UT Austin - Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Program

The Family Nurse Practitioner concentration combines skills in primary care with community assessment, intervention, and management skills of community health nursing. It emphasizes health promotion, disease prevention, and the management of common acute and chronic illness across the life span. Extensive supervised clinical practice with nurse practitioners and primary care physicians is tailored to the individual student's goals and program objectives.

Graduates are eligible to take the American Nurses Association (ANA) and American Academy for Nurse Practitioner (AANP) certification examinations for the family nurse practitioner. The program meets the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty's curriculum guidelines. The curriculum also includes coursework required by the Texas Board of Nurse Examiners (BNE) to be qualified as an Advanced Practice Nurse (APN). Additional requirements and experiences for APN status are available from the BNE.

Preceptor Qualifications
FNP, MD or DO - All preceptors must be properly licensed to work in the state of Texas. Physicians must be board certified.

Preceptor commitment per student
Each preceptor commits to teach a student for an entire semester. The time the student will spend at your office each week will depend on the level of student.

1st semester students: 1 day each week in a Family or Internal Medicine setting.
2nd semester students: 1.5 days each week in a Pediatric/Woman's Health setting
3rd semester students: 2 days each week in a Family Medicine/Internal Medicine setting.
4th semester students: 2.5 days each week in a Family Medicine/Internal Medicine setting.

Capital AHEC is assisting UT in finding Pediatric Preceptors for these upcoming dates:

2010 Academic Calendar
Spring 2010 Semester: 1/18/2010 - 5/6/2010
Fall 2010 Semester: 8/25/2010 - 12/3/2010
Spring 2011 Semester: 1/18/2011 - 5/6/2011

Course Links
UT's Family Nurse Practitioner Program

Evaluation Form
Students should supply the Preceptors with a copy of the evaluation form.

Course Contacts
First year student coordinator: Mary Lou Adams, PhD, RN, FNP-C
Second year student coordinator: Barb Jones, RN, MSN, FNP-C
Preceptor Information: Brian Sullivan

If you are interested in teaching FNP students for the Univesity of Texas at Austin, please go to the Preceptor Opportunities page and follow the instructions for returning the two required forms.

For more information on the UT FNP Program or becoming a Capital AHEC preceptor, contact Brian Sullivan at bsullivan@capitalahec.org.