The MSN Family Nurse Practitioner program requires you to complete 585 directly supervised clinical hours. Please see the MSN Curriculum for a breakdown of the required number of hours per term.

Your FNP coordinator will assist with clinical placement, however, you are encouraged to seek clinical placements and work with the clinical coordinator to ensure the site is suitable. All precepts and clinical sites must be approved by your FNP coordinator prior to beginning the clinical course.

The MSN-FNP is mostly online. The first two trimesters are entirely online. You are required to be on campus for three consecutive days near the end of trimesters three, four, and five for clinical skills practice competency assessment.

If you are residing in another state, it is possible to complete the clinical expectation in another state. However, you must communicate with your FNP coordinator to understand the procedures for out-of-state clinical practice. Clinical rotations must be completed in one of the two states in which we are authorized to have MSN-FNP students (AZ & NV).

This is an accelerated 20-month program.  The MSN-FNP requires 3-4 online courses each trimester with additional clinical hour requirements to fulfill in trimesters three, four, and five. While some students maintain full-time employment throughout, others decide to reduce employment. The choice is individual, depending upon personal preference and non-academic responsibilities

Our online courses are available through Touro Nevada's Learning Management System 24/7. Course assignments will have specific due dates and times included with each course syllabus. Your instructor will grade and make comments on your assignments then send it back to you through the course gradebook. You will also receive video feedback from your instructor. Sometimes your instructor will have a conference call or an on-campus lecture that you can participate in, or view later.

The MSN-FNP and PMCFNP programs will prepare you to meet educational eligibility requirements to sit for national nurse practitioner certification examinations for both the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANP-CB) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).

  •  Applicants who have completed MSN coursework at a regionally accredited institution may be eligible for transfer credits. Credits must have been earned from a program accredited both regionally and by a nursing accreditor, including CCNE, NLNAC, CNEA, or ACEN.
  • Credits may only be transferred for core coursework. To qualify for possible transfer credit the course grade must be a B or higher.
  • If an applicant has not completed an MSN previously, they are eligible to transfer up to six credits (two courses) of core coursework.
  • If an applicant has completed an MSN and is returning to earn an MSN in a different specialty area, they are eligible for up to 12 credits (four courses) of core coursework.
  • The applicant is required to submit:
    • Official transcripts with the course names, credits granted, and official grade.
    • Course description from a university catalog or other official university publication.  Applicants may be required to submit the course syllabi to verify course contents.
  • Transfer credit will be evaluated on an individual basis by the Program Director.
  • If the applicant graduated from a previous MSN program at Touro Nevada, they may be eligible for up to 15 transfer credits of coursework.

Rolling admissions signifies that applications are reviewed as they arrive through the Touro University Nevada admissions application. The committee review selection begins after applications and documents are complete and submitted fully, and will continue until all the accepted seats are filled. This may take place well before the stated deadline(s) due to the volume of applications.

Yes, Pass/Fail grades will be accepted. Passing grades will be given the weight of a 3.0 GPA received for that course(s).