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I am interested in working with older adults, but should I be prepared as a Family Nurse Practitioner so that I can be more flexible depending on what type of setting I get hired for practice?

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I am interested in working with older adults, but should I be prepared as a Family Nurse Practitioner so that I can be more flexible depending on what type of setting I get hired for practice?

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A. Being a Family Nurse Practitioner will make you most marketable and enable you to work in any age setting. However, there is another opportunity for FNPs which would allow you to sit for the Geriatric Nurse Practitioner certification exam so you would be dual certified as both an FNP and a GNP. To obtain more information on the clinical and continuing education requirements for eligibility to be dual-certified, go to the American Nurses Credentialing Center.