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The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PSH) concentration prepares advanced practice nurses to provide a full range of psychiatric care. Graduates are prepared to assess, diagnose, and manage, to include prescribing psychotropic medications, for people with chronic and acute psychiatric disorders.

Expected Student Learning Outcomes

Graduates will:

engage in evidence-based practice to optimize health outcomes;
engage in leadership activities to promote excellence in rural health care.

Core Concepts:

Transformation:

Transformation includes learning, education, leadership, and nursing as a whole; engaging creativity with theory and evidence-based practice to result in critical reflection and cognitive flexibility.

Rurality/Frontier

Practice in a low population area where resources and/or access to care are limited and be able to innovate accordingly.

Service

Providing advanced practice nursing care and services to individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations includes altruism, leadership, decision-making, cooperation, education, listening, problem-solving, person-centered care, fidelity, advocacy, ethical behavior, and practice.

Comprehensive Global healthcare system perspective

An interconnected and comprehensive global health care system perspective incorporating the following attributes: advocacy, altruism, creativity, ethical conduct, effective communication skills, leadership, problem-solving skills, professionalism, and scholarship.

Clinical Scholarship

Activities that systematically advance nursing science, including its teaching, research, and practice through rigorous inquiry that 1) is significant to the profession, 2) is creative, 3) can be documented, 4) can be replicated or elaborated, and 5) can be peer-reviewed through various methods and includes discovery, teaching, practice, and integration.