Family Nurse Practitioner
The Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program provides nurses with advanced knowledge and skills necessary to manage the health problems of individuals and families throughout the life span in a variety of primary-care settings. Students are prepared to assume leadership in providing quality health promotion, disease prevention, maintenance and restoration services to families and individuals of all ages and developmental levels in public and private clinics, community health centers, retail health care, schools and student health centers, and prisons, including those providing care to culturally diverse and medically under-served populations in the San Diego area.
Graduates are eligible for certification as Nurse Practitioners in the state of California and national certification by ANCC or AANP as Family Nurse Practitioners (FNPs).
Total Units: 78
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Family Nurse Practitioner in Emergency Care
The Family Nurse Practitioner in Emergency Care program prepares graduates for successful practice in the rapidly evolving field of emergency care. Students in the program provide health care to patients across the lifespan. The underpinning of this program is the family nurse practitioner (FNP) preparation. The course work in emergency care builds upon this foundation to prepare graduates to manage patients who present with life-threatening conditions. Career opportunities include emergency departments (EDs), critical access hospitals, fast-track EDs, freestanding urgent care clinics, convenient care clinics and correctional facilities.
Graduates are eligible for certification in the state of California as Nurse Practitioners; for national certification by ANCC or by AANP as Family Nurse Practitioners (FNPs); and for certification as Emergency Nurse Practitioners (ENPs) through AANPCB.
Total Units: 83
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Dual Adult-Gerontology/Family Nurse Practitioner
The Dual Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner/Family Nurse Practitioner (AGNP/FNP) specialty prepares nurse practitioners to provide primary care and case management services for adolescents, adults and older adults, including frail older adults, and their families, as well as individuals and families throughout the lifespan from birth through end of life. Students are prepared to assume leadership in providing quality health promotion, disease prevention, maintenance, restoration and rehabilitation services with a variety of acute and chronic problems to both culturally diverse and medically under-served adolescents, adults, older adults, and their families as well as individuals and families across the lifespan.
Graduates are eligible for dual certification as Nurse Practitioners in the state of California and national certification by ANCC or AANP as Primary Care Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioners (AGNPs) and Family Nurse Practitioners (FNPs).
Total Units: 81
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Dual Pediatric/Family Nurse Practitioner
The Dual Pediatric Nurse Practitioner/Family Nurse Practitioner (PNP/FNP) program prepares nurses with the advanced knowledge and skills necessary to provide primary pediatric care for infants, children, and adolescents, and their families, especially those from vulnerable populations, as well as individuals and their families across the lifespan from birth through end of life. Students are prepared to assume leadership roles in health supervision of all ages of children and their families to promote their growth, development and well-being as well as provide quality health promotion, disease prevention, maintenance, restoration and rehabilitation services with a variety of acute and chronic problems to both culturally and medically under-served individuals and families across the lifespan.
Graduates are eligible for dual certification as Nurse Practitioners in the state of California and national certification by the PNCB or ANCC as Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (PNPs) and by ANCC or AANP as Family Nurse Practitioners (FNPs)
Total Units: 81
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Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program provides a foundation in the theoretical underpinnings of advanced nursing practice with pediatrics, adolescents, adults, and older adults and their families with psychiatric-mental health conditions. Clinical practicum experiences relevant to individual, family and group psychotherapy are incorporated throughout the program, using a variety of psychiatric/mental health clinical settings with psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners and psychiatrist preceptors.
Graduates are eligible for certification as Nurse Practitioners in the state of California and national certification by ANCC as Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNPs).
Total Units: 83
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Health Systems Leadership
The Health Systems Leadership program prepares leaders at the highest level of clinical practice in nursing. Students gain skills and knowledge to manage complex health delivery systems, multidisciplinary teams and systems, and technology and human systems integration. Graduates from this program are prepared to assume roles as leaders in a variety of settings including public and private health care delivery and health maintenance organizations.
Graduates are eligible to sit for board certification through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL).
Total Units: 70
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Nursing Informatics and Data Science
The Nursing Informatics and Data Science program prepares nurse informaticists at the highest level of clinical practice in nursing. Students gain skills and knowledge across the informatics domain including technical, critical thinking, systems design, project management, leadership, human factors, and complex systems. Graduates are prepared in advanced areas of specialization such as systems design, data science, telehealth, and consumer informatics and are equipped to assume leadership roles.
Graduates are eligible to sit for nursing informatics board certification through the American Nurses Credential Center (ANCC).
Total Units: 73
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