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Sep 07, 2024
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2024-2025 Catalog
Family Nurse Practitioner Post-Masters Certificate
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The College of Health and Human Services Department of Nursing offers a Certificate to prepare nurses with Master of Science in Nursing to meet the requirements for licensure as a Family Nurse Practitioner. The program is intended for nurses who have attained a master’s or doctoral degree in a clinical specialty and who aspire to work as a nurse practitioner in an advanced practice setting.
Admission Requirements
- A master’s or doctoral degree in nursing with current Illinois Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) Licensure and/or a current Specialty Certification in an Adult Clinical Focus qualifying the applicant for state APN licensure; OR
- A master’s in nursing with clinical activity that would qualify the applicant to apply for an Adult Specialty Certification and APN state licensure.
- GPA in Master Program must be 3.0 or higher.
- Transcripts and adequate, appropriate clinical activity hours will be reviewed on an individual basis.
- Transcripts must support advanced pharmacology, pathophysiology and physical assessment courses at the master’s level.
- Licensure as a registered professional nurse in the State of Illinois or the jurisdiction in which clinical practice will occur.
- Must have 2 years of current hospital based clinical nursing experience.
- Submit a career goal statement, resume, and two letters of recommendation.
Review of all applicants by the established FNP Admission Committee and selection based on the above criteria.
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Requirements for the Certificate
The curriculum leading to the Family Nurse Practice Certificate consists of the following graduate courses:
Total - 24 Hours
A student may repeat only one nursing course in which a grade of “C” or less is received without being academically dismissed from the program.
Student must complete all clinical courses with a grade of “B”.
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