Family Nurse Practitioner - Indiana University-Purdue University - Indianapolis

Family Nurse Practitioner from Indiana University-Purdue University - Indianapolis is a Campus Master Family Practice Nurse degree that prepares you for a Nursing career. The family nurse practitioner track is a 42-credit-hour program that prepares students for the advanced practice of nursing of people of all ages. Focus is on the comprehensive study of health concerns of well, at-risk, and chronically ill individuals and their families. Students provide direct care in ambulatory settings, neighborhood clinics, extended-care agencies, and private clinical practice. In collaboration with other health care professionals, students learn health assessment, health promotion, clinical decision making, diagnosis, and treatment of illness, client education, and follow-up for family self-care. The track allows either full- or part-time study. Most students finish in three to four years, including the nursing study. The family nurse practitioner track exists within a unique narrative-centered curriculum. We believe the family is the identified unit of care, not merely the context for care provided to individuals of various ages. In this major, students are expected to define and resolve their own learning needs. Classroom activities reflect faculty commitment to building meaningful connections among learners, teachers, families, and clinicians. The curriculum demonstrates that experience is the best teacher, and that clinical stories and other narratives provide students with ways to reconstruct, interpret, and learn from experience. Notable educational strategies in this major include patient-based learning (PBL), paradigm case study analysis, learning issue resolution, and frequent self-evaluation of progress toward individual goals. What is a nurse practitioner (NP)? Nurse practitioners are advanced practice nurses who use theory, research, and clinical expertise to improve the health of people of all ages. As a health care provider, the nurse practitioner may: Assess patients' health status Provide disease prevention and health promotion services Diagnose and treat common acute health problems Manage care for stable, but chronically ill, patients Manage prenatal care during pregnancy Participate in, or manage, clinical research projects Potential employment opportunities for family nurse practitioner graduates include: Collaborative clinical practice Nurse-managed clinics Rural health clinics Occupational health Migrant clinics Specialty practice Clinical research Group clinical practice/HMOs Parish clinics Medically underserved areas View more details on Indiana University-Purdue University - Indianapolis, IN . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Family Practice Nurse courses.