The FNP is educated to provide high quality, continual and comprehensive wellness and illness care to children and adults by providing preventive health services, patient education, disease management and illness prevention. The FNP practices in the context of community, with broad knowledge, sensitivity and awareness of the specific needs of people from diverse populations and cultural backgrounds. Family nurse practitioners practice primarily in ambulatory care settings. Upon graduation many FNPs practice in settings that provide free or low cost health care to uninsured families.
Graduates of the UCLA School of Nursing Family Nurse Practitioners program assume an advanced practice role in the care of patients within the context of family, culture, and community. Additional coursework in occupational health and environment can be added to prepare graduates in providing care to adults in work settings. With this option, students are educated to provide continual and comprehensive wellness and illness care to adults by providing preventive health services, patient education, disease management and illness prevention with emphasis on occupational and environmental hazard identification and control, screening, surveillance and rehabilitation of workers.
Additional information can be found at About the Role. This is a traditional, four-year program beginning in the freshman year.
A limited number of transfer students are accepted annually. Graduates of the B. During the last clinical course in the 4th year, each student plans and implements a Clincially-based Scholarly Project designed to improve the system of care provided to patients and their families. Students successfully completing the B. The UCLA School of Nursing has an option within the Master of Science in Nursing degree program that is designed to prepare individuals with a baccalaureate degree in another discipline for a career in nursing.
This two-year pre-licensure program includes summer enrollment between the first and second years. They are then prepared to practice nursing at the bedside in a hospital setting. The M. The UCLA SON PhD program aims to develop nurse scientists who can conduct research and generate theory that incorporate the influence of the biologic, psychosocial and physical environments on health and healthcare.
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