Post-MSN Family Nurse Practitioner Certificate
Pursue a fulfilling career in primary care.
Elevate your nursing career with our Post-MSN Family Nurse Practitioner Program. This part-time program offers a hybrid learning experience, combining flexible online courses with hands-on campus intensives. Gain the knowledge and expertise needed to pass the National Certification Examination (NCE) and provide next-level care with confidence.
- Time to Completion
- 5 semesters or 20 months
- Format
- Hybrid
- Degree(s)
- Certificate
Next steps
Admission Requirements
- Earned MSN from an accredited CCNE or ACEN School of Nursing with a GPA of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 Scale
- 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
- Completion of an undergraduate or graduate Statistics course 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?
Pursue an exciting, fulfilling career as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Our part-time certificate program prepares registered nurses with MSN degrees for the National Certification Examination (NCE). The curriculum is designed to equip you with the skills to assess and manage patients and provide safe, evidence-based primary care throughout the lifespan.
- 32-credit hour program
- Combines online asynchronous, and synchronous courses with in-person learning intensives
- Dedicated faculty and small classes
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 Post-MSN FNP certificate 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
- NUR 620 Advanced Physiology & Pathophysiology for the APRN
- NUR 628 Advanced Practice Nursing: Adult Primary Care I
- NUR 704 Advanced Pharmacology & Therapeutics
- NUR 706 Advanced Health Assessment
- NUR 824 Advanced Practice Nursing: Pediatric Primary Care
- NUR 826 Advanced Practice Nursing: Clinical I
- NUR 830 Advanced Practice Nursing: Clinical II
- NUR 832 Advanced Practice Nursing: Adult Primary Care II
- NUR 834 Advanced Practice Nursing: Clinical III
- NUR 845 Advanced Practice Nursing: Adult Primary Care III
Total Program Credits: 32
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
香蜜影视’s nursing programs are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (). We have applied for accreditation for this new program. CCNE’s visit is scheduled for February 2025. You can still apply while accreditation is pending.
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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, and we accept the maximum number of transfer credits for previous coursework or relevant work and life experiences.
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.