MSN Family Nurse Practitioner
Advance your career. Provide next-level care.
Become a transformational healthcare leader in your community. Our full-time MSN Family Nurse Practitioner program 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 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
Virtual Information Sessions
Discover the future of healthcare education from the comfort of your own home! We invite you to join our upcoming Virtual Information Sessions hosted via Zoom the first Tuesday of each month at 7 PM EST.
Next steps
Courses and Curriculum
Sample 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 specialty 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
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
A great education is worth it. Here’s how Mary Baldwin helps you pay for it: generous financial aid packages, a broad range of scholarships, transferring maximum credit hours from previous coursework or relevant work and life experiences — the list goes on.