The request to revise Family Nurse Practitioner Across the Lifespan MSN and Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner MSN

Date: March 11, 2016
To: College of Health and Human Services
From: Office of Academic Affairs
Approved On: February 10, 2016
Approved by: Graduate Council
Implementation Date: Summer 2016

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Family Nurse Practitioner Across the Lifespan, M.S.N

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This specialty leads to a MSN with a specialty in Family Nurse Practitioner Across the Lifespan. These Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) will be prepared to function as Nurse Practitioners providing primary care to families across the lifespan. The graduates of this program will be eligible to take the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) examination for Nurse Practitioner Across the Lifespan certification. The Family Nurse Practitioner program is a full-time, campus-based program.

Additional Admission Requirements

  1. Unencumbered license as a Registered Nurse in North Carolina
  2. BSN degree from a nationally accredited program. The RN-to-MSN option is not available to NP applicants.
  3. Total score of 293 on the revised GRE or 950 on the old GRE on verbal and quantitative portions (Note: the Miller Analogy Test is not accepted.)
  4. One year of professional nursing practice
  5. Overall GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale in the last degree and in the last 60 hours of nursing coursework
  6. Completion of an undergraduate statistics course with a grade of C or above
  7. Statement of Purpose in the application packet explaining the applicant’s career goal in relation to primary care and family practice. (Note: Statement of Purpose should not exceed two double-spaced typed pages.)
  8. References should be from professional colleagues and should speak to clinical knowledge and expertise and one’s ability to function a member of the healthcare team. At least one reference from a supervisory person is preferred.

Application is competitive. Students are admitted annually in the Fall semester. See the School of Nursing website at nursing.uncc.edu for application deadline.

Degree Requirements

The program requires completion of 46 credit hours in approved courses.

Core Courses (9 credit hours)

Cognate Courses (6 credit hours)

Advanced Clinical Core (7 credit hours)

FNP Specialty Courses (21 credit hours)

Synthesis Project or Thesis (3 credit hours)

Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, M.S.N.

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These advanced practice registered nurses will be prepared to function as Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioners (AGACNP). Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioners provide evidence-based care to acutely ill adults with urgent and emergent complex health issues and critically ill adults with life threatening, rapidly changing physiological and pathophysiological conditions. Graduates with this concentration will be eligible to take the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or American Academy of Nurse Practitioner (AANP) examination for Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioners. The AGACNP program is a full-time, campus-based program.

Additional Admission Requirements

  1. Unencumbered license as a Registered Nurse in North Carolina
  2. BSN degree from nationally accredited program; the RN-to-MSN option is not available to NP applicants
  3. Total score of 293 on the revised GRE or 950 on the old GRE with verbal and quantitative portions (Note: the Miller Analogy Test is not accepted.)
  4. One year of professional nursing practice in acute or critical care
  5. Overall GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale in the last degree and 60 hours of nursing coursework
  6. Completion of an undergraduate statistics course with a grade of C or above
  7. Statement of Purpose in the application packet explaining the applicant’s career goal in relation to acute/critical care practice. (Note: Statement of Purpose should not exceed two double-spaced typed pages.)
  8. References should be from professional colleagues and should speak to clinical knowledge and expertise and one’s ability to function as a member of the healthcare team. At least one reference from a supervisory person is preferred.

Application is competitive. Students are admitted annually in the Fall semester. See the School of Nursing website at nursing.uncc.edu for application deadline.

Degree Requirements

The program requires completion of 47 credit hours in approved courses including:

Core Courses (9 credit hours)

Cognate Courses (6 credit hours)

Advanced Clinical Core (9 credit hours)

AGACNP Specialty Courses (20 credit hours)

Synthesis Project or Thesis (3 credit hours)

NURS 6962. Thesis. (1-3) Prerequisite: NURS 6160. Production of a piece of nursing research of investigation of a problem relevant to nursing which demonstrates contribution to professional knowledge through systematic investigation and participation in the process of peer reviewed research.