MSN Family Nurse Practitioner Track
Advance your career. Provide next-level care.
Become a transformational healthcare leader in your community. Our full-time MSN Family Nurse Practitioner Track combines online courses with on-campus, hands-on learning intensives. Gain valuable clinical experience in a variety of primary care settings, including family practice, pediatrics, internal medicine, women’s health, geriatrics, and telehealth. Our MSN program equips you with the skills and confidence you need to deliver culturally competent, evidence-based care with professionalism and integrity.
- Time to Completion5 semesters or 20 months
- FormatHybrid
- Degree(s)Masters of Science in Nursing
Next steps
Why study nursing at Mary Baldwin?
Our MSN program prepares advanced practice students to be transformational and innovative nursing leaders. The curriculum provides you with the skills needed to assess and manage patients and provide safe, evidence-based primary care throughout a patient’s lifespan.
Program Benefits:
- Runs full-time as a 47-credit hour program
- Combines online asynchronous, and synchronous courses with in-person learning intensives
- Provides dedicated faculty and small classes
- Includes 600 hours of supervised clinical experience
Next steps
Having compassion for each patient that goes beyond their physical needs is a lifelong goal of mine as a nurse.
Sarah Kauffman ’20RN to BSN graduate
Courses and Curriculum
Core MSN Courses:
- NUR 501: Organization/Systems Leadership
- NUR 502: Theoretical Foundation for Advanced Nursing
- NUR 503: Managing Outcomes — Informatics
- NUR 504: Policy, Ethics, & Legal Perspectives
- NUR 505: Population Health & Collaboration
Sample FNP Courses:
- NUR 620: Advanced Physiology and Pathophysiology for the APRN
- NUR 704: Advanced Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- NUR 706: Advanced Health Assessment and Intensives
- NUR 824: Advanced Practice Nursing: Pediatric Primary Care
- NUR 828: Advanced Practice Nursing: Adult Primary Care
Total Program Credits: 47
Total Clinical Hours: 600
Accreditation
Mary Baldwin University’s MSN programs are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (www.ccneaccreditation.org):
Our Faculty
Our faculty is made up of healthcare experts with industry-leading expertise and profound empathy. Their commitment to nurturing future healthcare leaders is key to the success of our school.
Cost & Financial Aid
See the cost of an MSN at MBU, and some of the ways we work with you to make an excellent education affordable for you and your family.
Expected Program Student Learning Outcomes
The expected student learning outcomes of the graduate nursing programs are to prepare confident, competent, and responsible professional nurses who can:
1. Integrate science, theory, and knowledge from nursing and other disciplines as the basis for the highest level of nursing practice.
2. Critically analyze complex clinical situations, organizational practices, and healthcare systems to improve healthcare delivery and health outcomes for diverse populations.
3. Demonstrate advanced competencies in the application of evidence to improve care delivery, health outcomes, and systems management.
4. Use effective interdisciplinary collaboration skills to influence health policy, health outcomes, and healthcare delivery.
5. Utilize information systems and technology to advance nursing practice and transform health care delivery.
6. Assume leadership roles in the development, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based practice approaches to improve health outcomes for diverse populations.
7. Demonstrate advanced levels of clinical judgment, ethical behavior, and scholarship in nursing practice.