New Family Nurse Practitioner Degree

GSW partners with Columbus State to offer new degree

At their October meeting, the University System of Georgia Board of Regents approved the state’s newest master’s degree in nursing through a partnership between Georgia Southwestern State University and Columbus State University. A Master of Science in Nursing with a major in Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) will be delivered completely online beginning in January 2015.

Georgia Southwestern will collaborate with Columbus State on the use of faculty resources to support the program, and both institutions have developed a memorandum of understanding concerning the operation of the program. However, students who take classes through the Georgia Southwestern School of Nursing will receive a degree from GSW.

The FNP program consists of a total of 44 semester hours, all online. It also requires 765 clinical hours, which will be completed in facilities and with preceptors that have been approved by the FNP Program Coordinators from Georgia Southwestern State University and Columbus State University. The clinical sites will be located as close to the student’s geographic residence or local community as possible.