The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner track prepares advanced practice nurses to provide care in a wide variety of settings - institutional, community-based, and private practice. Students learn to care for individuals suffering from a variety of mental disorders, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and thought disorders. Clients range in age from the child to the older adult, and are from diverse ethnic and socio-economic groups. Students learn to assess, diagnose, treat, and evaluate outcomes. Medication management is an important part of the curriculum. Students' clinical practice sites span the state and provide experiences in hospitals, clinics, private practices, correctional facilities, and schools. The DNP Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner track requires 76 credits of coursework and completion of a DNP Project.
August 2025
Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies
1073 North Benson Road,
FAIRFIELD,
Connecticut,
6824, United States
BSN applicants for the DNP at Fairfield must hold a baccalaureate degree in nursing from a regionally accredited college or university (or the international equivalent) with a grade point average of 3.0 or higher overall and in the nursing major. RN applicants who have a non-nursing bachelor's degree will be considered on an individual basis and may be required to complete select prerequisites to be eligible for admission to the DNP program; however, RN applicants who have a non-nursing bachelor's degree are not eligible for the Nurse Anesthesia track.
IELTS: 6.5, TOEFL: 80, a minimum score of 550 (paper-based), 213 (computer-based) on the Test of English as a Foreign Language is the preferred documentation
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
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