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Post Graduate Option
The FNP, as a post-graduate option, enables a nurse who already holds a master’s degree in nursing to be prepared as a family nurse practitioner.
| Advanced Practice Core Courses | Hours | |
| NURSG 500 | Population/Aggregate Health Issues: Assessment & Planning | 3* |
| NURSG 572 | Family Systems Assessment | 2 |
| NURSG 525 | Pharmacology for Advanced Practice Nursing | 1 |
| NURSG 512 | Pharmacology | 2 |
| Total Hours | 5-8 |
| FNP Clinical Courses | Hours | |
| NURSG 502L | Decision-Making in Primary Care Clinical Practicum | 1 plus 45 clinical contact hours |
| NURSG 519 | Family Health Promotion in Primary Care | 3 plus 45 clinical contact hours |
| NURSG 538 | Management of Common Problems in Primary Care | 4 plus 135 clinical contact hours |
| NURSG 591 | FNP Role synthesis | 2 plus 45 clinical contact hours |
| NURSG 592 | FNP Internship in Community Health | 1 plus 45 clinical contact hours* |
| NURSG 593 | FNP Clinical Elective | 2 plus 90 clinical contact hours |
| Total Hours | 16-17 Semester Hrs plus 540 clinical contact hours |
*Students who hold a master’s degree in community health/public health nursing may not have to take this course.
For further information, please contact the Saint Xavier University School of Nursing
at 773-298-3700.
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School of Nursing
E201, Warde Academic Center
Phone: (773) 298-3705
Monday � Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
