Emphasis is placed upon diagnostic reasoning and clinical decision making.
Post-Master Degree options are also available. Students pursue a variety of practice roles inclusive of, but not limited to the acute care hospital setting, outpatient centers and clinics, home health, impatient and outpatient psychiatric settings, long term care and elder care facilities, and other settings. Graduates are eligible to sit for the ANCC's nurse practitioner examinations, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioner's family nurse practitioner examination, and the NCC's womens health care nurse practitioner examination.