Nurses who have a current Registered Nurse (RN) license and have already completed a master's degree may earn a graduate certificate as a psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse specialist from the University of Toledo. The 25-credit, two-year program is made up of eight courses that combine online study and 500 contact hours of clinical nursing practice.
The University of Toledo
College of Graduate Studies
Mail Stop #1042
Health Science Campus
3000 Arlington Avenue
Toledo, OH 43614
800-586-5336
utoledo.edu/nursing
The University of Washington Psychosocial & Community Health department offers a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner graduate certificate program to licensed nurse practitioners, master of nursing and doctor of nursing degree-holders. This competitive program has a non-matriculated option that allows nursing students waiting for admission to take all non-clinical courses required for the degree. Non-matriculated course credits are valid for six years.
University of Washington
Psychosocial & Community Health
Box 357263
Seattle, WA 98195
206-543-8736
pmhnp.son.washington.edu
Two psychiatric mental health programs are available from the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing at the University of Wyoming; the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner program and the post-master certificate program. Both were established in 2005. Graduates of the two-year programs will be eligible to sit for the national Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) exam administered by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
University of Wyoming
Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing
Department 3065
1000 East Unviersity Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071
[email protected]
307-766-5358 Program Coordinator
307-766-6568 General Information
uwyo.edu
Vanderbilt's School of Nursing program offers a one-semester admission program for non-nursing graduates that leads to a two-year, five-semester psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner master's degree program. Students who hold a bachelor of science degree in nursing can complete the program in three semesters. Nursing students pursuing a master's degree can complete the program in 16 to 30 credit hours. Students can take the classes on campus or via distance-learning, with curriculum materials delivered via CD ROM and online. The program requires between 500 and 620 hours of clinical practice for completion.
Vanderbilt School of Nursing
PMHNP Program
384 Frist Hall
461 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37240
615-322-2814
nursing.vanderbilt.edu