Family Nurse Practitioner Certificate Program

This certificate program prepares nurses who have already earned a master’s degree, or higher, in nursing to sit for either the national certification examination offered by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).

This is a 19-25 credit hour program. All courses are delivered via an online modality. Two courses are clinical, affording the student the opportunity to complete the 600 hours of supervised clinical practice in Prerequisites for registration in the specialty/population courses in either certificate program is evidence of competence in the following three areas: advanced pathophysiology, advanced pharmacotherapeutics, and advanced assessment.