Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
The option is designed for nurses who already hold a master’s degree in nursing and want to learn to care for individuals, across the lifespan, with mental health care needs and to practice in a variety of settings such as clinics, human service centers, urgent care facilities, and physician practices.
Upon successful completion of this certificate option, the student may take the national certification examination.
Curriculum
First Year
| Course |
Semester |
| 512 - Roles & Issues in Advanced Practice Nursing |
Summer |
Second Year
| Course |
Semester |
| 509 - Advanced Health Assessment, Clinical Reasoning, and Diagnosis Across the Lifespan |
Fall |
| 519 - Advanced Pathophysiology Across the Lifespan |
Fall |
| 529 - Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics Across the Lifespan |
Spring |
| 566 - Family Mental Health Psycho-Pharmacology |
Spring |
Third Year
| Course |
Semester |
| 568 - Advanced Assessment & Therapeutic Interventions |
Fall |
| 569 - FPMHNP Practicum I |
Fall |
| 707 - Principles of Epidemiology & Health Promotion in Advanced Nursing Practice* |
Fall |
| 570 - Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing - Diagnosis & Management of Children & Adolescents |
Spring |
| 571 - FPMHNP Practicum II |
Spring |
Fourth Year
| Course |
Semester |
| 572 - Advanced Psychiatric Nursing - Diagnosis & Management of Adults & Specialty Populations |
Fall |
| 573 - FPMHNP Practicum III |
Fall |
| 650 - FPMHNP Practicum IV |
Spring |
| 707 - Principles of Epidemiology & Health Promotion in Advanced Nursing Practice* |
Spring |
*Note: 707 may be taken either of these two times (Fall 3 or Spring 4)
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