Learn to deliver innovative, quality mental health care
The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner–Lifespan track uses a wide range of advanced practice learning experiences to prepare you in the assessment, diagnosis, clinical management, and prevention of mental illness across the lifespan.
As a PMHNP, you will make important and unique contributions to health care by developing innovative, quality patient care that is more cost-efficient; collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate healthcare services in order to restore wellness; and managing research protocols and developing research utilization projects.
You will develop the skills necessary for work in case management, professional leadership, and interdisciplinary collaboration across a wide range of healthcare settings including:
- Community mental health centers
- Ambulatory care settings
- Government agencies
- Private group practice
- Hospital settings
The BSN-DNP Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner track is a three-year full-time or four-year part-time program of study that includes 66 credit hours and 1,005 clinical hours, 750 of which are direct patient care hours supervised by clinical faculty and an experienced preceptor. Clinical placements are arranged cooperatively by students and faculty. The remaining clinical hours are completed through the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a population health intervention for your evidence-based DNP project.