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The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) program is designed to prepare graduates to provide holistic, mental health care integrating neuroscientific principles of behavior, experience and psychopharmacology with psychotherapy, consultation and trauma-related care across the lifespan. The PMHNP will be prepared to practice in diverse settings including nurse-managed clinics, inpatient psychiatric facilities, home health, private psychiatric practices, addiction centers, general ambulatory clinics and schools.

This curriculum prepares nurses to sit for national certification as Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner.

The program is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.

Learning Outcomes

• Apply knowledge from core courses in the assessment of clients.
• Integrate core and clinical course content in the diagnosis and treatment of clients.
• Use core and clinical course content within the context of the community and to understand community as client.
• Apply theory to practice problems, to analyze practice guidelines, and to conduct an evidence based practice project
• Examine laws governing advanced practice, to understand scope of practice, and to apply evidence based practice knowledge in treatment planning.

Requirements for earning the M.S.N. degree include the following:

1. completion of an approved program of study;
2. completion of an applied research course, NURS 791  (3), or a thesis, NURS 799  (6);
3. a GPA of 3.00 (on a 4.00 scale) on all courses attempted for graduate credit and all courses numbered 700 and above;
4. a GPA of 3.00 (on a 4.00 scale) an all courses on the approved program of study;
5. and passing a comprehensive assessment during the last semester of the program.