Enhance your knowledge and skills of direct patient care and prepare to work with any age group or demographic. The Family Nurse Practitioner DNP covers women's health, pediatrics, pharmacology, pathophysiology, adult primary care and many other areas. You'll also work hands-on with a wide variety of patients during your clinical practice hours and synthesis projects.

A DNP degree is a Doctor of Nursing Practice, which is a doctoral-level clinical degree in nursing. It prepares nurses with a bachelor's or master's degree for the highest level of nursing practice. It can also prepare nurses for leadership, administrative and faculty positions.

What a DNP does varies depending on the focus of the degree a student earns, their position and the context in which they work. A DNP may work in family practice, lead a healthcare organization or nursing team, work with patient data and nursing technologies, teach future nurses, work to reduce healthcare disparities and more.

To enroll in a clinical nursing course, you must have current, written documentation of the following:

• Unencumbered RN license for the state where your clinical experience will take place
• Annual physical exam with TB screening
• Results of serum titers for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella, and hepatitis B, indicating immune status
• Evidence of Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis (Tdap) vaccination within the past 10 years
• Proof of BCLS certification (ACLS certification is acceptable)
• Verification of current health insurance
• Drug test and background check prior to beginning the first clinical course and then annually

All evidence documents must be valid from the time of registration through the end of the semester.