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Family Nurse Practitioner Concentration
 The
FNP Concentration is designed to prepare primary care providers to work in
ambulatory settings such as community health centers, outpatient clinics,
student health and women's health centers and private practices. The focus is on
preparing nurse practitioners for rural and urban under-served areas. It is
accredited by the National
League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC) and the curriculum is
consistent with the Curriculum Guidelines published by the
National Organization of Nurse
Practitioner Faculties (NONPF). The curriculum includes 600 hours of
supervised clinical practice in the community. Each of the clinical courses
requires some clinical practice hours, varying according to the objectives of
the specific course, and 270 hours of this practice is part of the culminating
internship.Students are required to
successfully complete a comprehensive examination and graduates are eligible to
apply for legal certification to the
Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing and for professional certification to
the American Nurses
Credentialing Center (ANCC) and to the
American Academy of
Nurse Practitioners (AANP). Legal certification by the Pennsylvania State
Board of Nursing authorizes the nurse practitioner to use the credentials, CRNP.
Graduates first are certified professionally, then legally by the State Board of
Nursing with the designation as CRNP.
The Family Nurse Practitioner Concentration was
the first of the master's level programming to be offered by Clarion, Edinboro
and Slippery Rock Universities. The result of several years of discussion and
recommendations by a task force of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher
Education, the first classes were taught in the summer of 1995. Until 2001, the
program was jointly sponsored by Clarion and Slippery Rock Universities with
Edinboro University conducting an individual FNP Program. In August of 2001
approval was granted by the Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing to add Edinboro
to the joint program, resulting in the current 3-university consortium.
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