WellStar School of Nursing: Degree Programs

The WellStar Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program builds upon the competencies established during baccalaureate nursing education.

The WellStar Primary Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program at Kennesaw State University enables graduates to:

1. Provide culturally competent age specific primary care to diverse clients based on a strong theoretical and research foundation, thereby improving healthcare delivery and client care outcomes.
2. Use critical thinking, clinical judgment skills and ethics to make safe, independent and interdependent clinical decisions, incorporating principles of health promotion, assessment, diagnosis and management of client potential and actual health care problems in a variety of settings.
3. Utilize therapeutic and professional communication techniques with clients, colleagues and other healthcare professionals in order to facilitate client self care, coordinate services, secure consultations and referrals by using advanced information and communication technologies when appropriate.
4. Assume the role of the advanced practice nurse by demonstrating accountability for the quality of one's own practice, engaging in professional activities, advocating for change, and working effectively in interdisciplinary relationships.
5. Demonstrate leadership in roles as divergent as clinician, educator, advocate, and manager in a variety of areas such as education, practice and community health programs by influencing healthcare delivery systems as shaped by healthcare policy and societal norms and expectations.

Adopted: 11/19/01