Graduate Certificate in Post-MSN Certificate Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Certificate Code - CG67
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Students are required to maintain a 3.0 in all work attempted in the program. | ||
| NSG 774 | Neuro-Psychopharmacology | 3 |
| NSG 775 | PMHNP Role and Foundations | 3 |
| NSG 776 | Psychotherapy Modalities | 3 |
| NSG 777 | PMHNP Diagnosis and Management of Adults | 3 |
| NSG 779 | PMHNP Diagnosis and Management of Child/Adolescent | 3 |
| NSG 782 | PMHNP Clinical Practicum | 6 |
| Total Hours | 21 | |
Suggested Plan of Study
| First Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer | Hours |
| NSG 774 | 3 | NSG 777 | 3 | NSG 779 | 3 |
| NSG 775 | 3 | NSG 776 | 3 | NSG 782 | 2 |
| NSG 782 | 2 | ||||
| 6 | 8 | 5 | |||
| Second Year | |||||
| Fall | Hours | ||||
| NSG 782 | 2 | ||||
| 2 | |||||
| Total credit hours: 21 | |||||
Certificate Learning Outcomes
Post-MSN Certificate Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
- 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 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 an advanced practice psychiatric mental health nurse.