Psychiatric & Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP), Certificate

Certificate in Psychiatric & Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) (post-MA)
Location: AU Online
Credits for Degree: 59 semester credits
Standard Mode of Instruction: Distance
Standard time to completion: 36 months

Program Overview

The PMHNP major prepares the student to assume a role as an advanced practice nurse with the population focus of psychiatric and mental health nursing across the lifespan. Students are prepared to sit for the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Certification Examination for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioners or the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) Certification Exam.

Students completing this curriculum are awarded a Certificate of Completion, which is not a graduate degree. As such, Post-Graduate Certificate students should check with a financial aid counselor about the applicability of student loans to this program.

Curriculum Objectives

Upon completion of the Psychiatric & Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Post-Graduate Certificate, the student will:

1. Synthesize theories and research from the physical and behavioral sciences relevant to primary psychiatric and mental health advanced nursing practice.

2. Incorporate a caring framework in applying the nursing process with healthy families and those with acute or chronic psychiatric and mental health problems.

3. Perform comprehensive health assessments utilizing a research-based practice, principles of problem-oriented data collection, concepts of epidemiology, therapeutic communication, history-taking skills, techniques of assessment and pertinent diagnostic data.

4. Interpret data to identify excesses, norms and deficits of individuals in a variety of health care settings.

5. Perform holistic, continuous, comprehensive, and individualized primary psychiatric and mental health care to clients and families that includes anticipatory guidance appropriate for age/developmental status through the health/illness continuum.

6. Demonstrate critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning skills in clinical decision-making with attention to safety, cost, invasiveness, simplicity, acceptability and efficacy.

7. Implement primary psychiatric and mental health care management strategies with acute and chronic needs and problems.

8. Evaluate one’s own performance in the independent, collaborative and multifaceted aspects of the advanced practice nursing role in primary psychiatric and mental health care.

9. Examine the legal, political, ethical, financial and professional aspects of the nurse practitioner role.

 

 

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Health Requirements

Students may not participate in any practice hours unless all health requirements are up-to-date and on file in the Department of Nursing.  These requirements are due before the first day of class and include:

• Student Health Assessment including all immunizations or documentation of immunity on file as determined by the Department of Nursing.

  • two-step TB skin test

  • Polio (4 dates or equivalent)

  • MMR (2 dates)

  • Varicella (2 dates)

  • Annual Influenza

  • Hepatitis B (2 dates)

  • COVID-19

• Current American Heart Association BLS for health care providers certification (plus ACLS for the Nurse Anesthesia major).

• Completed Ohio background check (BCI) and if a Nurse Anesthesia Major or if not lived in Ohio for the past 5 years, completed FBI background check.

• 10-substance panel drug screen

All health requirements are submitted through an automated collection system. Students receive instructions for submitting health requirements upon admission and are responsible for keeping all requirements current.

 

Current Tuition and Fees

University Tuition and Fees