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Certificate - Family Nurse Practitioner
The Family Nurse Practitioner certificate prepares students to provide primary health care to patients and families across the lifespan.
Program at a Glance
- Time to complete: 1 year with summer, fall, spring semester enrollment
- Entry options: Part-time – 6 credit hours each term
- Application deadline: Apply by April 1 for a summer start
- Format: Hybrid program
- Courses are online with several on-campus clinical intensive workshops and standardized patient exams in Kansas City.
- Credit hours: 18 total
- Practice experiences: 750 hours
- DNP option: View our Family Nurse Practitioner DNP
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Family Nurse Practitioner Certificate Courses
Those in the FNP certificate take these courses. Contact Student Affairs, soninfo@kumc.edu, if you have questions.
Ready to take the next step?
All applications must be received by April 1, 2027 for summer 2027 admission.
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Clinical Practice Preceptors, Sites and Experiences
Clinical practice sites are generally located in the Kansas City metropolitan area but may extend across the state of Kansas and to other communities where students are located.
In academic year 2024-2025, KU School of Nursing had at the graduate level:
- 98 clinical sites
- 156 preceptors
During your clinical experiences you’ll obtain a beginning level of competence in completing health assessment and comprehensive evaluations, documentation according to federal and state requirements, and apply advanced clinical reasoning to holistic person-centered care.
Graduate Nurse Training Scholarships
Are you interested in the KU Family Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, or Nurse Midwifery specialties? You may be eligible for a graduate nurse training scholarship.
Graduate Nurse Training Scholarships are funded through two Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) opportunities: MIDWIVES KAN and Advancing Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW): Grow and Stay.
Accreditation & Recognition
The KU School of Nursing is nationally accredited and state approved. See accreditation details.
Accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
Approved by the Kansas State Board of Nursing