Family Nurse Practitioner Concentration

The family nurse practitioner concentration option prepares the nurse for a leadership role in the health-care system. Clinical and theoretical content focuses on systems thinking, evidence-based practice, and translational research as related to the primary health-care needs of family members from newborn through elders, in consultation and collaboration with family practice physicians and other health-care providers.  The curriculum prepares the student to be certified as a family nurse practitioner by the state of California and the American Nurses Certification Corporation.

Normal time to complete the program

Four years (15 academic quarters)—based on less than full-time enrollment.