The PCNP role focuses on the provision of advanced independent nursing care integrated with delegated medical diagnostic and management activities. The PCNP has a practice located in an ambulatory care setting and focuses on health promotion, risk reduction and evidence-based primary care to individual patients.Program goals:
The mission of the School of Nursing is to improve health and the human condition through leadership in nursing research, education and service. Therefore we will:
- Sustain our tradition of leadership in educational excellence by preparing future scholars and leaders for nursing and health care
- Be a nationally influential center in the development, translation and dissemination of science in biobehavioral clinical research
- Be a national model for collaboration and partnerships between nursing education and nursing service in academic medical centers
- Be a national model for clinical scholarship (development and dissemination) in the use of simulation, technology and innovation for best practices in education and practice
- Provide services that benefit the profession and promote the health and well-being of diverse individuals, families and communities