The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Initiative is a collaborative arrangement between the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program and other schools of nursing.
Through this arrangement, the graduate nursing student attending one of the collaborating schools will receive a certificate in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner after completing the 29 credit hours of graduate Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner courses from Shenandoah University as they are completing their graduate degree from their home school of nursing. Upon successful completion of this program, the student will receive a graduate degree from their home nursing school and a Certificate in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner from Shenandoah University. The graduate will then be able to sit for either the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner examination or the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) examination.
Admission to this option requires successful admission to the school of nursing at the home university. At the present time, Shenandoah University has collaborative agreements with the following schools of nursing for Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing:
Program Outcomes
- Synthesize evidence-based practice, clinical guidelines, and clinical judgment to improve the quality of behavioral and psychiatric mental health practice in diverse populations with consideration for social determinants of health.
- Apply ethical, cultural, legal and social factors that influence access, equity, quality and cost effectiveness to advance mental health nursing practice.
- Demonstrate, through competency based evaluation, the delivery, management, health policy process, and leadership of advanced practice nursing and population health in mental health care settings.
- Create interprofessional dialogues and utilize healthcare technologies to optimize clinical decision making and evidence-based practice to support and strengthen patient outcomes in behavioral and mental health.
- Construct a sustainable professional psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner identity and practice that reflects compassionate, holistic, and wellness-focused patient-centered care for diverse populations.
Course Requirements
Post-Graduate Certificate PMHNP Plan of Study (non-NP) Initiative Student:
| PMH 525 | Behavioral Neuroscience & Psychopharmacology |
| PMH 635 | Foundations of Psychotherapy |
| PMH 641 | Management of Psychiatric Mental Health: Adult |
| PMHL 641 | Management of Psychiatric Mental Health: Clinical Practicum I (180 Clinical Hours) |
| N 532 | Advanced Practice Roles, Ethics & Policy |
| PMH 685 | Management of Psychiatric Mental Health: Geriatric |
| PMH 680 | Management of Psychiatric Mental Health: Child & Adolescent |
| PMHL 680 | Management of Psychiatric Mental Health: Clinical Practicum II (180 Clinical Hours) |
| PMH 661 | Management of Complex Mental Health Across the Lifespan |
| PMHL 695 | Management of Psychiatric Mental Health: Clinical Practicum III (240 Clinical Hours) |
| NP 690 | Advanced Nurse Practitioner Role Development |
Total credits: 29
Total clinical hours: 600