PMHNP Across the Lifespan Residency

Catalog description

The nurse practitioner student will be expected to fully immerse in the role of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) with increasing levels of autonomy, under the supervision of qualified preceptors. Students will demonstrate efficacy in practice, management, and treatment of broad types of mental health issues that present in children, adolescents, adults and/or geriatric individuals and families in a variety of settings. The student will demonstrate the ability to utilize psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic (individual, family and group) interventions in specialty or subspeciality clinical settings, particularly those that are of clinical relevance to the student’s area of intended practice. In this course, the student will demonstrate proficiency in the PMHNP role in integrated healthcare settings. Students must complete psychiatric mental health clinical rotation hours treating patients across the lifespan while offering opportunities for board certification exam preparation. Restricted to Nursing majors. May be repeated up to 4 credits.