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, school-based clinics, and in the home.
The Family Nurse Practitioner Program is a specialty track focusing on the primary health care of individuals and families. The program is offered in a hybrid format with classes delivered online, coupled with live sessions within the clinical practicum courses. Live sessions are offered in a flexible format to accommodate student needs. Students are required to be on campus one weekend per clinical semester, and to attend the two Intensive workshops.
Upon completion of the program, graduates are eligible to sit for all national certification exams in their area of practice.
The Northeastern University Nurse Practitioner Programs prepare nurses for professional licensure as Nurse Practitioners within a specialty population focus. 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.
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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 Family 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 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.
Applicants to the Family Nurse Practitioner Program have the option of choosing either a full-time or part-time program of study.
The Family Nurse Practitioner Hybrid program will prepare family nurse practitioners who will:
11 Credits
10 Credits / 240 Clinical Hours
8 Credits
10 Credits / 240 Clinical Hours
8 Credits / 240 Clinical Hours
Total Credits Required 47
Total Clinical Hours 720
5 Credits
5 Credits 240 Clinical Hours
5 Credits
6 Credits
8 Credits
240 Clinical Hours
2 Credits
10 Credits / 240 Clinical Hours
6 Credits / 240 Clinical Hours
Total Credits Required 47
Total Clinical Hours 720
Clinical practicum is available in a variety of urban and rural settings. This may include, but is not limited to:
Preceptorship is one to one. Preceptors may be Advanced Nurse Practitioners or Physicians. The student will manage a caseload with increasing complexity and independence as the program progresses.
Reliable transportation is necessary to access clinical practicum locations. This is the responsibility of the student.
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 have two 2-3 day clinical intensives over weekends.
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