Curriculum
Curriculum
NDSU offers a program to prepare students for eligibility for certification as a family nurse practitioner. The full-time eight-semester course of study leads to a Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree (DNP).
The curriculum is comprised of three components:
- Graduate core courses
- Practice core courses, and
- Specialty curriculum content
A minimum of 1,020 hours clinical practice are required.
Core Graduate Courses
- NURS 802 Ethics/Policy
- NURS 804 Nursing Research/Evidenced Based Practice
- NURS 806 Health Care Delivery Systems & Financing
- NURS 808 Informatics and Advanced Nursing Practice
Practice Core Courses
- NURS 810 Health Pro/Dis Prevention
- NURS 812 Advanced Health Assessment
- NURS 814 Adv Pathophysiology I
- NURS 815 Population Health/Epidemiology for Advanced Practice Nursing
- NURS 816 Adv Pathophysiology II
- NURS 828 Introduction to Primary Care
- NURS 831 Adv Pharmacology I
- NURS 832 Adv Pharmacology II
- NURS 880 Interprofessional Education
- SOC 670 Social Data Analysis (preferred) or STAT 725 Applied Statistics
Specialty Curriculum
- NURS 812P Assessment Practicum
- NURS 820 Advanced Practice Roles
- NURS 830 Clinical Applications
- NURS 833 Family Primary Care I: Assess & Mgmt
- NURS 833P Family Primary Care: Residency I
- NURS 834 Family Primary Care II: Assess & Mgmt
- NURS 834P Family Primary Care: Residency II
- NURS 835 Family Primary Care III: Assess & Mgmt
- NURS 835P Practicum IV: FNP Role Integration
- NURS 836P Practicum V: FNP Role Integration
- NURS 850P Family Primary Care: Specialty Practicum
- NURS 899S-1 Clinical Dissertation I
- NURS 899S-2 Clinical Dissertation II
- NURS 899S-3 Clinical Dissertation III