BSN to MSN Family Nurse Practitioner
Advance your career. Provide next-level care.
Become a transformational healthcare leader in your community. Our full-time BSN to 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鈥檚 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 Completion
- 5 semesters or 20 months
- Format
- Hybrid
- Degree(s)
- Masters of Science in Nursing
Next steps
Admission Requirements
- Current unrestricted RN license in the Commonwealth of Virginia or state participating in the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA)
- Current resume or curriculum vitae
- Official transcripts
- Earned BSN from an accredited CCNE or ACEN School of Nursing with a GPA of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale
- Completion of undergraduate or graduate Statistics and Leadership courses with a grade of 鈥淐鈥 or higher
- Minimum of one year (2,080 hours) of full-time nursing experience
- Current BLS certification
Why Study Nursing at Mary Baldwin?
Our BSN to MSN program prepares advanced practice students to be transformational and innovative nurse leaders. The curriculum provides you with the skills needed to assess and manage patients and provide safe, evidence-based primary care throughout the life span.
- Full-time, 47-credit hour program
- Combines online asynchronous, and synchronous courses with in-person learning intensives
- 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 p.m. EST.
Our Faculty
The faculty of the BSN to MSN program brings a variety of clinical and academic experiences to the program. Many of the faculty teach across all programs within the Mary Baldwin School of Nursing.
Next steps
Courses and Curriculum
Core MSN
- NUR 501 Organization/Systems Leadership
- NUR 502 Theoretical Found For Adv Nursing
- NUR 503 Managing Outcomes 鈥 Informatics
- NUR 504 Policy, Ethics, Legal Perspectives
- NUR 505 Population Health & Collaboration
FNP Speciality
- 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 I
- NUR 832 Advanced Practice Nursing: Adult Primary Care II
- NUR 845 Advanced Practice Nursing: Adult Primary Care III
- NUR 825 Advanced Practice Nursing: Clinical I
- NUR 826 Advanced Practice Nursing: Clinical II
- NUR 830 Advanced Practice: Nursing Clinical III
Total Program Credits: 47
Total Clinical Hours: 600
Our Mission
The mission of the School of Nursing is to provide high quality, rigorous undergraduate and graduate educational programs while preparing healthcare providers to be transformational and innovative nurse leaders who provide culturally competent care and exhibit professionalism, respect of others, integrity, and legal/ethical standards. This will be accomplished by fostering evidence-based practice, promoting critical decision-making, engendering effective interprofessional cooperation, practice, and collaborating with community partners to meet the health needs of our local, regional, national, and global communities.
Accreditation Information
This program is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education ().
Next steps
Cost & Financial Aid
A great education is worth it. Here鈥檚 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 鈥 the list goes on. Our mission is to help you level up your skills and bring your aspirations to life.
This program has a special tuition rate: $650 per credit hour.
The Goals of the School of Nursing Are:
- Integrate nursing science and theory, knowledge from other healthcare disciplines, and nursing research to develop innovative practice approaches that improve health and reduce health disparities for individuals and populations.
- Utilize leadership skills and interprofessional collaborations/partnerships to influence health policy, advocate for social justice, and promote ethical, equitable, safe, and quality health care for individuals and diverse populations.
- Implement ethical, cost effective, and evidence-based changes within complex care systems that produce improved health outcomes and advance the discipline of nursing.
- Engage in the scholarship of nursing, utilize communication and technological systems, and practice ongoing professional development to improve health outcomes and build strong, informed nurse leaders.
- Provide leadership at the highest level to design, direct, and evaluate innovative, evidence-based approaches to care delivery that achieve safe, quality, culturally competent person-centered care.