The Family Health Nursing Practitioner Program provides advanced practice nursing education with a focus on the management of health problems, research, leadership and health promotion among diverse populations.
Students will:
- Develop advanced skills in communication, health assessment, health teaching, nursing interventions and evaluation
- Prepare as nurse practitioners
- Upon successful completion of the program become eligible to sit for the national family nurse practitioner certification exams
UMass Lowell's program provides Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) sessions, featuring Standardized Patients (SPs) who are highly trained actors that simulate the concerns of a medical patient. These actors are assigned different profiles of all ages, races, sexual orientation, and gender identity with specific medical histories and problems. Students interact with the SP to develop a diagnosis or next step for that patient.
For more information, please visit the master's programs page and the Graduate Academic Catalog.
