FAMU’s School of Nursing has been notified that each of its five graduates of the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program in 2019 passed their certification exam of the first try. The graduates are now certified to be nurse practitioners (NP).
“We have met and exceeded a crucial nursing program accreditation standard,” said School of Nursing’s Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Uloma Onubogu, Ph.D.
Nurse practitioners can prescribe medicine and operate their own clinics without a doctor’s supervision. Millions of patients choose NPs as their health care providers, with visits totaling more than 1.06 billion annually, according to the AANP website.
This unprecedented, 100 percent pass rate helps establish the FAMU School of Nursing as a top-tier provider of nursing practitioners, school officials said. It also demonstrates that FAMU graduate students are well prepared to deliver services in the primary care setting with expected competency, quality, safety and attitude.
FAMU still has worked to do in ensuring that graduates of its Bachelors of Science in Nursing program pass the exams where the university’s board scores lag behind the state and national level.