Family Nurse Practitioner Careers
Fill the Need for Expert Healthcare Providers as a Family Nurse Practitioner
The need for highly knowledgeable healthcare professionals is steadily rising. Family nurse practitioners complete comprehensive training to ensure they’re ready to deliver the quality, compassionate care that will fill this need.
- Nurse practitioner careers are expected to be the fastest growing profession between 2021 and 2031.1
- Employment of nurse practitioners and other advanced practice nurses is expected to grow 40 percent by 2031.2
- An increase in demand will result in 118,600 new jobs between 2021 and 2031.2
As an FNP, you’ll meet the growing demand for nurse practitioners while providing expert, compassionate care to individuals and groups across the lifespan. Carlow’s comprehensive MSN FNP program will prepare you to become a well rounded, board-certified nurse practitioner.
Family Nurse PRactitioner
$98,563/year3
Family nurse practitioners serve as primary or specialized healthcare providers. They assess patients, guide them to make healthier choices and manage chronic problems. A family nurse practitioner can work with families, elderly patients and children in chronic or urgent care settings.
Additional NP careers:
- Nurse Case Manager
- Nurse Researcher
- Academic Faculty
- Public Health Nurse Practitioner
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Program Outcomes: Specialized Clinical Skills for Your Family Nurse Practitioner Career
When you complete this program, you’ll be able to:
- Assess, treat, counsel and monitor individual and family healthcare.
- Provide prescriptions, order tests, refer patients and treat non-life-threatening conditions.
- Make medical diagnoses, develop comprehensive treatment plans for patients and manage patients’ chronic health conditions.
- Evaluate and modify approaches to healthcare delivery using principles of continuous quality improvement.
- Supervise a healthcare team.
- Collaborate as a member of an interdisciplinary team.
- Conduct medical research.
- Develop patient education programs.
- Engage with policymakers to further the interests of patients and the nursing profession.
Career Support
Advancing your career as a nurse practitioner is quite an undertaking, but our team of instructors and our diverse student community is ready to help you succeed.
Sources
- https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm
- https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/nurse-anesthetists-nurse-midwives-and-nurse-practitioners.htm
- https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Family_Nurse_Practitioner_(NP)/Salary
- https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/pediatric-nurse-practitioner-salary-SRCH_KO0,28.htm