Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (Lifespan)
Specialty Area Information
Graduate studies in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing prepare nurses to assume roles as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with an emphasis on providing care to persons who are at risk for developing or have a psychiatric disorder. Coursework focuses on the development of advanced practice nursing knowledge and skills required to provide holistic care using psychotherapeutic, biological and integrative interventions for the management of acute and chronic psychiatric disorders with a variety of patients in diverse settings. Coursework integrates extant theories and research in the study of advanced health assessment, psychopathology assessment, psychopharmacology, and individual/ family and group therapy within various community and institutional systems.
Clinical emphasis is on secondary and tertiary psychiatric interventions and outcomes within a managed care context. There are approximately 1000 supervised clinical hours included in the curriculum. Students are clinically preceptored by advanced practice nurses who are certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse specialist or nurse practitioner. Clinical experiences are available in a variety of settings including outpatient clinics, community mental health centers, hospitals, schools and home care agencies. Full-time or part-time students may enroll in the area of study. Current psychiatric nursing experience is strongly encouraged. There is also a Post MS Certificate option for advanced practice nurses who are currently certified in another clinical specialty area.
Graduates will be academically prepared to take the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) certification examination for psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner. Upon certification, graduates will be able to obtain prescriptive authority.
The application priority deadline is November 1 of each year. Other DNP applications will be considered on a space available basis until March 1 of each year.
Courses in the curriculum: Sample curriculum for full-time student - Advanced Physiology
- Complementary & Alternative Therapies Elective
- DNP Proseminar
- DNP Seminars 1, 2, & 3
- Economics of Health Care
- Epidemiology
- Evidence Based practice
- Family Health Theory
- Health Care Leadership for a Changing World
- Health Policy Leadership
- Holistic Health Assessment
- Interdisciplinary Healthcare Informatics
- Introduction to Complementary & Alternative Therapies
- Moral & Ethical Positions in Nursing
- Nursing Research
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacotherapeutics
- PMH Diagnostic Assessment
- PMH Group therapy
- PMH Internship
- PMH Nursing I & II
- PMH Population focused seminar
- Program Evaluation
- Psychopharmacotherapeutics
- Science of Nursing Intervention
- Statistics
- Teaching & Learning in Nursing
Additional program information: For more information, please contact the Office of Student & Career Advancement Services.
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