Post Graduate Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Certificate
Practice Focused Mental Health Care Education
About the Program
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The certificate options were created for students who have a master’s degree in nursing or maybe already certified as an APRN in another practice focus. These options have been designed to address the growing shortage of nurse practitioners who specialize in psychiatric mental health nursing and support the increased importance placed on the profession within the US health care system. The PMHNP certificate options are practice-focused and designed to educate advanced practice nurses to provide direct psychiatric mental health care to individual patients; manage care for individuals, families, groups, and populations across the lifespan.
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Types of Certificates
These non-degree-seeking Post Graduate PMHNP Certificate Options prepare students to provide psychiatric and mental health services to patients across the lifespan. Graduates will be able to utilize their full scope of practice and will be uniquely prepared to provide holistic mental health care (treatment and management) to psychiatric patients. PMHNPs practice advanced psychiatric skills, application of therapeutic modalities, psychiatric assessment, symptom management, clinical management (non – pharmacologic and pharmacologic), and prescribing authority through collaboration with other primary care providers. The program meets the educational standards for Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse practitioner programs. PMHNP graduates are eligible to sit for the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse practitioner Across The Lifespan examination through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
Post-masters certificate is designed for nurses with a master’s or doctoral degree in nursing who are not nurse practitioners but wish to be prepared in the Psychiatric/Mental Health specialty. Students in the Post-Master’s certificate program will complete 37 credits.
The Post-APRN certificate is for nurses currently educated and recognized as nurse practitioners who wish to add recognition in the Psychiatric/Mental