or AANP) as a Family Nurse Practitioner.
Curriculum subject to change.
For most up-to-date information please refer to the university’s academic catalog.
NRSG 6392 Family Theory
NRSG 6561 Advanced Nurse Practitioner Clinical Intensive
Total Credits: 3
For required courses on each certificate, please refer to the university’s academic catalog.
Applicants to the Family Nurse Practitioner program must have a current US Nursing license for admission to the program. GRE scores are not required. Please note that all letters of recommendations and official transcripts must be submitted via the Northeastern University Application Portal.
Northeastern is currently able to accept applications from applicants living in the following states: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia
To apply, applicants must also have the following:
Minimum GPA of 3.0, with grades of ‘B’ or better, is required in all nursing courses
Evidence of successful completion of a statistics course that includes probability theory and hypothesis testing, taken preferably within five years of entering the program, and definitely within 10 years of entering the program (and/or being actively engaged in QI/research projects).
Applicants who do not meet this requirement have two options:
Two letters of recommendation (academic and professional)
Curriculum vitae
Baccalaureate degree in nursing from an accredited program (a baccalaureate degree in another field will be considered at the discretion of the Program Director)
Current RN licensure
At least 1 year of active full-time nursing experience (two years preferred). Attention will be given to former nursing positions that required a high level of independence. Experience in care of pediatric as well as adult populations is encouraged.
Letter of intent to study (Minimum 500 words)
Official transcript from baccalaureate program and all college coursework
