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Adult Nurse Practitioner Plan of Study

To best serve our students, we regularly explore specialty courses and populations for special emphasis in the graduate curriculum.  Plans of study are intended to provide you with a typical curriculum.  The curriculum is subject to change.

Master's Core Courses

Course
Number		 Course Name Prereqs Prereqs
or
Coreqs		 Credit Hours Semester(s) Regularly Offered
 

NUR 604

Statistical Reasoning for Evidence-Based Practice

 UG Statistics Course  

3

 Fall

NUR 605

Evaluating Theory and Research for Evidence-Based Practice

 NUR 604  

4

 Spring

NUR 609

Health Promotion in Advanced Nursing Practice

   NUR 604

3

 Fall
NUR 648 Health Care Policy, Organization, and Financing    

3

 Summer

 

      

13

 

 

Role Core and/or Support Courses
 

Course
Number		 Course Name Prereqs Coreqs Prereqs
or
Coreqs		 Credit Hours Semester(s) Regularly Offered
 
NUR 606 Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Nursing Practice NUR 651    

3

 Spring
NUR 651 Advanced Pathophysiology

3

 Fall
NUR 653 Advanced Health Assessment & Diagnostic Reasoning

2000 hours of direct patient care experience;
NUR 609, 651

 NUR 654 NUR 606

3

 Spring
NUR 654 Practicum: Advanced Health Assessment & Diagnostic Reasoning   NUR 653  

1
(60 hrs)

 Spring

 

        

10

 

 

Advanced Nursing Practice Courses

 

Course
Number		 Course Name Prereqs Coreqs Prereqs
or
Coreqs		 Credit Hours Semester(s) Regularly Offered
 
NUR 660 Adult Primary Care I

NUR 605, 606, 609, 651, 653, 654

 NUR 663 NUR 648

3

 Summer
NUR 663 Practicum I: Adult Nurse Practitioner   NUR 630, 660  

2

(120 hrs)

 Summer
NUR 770 Adult Primary Care II NUR 648, 660, 663 NUR 771   3 Fall
NUR 771 Practicum II; Adult Nurse Practitioner NUR 660, 663 NUR 730, 770   2
(120 hrs)		 Fall
NUR 730 Practicum II:  Evidence-based Nursing Practice NUR 630 NUR 771   1 Fall
NUR 792 Practicum III: Adult Nurse Practitioner NUR 771     6
(360 hrs)		 Spring
          18  

 

Grand Total

      

41

 

Note:  Program of Study includes 660 supervised clinical hours.

Master's Nursing Course Descriptions