Family/Individual Across the Lifespan with Emergency Specialization Nurse Practitioner
Major: Nurse Practitioner, Family/Individual Across the Lifespan with Emergency Specialization
Degree Awarded: Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
Calendar Type: Quarter
Minimum Required Credits: 63.0 quarter credits; 1,140 clinical hours
Co-op Option: None
Classification of Instructional (CIP) code: 51.3801
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code: 25-1072, 29-1141
About the Program
The Family/Individual Across the Lifespan with Emergency Specialization program focuses on applying advanced-practice nursing knowledge—including physical, psychosocial and environmental assessment skills—to manage common health and illness problems of clients of all ages and their families in primary and emergency care settings. It emphasizes health promotion and disease prevention.
Family nurse practitioners primarily practice in ambulatory care settings, such as primary care clinics, physician offices, HMOs, outpatient clinics, schools, nursing centers, emergency departments, long-term care facilities, industry, the armed services, public health departments, correctional institutions and home health agencies. Emergency nurse practitioners primarily practice across the emergency care continuum. This rigorous program provides the education and skills necessary to function as a competent nurse practitioner and leader in primary care and emergency care populations. In addition to preparing students for the primary care role across the lifespan, this program prepares students with the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures skills specific to the emergency care setting.
Graduates of the program are eligible to sit for the ANCC’s Family Nurse Practitioner Examination and/or the AANP’s Family Nurse Practitioner Examination. In addition, graduates are eligible to sit for the AANP’s Emergency Nurse Practitioner Examination.
The nurse practitioner faculty is committed to quality and excellence in the nurse practitioner (NP) programs. Students meet on campus for mandatory On Campus Intensive (OCI) learning experiences, simulation and evaluation. Students will attend an in-person, on-campus intensive in NURS 536 for one day during week one of the winter quarter. Students will attend an in-person, on-campus intensive in NURS 673 for two days during week one of the winter quarter. Dates are subject to change. Mandatory on-campus visits each quarter are essential to students transitioning into the NP role. During the OCIs, students engage in simulated clinical learning experiences conducted in the College of Nursing and Health Professions' state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary patient simulation lab. These visits provide direct guidance and mentoring from faculty as well as the opportunity to collaborate with peers.
The program is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
Additional Information
For more information about this program, contact:
Graduate Nursing Division
CNHPGraduateDivision@drexel.edu
Additional information is available on Drexel's College of Nursing and Health Professions webpage and the Drexel University Online webpage.
Admission Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in Nursing from a program fully accredited by NLN and/or CCNE is required for all applicants with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0.
- 1-2 years experience in ED, critical care, urgent care, trauma experience as an RN or APRN. ACLS, BLS, PALS required.
- Two professional references required from previous or current supervisors, managers, nursing faculty members or providers who can attest to applicant's clinical knowledge, skill and potential aptitude for graduate study. References will not be accepted from colleagues or family members.
- An unrestricted United States RN license or eligibility for licensure as a registered nurse.
- An unrestricted Pennsylvania RN license or eligibility for licensure in the State of Pennsylvania is required, regardless of the state in which the student resides.
Degree Requirements
| Nurse Practitioner Core Courses | ||
| NURS 500 [WI] | Confronting Issues in Contemporary Health Care Environments | 3.0 |
| NURS 502 | Advanced Ethical Decision Making in Health Care | 3.0 |
| NURS 544 | Quality and Safety in Healthcare | 3.0 |
| RSCH 503 | Research Methods and Biostatistics | 3.0 |
| RSCH 504 | Evaluation and Translation of Health Research | 3.0 |
| Nurse Practitioner Support Courses | ||
| NUPR 520 | Nurse Practitioner Clinical Orientation Seminar | 0.0 |
| NUPR 600 | Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics | 5.0 |
| NURS 548 | Advanced Pathophysiology | 3.0 |
| NURS 550 | Advanced Health Assessment & Diagnostic Reasoning | 4.0 |
| NURS 664 | Professional Issues for Nurse Practitioners | 1.0 |
| Family/Individual Across the Lifespan Nurse Practitioner Concentration Courses | ||
| NURS 534 | FNP I: Primary Care of the Emerging Family | 5.0 |
| NURS 535 | FNP II: Primary and Episodic Care of Infants, Children and Adolescents | 5.0 |
| NURS 536 | FNP III: Primary Care of Adults and Older Adults Across the Adult Age Spectrum I | 5.0 |
| NURS 537 | FNP IV: Primary Care of Adults and Older Adults Across the Adult Age Spectrum II | 5.0 |
| Emergency Nurse Practitioner Concentration Courses | ||
| NURS 673 | Emergency/Trauma Care Across the Lifespan I | 5.0 |
| NURS 674 | Emergency/Trauma Care Across the Lifespan II | 5.0 |
| NURS 675 | Emergency/Trauma Caring for Trauma and Critically Ill Patient | 5.0 |
| Total Credits | 63.0 | |
Writing-Intensive Course Requirement
A [WI], Writing Intensive, next to a graduate course in this catalog indicates that the graduate course is a writing intensive course. The graduate course is a required course in your curriculum.
Sample Plan of Study
| First Year (Part-Time) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| NURS 500 | 3.0 | NURS 548 | 3.0 | NUPR 600 | 5.0 | NURS 502 | 3.0 |
| NURS 544 | 3.0 | RSCH 503 | 3.0 | RSCH 504 | 3.0 | ||
| 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Second Year (Part-Time) | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| NUPR 520 | 0.0 | NURS 536 | 5.0 | NURS 537 | 5.0 | NURS 534 | 5.0 |
| NURS 550 | 4.0 | ||||||
| NURS 664 | 1.0 | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Third Year (Part-Time) | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| NURS 535 | 5.0 | NURS 673 | 5.0 | NURS 674 | 5.0 | NURS 675 | 5.0 |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Total Credits 63 | |||||||
Program Level Outcomes
- Practices within a legal and ethical framework of health care delivery.
- Advances the role of advanced nursing practice in the health care system through scholarship, clinical experience and political involvement.
- Demonstrates critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning skills in clinical decision-making.
- Integrates multiple technologies and relevant theories into the organization and synthesis of health data required to develop plans of care for patients, families and communities.
- Integrates culturally sensitive health promotion activities that contribute to the health and wellness of the community into clinical practice.
- Demonstrates leadership in nursing and health care through involvement in the development of outcome-based standards of care and practice-based health policy issues.
- Evaluates and modifies the quality and effectiveness of clinical practice based on current research findings, standards of care and patient outcomes.
- Contributes to the advancement of nursing, health care and humanity through communication, collaboration.