MLP Long - WUO - BSN to DNP FNP

Lead the Way as a Family Nurse Practitioner

Lead the Way as a Family Nurse Practitioner

Through Walsh University’s online BSN to DNP - Family Nurse Practitioner track you’ll gain advanced nursing knowledge, strategic mindset, and leadership skills to make a positive impact in health care with a doctor of nursing practice degree. Equip yourself with the highest level of knowledge and competency in your nursing career to lead patient care across the lifespan.

The CCNE-accredited BSN to DNP-FNP program offers real-world clinical experiences coupled with flexible learning. Hone your skills in leadership and advocacy, organizational expertise, and quality improvement in the healthcare field. While earning your DNP, you’ll conveniently earn your MSN credential along the way.

Develop advanced clinical skills and expand care in your community. Enjoy more autonomy and better work-life balance as a family nurse practitioner.

Walsh University is proud to offer affordable programs with high academic standards. Take advantage of reasonable tuition rates of $745 per credit hour.

Connect with an engaged faculty of experienced nurses who understand today’s dynamic health care environment.

  • No GRE or GMAT required
  • BSN degree from an accredited school of nursing
  • Current, unencumbered Registered Nurse (RN) license
  • Completion of an undergraduate or graduate-level statistics course
  • Official transcripts from all academic institutions attended
  • No application fee

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    Exceptional Support
    Find support every step of the way. Receive proactive, one-on-one coaching until you graduate to help you succeed.
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    Flexible
    Take just one or two courses while continuing to work full time. Enjoy easy access and log in at any time, anywhere.
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    Clinical Placement Services
    We offer full placement support to assist you in finding suitable clinical sites and preceptors for your clinical courses.

 

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Online DNP-FNP Curriculum

Online DNP-FNP Curriculum

Below is a sample list of courses you will take while enrolled in the online DNP Family Nurse Practitioner program. For the full list, please download a brochure.


This course builds on the student’s’ knowledge and skills of basic health assessment and provides a foundation for the advanced nurse to evaluate the health of individuals across the lifespan. Theory and research-based methodologies and skills will be incorporated to assist students in the comprehensive assessment of individuals, including advanced communication skills such as clinical interviewing and focused history taking, psychosocial and physical assessment, critical diagnostic reasoning and clinical decision making. Interpretation of data for the purpose of differentiating normal from abnormal findings as well as for recognition of potential and/ or actual health problems will also be addressed. The course requires 30 laboratory hours.



Clinical pharmacology builds upon NURS 612 Advanced Pharmacology. Specific requirements, responsibilities, interprofessionalism, and concerns as an APN prescriber, including safe prescription writing and medication management of patients throughout the lifespan, including persons with multiple chronic conditions (MCC), will be comprehensively reviewed. Controlled substances and the functions of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), as well as state monitoring as aspects of prescribing, will be reviewed.



This course serves as the capstone experience for the FNP program and synthesizes all material from previous FNP courses. In addition, this course will explore legal and governing issues that impact advance practice. Didactic and clinical experiences promote transition into practice.



This course focuses on analysis and synthesis of organizational theories within the health care environment and the impact of ethics, values, politics, and market forces on the structure and function of nursing and health care organizations. The evaluation of system level coordination and policy issues and the analysis of contributions of nurse executives to improving the health care systems are explored. The application of economic and financial theories in understanding the strategic impact of market dynamics, utilities, incentive structures, and driving and restraining forces in health care change is highlighted. The emphasis is on critically analyzing the actual and potential impact of these dynamics on the structure and function of the health care system.



This course is designed to advance the student’s ability to use leadership and management theory in nursing practice within current and emerging organizational systems. The student will build on previous course work to further develop the DNP leadership role in these focus areas: leadership development, management of care, collaboration with other health professionals, group and team dynamics, finance, physician relations/alignment, planning and human resource management .