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Adult Nurse Practitioner in Primary and Palliative Care (ANP) 
Sample Plan of Study

Post-BSN (part-time study options are available)
Applies to all students entering Fall semester

Semester I (Fall)
NURSM600Applied Physiology3 sh

(2,1,0)

NURSM624Advanced Health Assessment¹4 sh

(3,0,1)

NURSM650Foundations and Issues in Palliative Care3 sh

(3,0,0)

Semester II (Spring)
NURSM639Advanced Practice in Health Promotion and Risk Reduction¹

4 sh

(0,1,3)

NURSM 751Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing

3 sh

(3,0,0)

NURSM 781Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nurses²

3 sh

(3,0,0)

NURSM804Statistics for Health Care Research

3 sh

(3,0,0)

Semester III (Summer)
NURSM608Advanced Practice in Episodic and Chronic Conditions: Adult¹

4 sh

(0,1,3)

NURSM768Research and Evidence-Based Nursing

3 sh

(3,0,0)

NURSM 803Spirituality and Palliative Care

2 sh

(0,2,0)

Semester IV (Fall)
NURSM647Palliative Care I: Management of Physical and Environmental Domains

1 sh

(0,1,0)

NURSM648Advanced Practice in Palliative Care I: Management of Physical and Environmental Domains¹

3 sh

(0,0,3)

NURSM651Palliative Care II: Management of Psychosocial Domains

1 sh

(0,1,0)

NURSM652Advanced Practice in Palliative Care II: Management of Pyschosocial Domains¹

3 sh

(0,0,3)

NURSM769Health Care Finance

2 sh

(2,0,0)

Semester V (Spring)
NURSM764Advanced Practice Nursing: Role Residency¹

6 sh

(0,1,5)

NURSM649Interdisciplinary Seminars in Palliative Care

1 sh

(0,1,0)

NURSM 777Advanced Practice Role and Scope

1 sh

(1,0,0)

NURSM802Health Policy, Research, and Issues for Advanced Practice Nurses

2 sh

(2,0,0)

NURSM805Controlled Sustance Prescribing for the APRN

1 sh

(1,0,0)

Thesis or Scholarly Project(0-6 sh)
Minimum MSN course work51 sh



¹Clinical component
²May be challenged with prescriptive authority

Semester hour breakdown: 1:1 (Didactic), 2:1 (Seminar), 3:1 (Clinical/lab)

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