This specialty focuses on primary care needs of adults, including a focus on the needs of workers. This care may also include direct services to individuals, groups of employees, families, and corporations. After completing the required practice hours, graduates are eligible to take the Occupational Health Nursing Specialist exam. This specialty prepares graduates to deliver comprehensive primary care to individuals, from infancy through adulthood. Emphasis is on acquisition of the knowledge and skills necessary for a family-centered approach to health promotion and intervention in illness.
Students gain clinical experience in child and adult primary health care settings.
The preceptorship facilitates development of clinical skills that prepare the graduate for the advanced practice role of the Family Nurse Practitioner. Family Nurse Practitioner certification exam. This specialty focuses on primary care of older adults. Emphasis is on acquisition of knowledge and skills necessary for health assessment, illness prevention, and health care management. Students learn to modify the treatment regimen to meet the physical and psychosocial needs of the aged.