Post-Graduate Certificate in Family Nurse Practitioner
Program Overview
The Post-Graduate Certificate in Family Nurse Practitioner prepares graduate-prepared nurses to practice as primary care providers for individuals and families across the lifespan, delivered asynchronously online over five semesters.
- Equips graduate-prepared nurses to practice as a primary care provider for individuals and families across the lifespan
- Family nurse practitioners focus on health promotion, risk reduction, disease prevention, illness management and more
- Delivered asynchronously online over five semesters
- Most clinical hours may be completed in your own community
- Some on-campus time in Bryan-College Station is required at certain points in the certificate plan, to meet the clinical objectives set by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for any post-graduate certificate
- Open to those holding a graduate degree in nursing and an active, unencumbered RN license
- Prepares graduates to sit for the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and/or American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) certification exams to be licensed as a family nurse practitioner