Certified FNPs provide a range of health care services to individuals and families in a variety of clinical settings. Such services include health maintenance, disease prevention, assessment, and healthcare management. The FNP program offers an excellent educational foundation in advanced practice nursing and substantial clinical and leadership experience. Graduates of the program are prepared to make independent and collaborative decisions, provide evidence-based sound clinical judgments, and advance their profession through implementation of research findings in practice aimed at improving patient outcomes.
The University of Miami is located at the crossroads of the Caribbean and the Americas in tropical Miami-Dade County, Florida. This location provides a unique multicultural environment in which to study and practice. The program benefits from its relationship with the University of Miami’s UHealth System and Jackson Health System, both recognized as major international academic health systems, and many other clinical partnerships across South Florida. Clinical instruction is taught by highly skilled faculty in a variety of settings.
Graduates of this program are eligible to take a national certification examination in the family nurse practitioner specialty area offered by either the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) or the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
- Students complete a total of 71 credits in either two years or four years of study. The tuition is listed on our “Cost of Study” site. Opportunities for financial assistance are available. Plans of study are “lock-step” and students begin and end their programs with a cohort of students.
- Courses are taught by the University of Miami’s prestigious faculty who are unique because they are also engaged in clinical practice. Their level of clinical expertise translates into education that is scientific, evidence-based, and patient-centered.
- FNP DNP students complete a minimum of 1,000 hours in clinical and practice immersion experiences during their education, with clinical rotations occurring at various clinical site from academic teaching centers to community practice sites that serve South Florida’s multicultural population.
- Clinical rotations are completed in a number of general and specialized areas, allowing students to gain exposure and experience in numerous practice settings and with a wide variety of patients. FNP faculty assign different clinical practice sites and preceptors for each clinical course, so that students are exposed to different population-focused competencies over the course of their FNP education.
- Both the full-time and part-time options start each Fall. However, new graduate students participate in an online Advanced Practice Preparation (APP) prior to starting classes to prepare them for graduate-level studies.
The goals of the program are to prepare nursing leaders able to:
- Integrate knowledge, theories, and concepts from the biophysical, psychosocial, analytical, and organization sciences to develop ethical health care systems and new frontiers for nursing practice which assist with the resolution of health care disparities.
- Evaluate research methods and findings to create an evidence base for nursing practice and health care delivery systems that are best practices and alleviate health care disparities.
- Synthesize knowledge gained from traditional and innovative learning methods to lead quality, cost effective health care collaborations addressing health care disparities.
- Demonstrate expert clinical judgement and knowledge of health care systems to design, deliver, and evaluate evidence-based care interventions to reduce health care disparities.
- Model expert nursing practice and serve as a leader and mentor in assisting other nursing colleagues to achieve expert nursing practice.
- Employ knowledge of health care policy and economics to develop and evaluate programs to address health care disparities.
Accreditation
The DNP Program at the University of Miami School of Nursing & Health Studies is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, 655 K Street, NW, Suite 750, Washington, DC 20001, 202-887-6791.
