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Our nine-credit nursing certificate prepares registered nurses to work in education roles in colleges and universities and is designed to develop nurses as teachers, leaders, and role models—equipping you with the skills you’ll need to excel in nursing education, no matter where you’d like to go

The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) program in the Lienhard School of Nursing, uses a primary health care and lifespan focus to prepare students for advanced practice in psychiatric mental health nursing. Students are prepared to practice in various settings including communities, private practice, institutional settings, substance abuse settings, and shelters. The program provides health promotion, disease prevention, assessment, and treatment of psychiatric diseases and disorders across the lifespan, with particular attention to health disparities and the care of vulnerable populations. Strategies used will include, but are not limited to, treatment, medication management, case management, individual, family and group therapy. The program is offered as a Master of Science for those looking to enhance their career or as a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study for those already Mastered prepared as advanced practice nurses.