Provide Advanced Psychiatric Nursing Care
The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) post-MSN certificate, offered by the School of Nursing, is for professional nurses who are interested in providing advanced psychiatric mental health nursing care in their community. Graduates of this program will meet all requirements to sit for national certification. You will perform advanced clinical differential diagnoses and management of patients to this selection population. The program includes 540 total clinical hours. With our degree, earning your qualifications is now easier than ever and all students pay in-state tuition rates. You can complete your degree in three semesters and each student’s plan of study is individualized based on educational and experiential background.
Program Details
The post-graduate APRN certification program in psychiatric mental health nursing is available for currently licensed and certified advanced practice nurses. It prepares students to sit for either the national certification examination offered by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).
This 21-25 credit hour program consists of five didactic and two variable credit clinical courses. All didactic courses are offered via online modalities, both synchronous and asynchronous. The program will be personalized via gap analyses to determine the number of clinical practicum hours required of each student.
Students must provide evidence of completion of three separate comprehensive graduate-level course courses in advanced pathophysiology, advanced pharmacotherapeutics, and advanced physical assessment prior to admission.
At the completion of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Post-Master’s Certificate, the graduate will be prepared to demonstrate the following outcomes:
- Integrate theories and evidence based on the art and science of nursing knowledge as well as other disciplines to make clinical decisions in the delivery of advanced psychiatric nursing care to patients across the lifespan.
- Formulate and communicate ethical and compassionate evidence-based individualized plans of care that promote a holistic well-being, resiliency, and mental health recovery, and provide treatments for psychiatric disorders that meet the needs of the individual, family, and community while acknowledging the importance of inclusivity, equity, and the SDOH.
- Collaborate with interprofessional teams and other stakeholders to formulate quality ideas or initiatives informed by policy and guidelines that advance safe patient care, improve patient outcomes, promote equity, and reduce risks to individuals, families, providers, and communities.
- Disseminate recommendations from clinical practice guidelines, evidence-based interventions, and knowledge from nursing and other sciences to improve psychiatric mental healthcare delivery and patient outcomes for diverse patients across the lifespan.
- Coordinate resources to provide safe, quality psychiatric and behavioral health care.
- Utilize information and technologies to provide psychiatric mental health care, gather data to drive clinical decision making, and support advanced-practice professionals in managing and improving the delivery of safe, high-quality, transparent healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional regulatory standards.
- Model behaviors that reflect accountability, leadership qualities, a collaborative nature, ethical practice standards, and the values of the advanced practice psychiatric mental health nurse.
- Participate in activities and self-reflection that foster compassionate self-care, resilience, well-being, lifelong learning, and leadership development as advanced practice psychiatric mental health nurse.