Expand your skills and career opportunities as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with Rockhurst University’s Online MSN-PMHNP program. As a PMHNP, you’ll enjoy greater flexibility, personal fulfillment, a higher salary and increased opportunities to pursue a more traditional work schedule, all while providing invaluable service to those with mental health needs.
Pursue a Leadership Role as a Mental Health Advocate
This online PMHNP program is designed for RNs with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) who are interested in becoming practitioners in the mental health field.
Rockhurst University’s CCNE-accredited online MSN-PMHNP program provides:
- Online coursework in addition to clinical hours
- Flexibility with the option to choose to be a full- or part-time student
- Delivery by the highly respected Saint Luke's College of Nursing and Health Sciences
- Full clinical placement services included
- Prepare for ANCC PMHNP-BC Certification upon graduation
Guided by Jesuit values, Rockhurst University prepares advanced practice nurses to care for the needs of the whole person through rigorous academics, rich and varied clinical experiences, and a spirit of inquiry and reflection.
Rockhurst Nursing Learning Outcomes
- Practice safe, effective, holistic, and client/family-centered nursing with diverse individuals, families, and populations.
- Consistently demonstrate professionalism and leadership.
- Collaborate with other disciplines and organizations to develop interventions and strategies that optimize client outcomes.
- Synthesize multiple ways of knowing to inform practice, make clinical judgments and creatively transform knowledge to provide humanistic, quality client-centered care with tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity.
- Use principles of quality improvement, evidence-based practice, health care policy, and cost-effectiveness to enhance client outcomes, and participate in opportunities to engender change.
- Prepare the graduate for the role of the professional nurse.
- Provide an environment of trust, student engagement, and academic support. Provide high-quality nursing education.
- Promote a culture of safety.
- Integrate the students into clinical practice and transition the students into nursing culture.
- Increase the diversity of the student population with an emphasis on cultural awareness.
- Be a leader in NCLEX board pass rate for the region.
- Provide population-focused education to produce graduates that provide efficient, effective health care.
- Create an innovative, cutting-edge environment for nursing students in this fast-changing field of health care.
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