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Communities across the country are in need of qualified psychiatric/mental health professionals. The psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner program prepares advanced practice nurses for leadership and direct care roles in the planning and delivery of preventive, brief and long-term psychiatric/mental health care.
This program covers mental health across the lifespan, thus the “family” designation. Students gain advanced knowledge and skills basic to the psychiatric nurse practitioner's (PMHNP) ability to: assess, diagnose and plan treatment for psychiatric disorders and co-morbid conditions; provide treatment that includes prescribing and monitoring psychotropic medications; implement psychotherapy and health promotion/illness prevention interventions with individuals and groups; and evaluate treatment outcomes.
This program covers mental health across the lifespan, thus the “family” designation. Students gain advanced knowledge and skills basic to the psychiatric nurse practitioner's (PMHNP) ability to: assess, diagnose and plan treatment for psychiatric disorders and co-morbid conditions; provide treatment that includes prescribing and monitoring psychotropic medications; implement psychotherapy and health promotion/illness prevention interventions with individuals and groups; and evaluate treatment outcomes.
$470 per credit hour
Full or part time
Synchronous online, pending transcript review
25-45
Spring
Master's (advanced practice nursing)
This certificate program is intended for licensed nurse practitioners in another specialty who want to add to or change their specialty area to psych/mental health.
Admissions evaluations and decisions are made on a case-by-case basis. The Nursing Core courses may or may not be waived based on admitted student’s work experience and/or time since completing his/her previous nursing program(s).
Course | Credits | |
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NGC 612 | Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Nursing | 4 |
NGC 625 | Pathophysiology for Advanced Practice Nursing | 3 |
NGC 626 | Pathophysiology for Advanced Practice Nursing II | 3 |
NGC 576 | Advanced Health Assessment-Foundations | 3 |
NGC 574 | Advanced Health Assessment-Child | 2 |
Course | Credits | |
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NPM 553 | Primary Care of Individuals & Families Experiencing Addictions | 3 |
NFN 559 | The Family: Theoretical Foundations and Perspectives | 3 |
NPM 562 | PMHN: Theoretical Foundations and Perspectives | 3 |
NPM 568 | Clinical Pharmacology for APN | 3 |
NPM 569 | Neurological Basis of Mental Health & Addictive Disorders | 3 |
NPM 570 | MH Assessment & Diagnosis Across the Lifespan | 3 |
NPM 563 | PMHN: Practicum Individual & Group Psychotherapy Across the Lifespan | 2 |
NPM 618 | Clinical Practicum I | 4 |
NPM 619 | Clinical Practicum II | 4 |
NPM 652 | PMHNP Clinical Practicum Seminar I | 1 |
NPM 653 | PMHNP Clinical Practicum Seminar II | 1 |
Total Credits: 25-45*
*A maximum of 45 credit hours are required to complete the Family Psych/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Advanced Certificate. However, specific courses may be waived if the individual’s previous training specifically indicates on the academic transcripts that the required course or its equivalent has already been taken within the last 10 years. All students in this program must complete at least 25 credit hours and 600 unique clinical hours in this specialty area, all of which must be taken at the University at Buffalo.
Applications for the Spring 2021 cohort have closed.
To help offset the cost of your continued education, admitted and current students may apply for our available scholarships.