Primary Health Care

The PHC Nurse Practitioner concentration provides knowledge, values, and competencies directed toward promoting universal access to essential health services with emphasis on vulnerable (high risk) groups. The PHC Nurse Practitioner delivers necessary and indispensable care through community participation, collaboration, and remediation of the causes of health concerns.

The Primary Health Care (PHC) concentration prepares graduates at a beginning level of practice to actively identify and manage health care needs of clients/families and to forge unique health care partnerships. Specialty areas within PHC include the adult and family nurse practitioner. The PHC Nurse Practitioner specialty areas provide a solid foundation of theory and practice in primary health care. Additional educational preparation for advanced nursing practice centers on health assessment, primary prevention, health care
maintenance, diagnostic reasoning, and illness management.

The nurse practitioner concentration requires a minimum of 41 credits and 632 clinical hours. The program of study can be completed in four semesters of full-time study or part-time equivalent. Graduates are eligible to take either the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or the American Academy of Nurse Practitioner (AANP) Certification Examination.