Pace's Family Nurse Practitioner program offers a 42-credit Master's of Science degree, and a 78-credit advanced standing DNP. This allows you to begin practice as a FNP, or if you are already a master's prepared FNP, to apply to continue on and complete additional courses for your DNP. Pace also offers a certificate of advanced graduate study for master's prepared nurses who wish to pursue family nurse practitioner studies (36 credits), as well as nurse practitioners who wish to expand their practice though family nurse practitioner education and certification (credits determined by a Gap Analysis).A leader in the fieldPace's FNP was one of the first programs of its kind to focus on family primary health care and prepare you for the FNP role in primary health care practice.