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Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners are highly skilled nurses who effectively provide care and prescribe medication for patients with mental health issues. These nursing professionals are well suited to work across the patient lifespan and healthcare spectrum and care for vulnerable populations in schools, community health clinics, hospitals, private practices and criminal justice or home care settings.

With a growing need for providers in psychiatric mental health settings, the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) program prepares nurses to further their carers as highly skilled providers. Throughout the program, students will learn the theory and gain the skills required to provide effective care for those with mental health needs. In addition to assessing patients, the program teaches the pharmacological, non-pharmacological and therapeutic skills of psychiatric mental health care.

This flexible program allows students to complete almost all of their coursework online outside of three one-week immersions that must be completed on campus. Within two years of completing the MSN, students have the option of seamlessly transitioning into the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program without losing any credits or duplicating any coursework.

Student Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the MSN program are prepared for higher level professional practice and leadership roles in a variety of healthcare settings, as well as advanced study at the doctoral level.

Specifically, graduates will be able to:

Incorporate knowledge from the sciences and humanities for improvement of health care across diverse settings.

Demonstrate leadership abilities encompassing ethical and critical decision-making that embraces a systems perspective.

Apply appropriate measurement and analysis methods related to organizational quality and safety.

Apply evidence-based findings to resolve practice problems, and serve as a catalyst for change.

Use informatics and healthcare technology to integrate and coordinate care.

Participate in policy development and advocacy strategies at the system level to influence health and healthcare.

Collaborate effectively on interprofessional teams to improve health outcomes.

Integrate principles of clinical and population health into care delivery and management.

Deliver direct and/or indirect nursing practice interventions at the master鈥檚 level of practice.