2023-2024 Academic Catalog

Family Nurse Practitioner and Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, DNP

Overview

Mission

The Mission of the Uniformed Services University FNP & WHNP Program is to educate safe, competent providers prepared to practice independently in response to worldwide mission in the Uniformed Services.

Philosophy

The USUHS FNP & WHNP program prepares advanced practice nurses with a clinical doctorate, preparing them to practice in diverse and increasingly complex health care systems. USUHS graduates are uniquely qualified to provide quality care within Federal health care systems and other diverse and austere settings. Evolving nursing roles, new scientific knowledge, and concerns about the quality and outcomes of patient care necessitated the creation of an enhanced curriculum that includes expanded coursework in healthcare leadership, research translation, and advanced clinical knowledge and skills.

Design

The DNP FNP & WHNP program is a 36-month, full-time program in which didactic, simulation and clinical experiences are tightly and deliberately integrated using a life-span approach that supports the development of critical thinking skills. The program was built to achieve goals of the AACN 2021 Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education, and meets the requirements of the 2022 National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties’ (NONPF) Nurse Practitioner Role Care Competencies, and the draft 2023 NONPF specialty competencies.

Across the three-year program, each graduate will acquire over 1700 direct practice hours, will create and implement a DNP project addressing a healthcare system problem and will create a personal portfolio demonstrating how they have achieved each of the 10 Essentials for Advanced-level Nursing Education.

Degree Requirements

Core Requirements

OPMS 5000Leadership and Teamwork in the Health Professions: A Military Perspective

3

NURS 5110Advanced Health Assessment

3

NURS 5111Advanced Anatomy

3

NURS 5112Advanced Physiology

3

NURS 5120Global Perspectives Seminar in Complex Healthcare Systems I

3

NURS 5121Advanced Pathophysiology

4

NURS 5122Advanced Pharmacology

4

NURS 5130Global Perspectives Seminar in Complex Healthcare Systems II

3

NURS 5131Inquiry into Statistical Methods, Evidence Based Practice and Scholarship

5

NURS 5132Integrative Medicine Methodologies

1

NURS 5133Trauma & Combat Casualty Care

3

NURS 5134Healthcare Informatics

3

NURS 5220Translation of Evidence for Health Care Practice, Policy, and Evaluation

3

NURS 5330Doctor of Nursing Practice Project

6

Total Credit Hours:47

Program Requirements

NURS 5530Family Theory for the APRN

1

NURS 5630Response to (Military) Sexual Assault

1

NURS 6510Advanced Diagnosis and Management in Adult Primary Care

5

NURS 6511Essentials of Gynecologic Health

1

NURS 6512Advanced Diagnosis & Management in Pediatric Primary Care

5

NURS 6610Advanced Diagnosis & Management in Embryology, Gynecology & Obstetrical Care

5

NURS 6611Fundamentals of Advanced Clinical Practice

4

NURS 6612Advanced Assessment and Diagnosis in Management of the Older Adult

1

NURS 6613Drugs in Pregnancy & Lactation

1

NURS 6620Operational & Medical Readiness in a Changing Global Environment

4

NURS 6621Application of Advanced Diagnostic & Therapeutic Approaches

2

NURS 6622Military Contingency Medicine/Operation Bushmaster

6

NURS 6630Application & Integration of Advanced Clinical Concepts

5

NURS 5710Doctor of Nursing Practice Practicum & Seminar in NP Practice I

5

NURS 5720Doctor of Nursing Practice Practicum & Seminar in NP Practice II

5

NURS 5730Doctor of Nursing Practice Practicum & Seminar in NP Practice III

5

Total Credit Hours:56
 

Electives

NURS 5400Operational Readiness: Dive Medicine and Water Rescue

1

NURS 5401Operational Readiness: Military Mountain Medicine (M3C)

1

NURS 5402Operational Readiness: Military Cold Weather/Avalanche

1

NURS 5403Operational Readiness: Directed Study

1

NURS 5405Operational Readiness: Transitions of Care

1

NURS 5407Operational Readiness: Military Humanitarian and Civic Assistance

1

NURS 5408Interdisciplinary Health Policy

2

Total Credit Hours:8

These courses are electives and may be taken in addition to Core and Program requirements. 

Total Credit Hours: 111