The Adult Nurse Practitioner Program prepares nurse practitioners with extensive clinical practice and role preparation for advanced practice in adult primary care. Students work with physicians and nurse practitioner preceptors, and are given access to a wide variety of clinical agencies and practice settings.

Our core courses prepare you with the foundational knowledge required of all graduate students. Our clinical courses enable you to build on your existing clinical skills, broaden your knowledge base related to adult primary care, and gain the knowledge and skills essential to independent or collaborative practice in primary care settings. We place our students with preceptors who serve as mentors and role models throughout the clinical practice experience. Our graduates are highly respected for their knowledge and expertise and are employed in primary care settings across the country.

"The adult nurse practitioner program fully prepared me for my current position by emphasizing assessment skills and decision making capabilities. The professors challenged us to develop our full potential as new nurse practitioners. I would strongly recommend this program to any nurse aspiring to become a practitioner."

Lori Musolf Neri, RN, MSN, CRNP
MSN '00
Adult Nurse Practitioner

At completion of this track, graduates will be able to:

• Integrate advanced knowledge and experience in delivering safe, effective quality care of clients in primary care.
• Demonstrate competence in managing the health/ illness status of clients in primary care.
• Manage and negotiate within the health care delivery system on behalf of clients in primary care.
• Monitor and ensure quality health care for clients in primary care.
• Incorporate an understanding of family systems and dynamics in planning and providing primary health care for clients.
• Demonstrate leadership and competence in implementing the role of the primary care nurse practitioner
• Engage in counseling, communication, collaboration and teaching in a manner that reflects caring, advocacy, ethics and professional standards.
• Conceptualize one's individual role as a primary care nurse