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Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Post-Master's Certificate
This post-master’s specialty prepares graduates as advanced practice psychiatric mental health clinical specialist and nurse practitioners. Graduates are eligible to take either the American Nurses Credentialing Center Clinical Specialist (Adult or Child/Adolescent) and/or Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (Adult or Family) certification examinations. Full-time and part-time options are available.
Because mental health issues and psychiatric disorders cross all health care specialties, a variety of combined or post-master’s options are also available. These options include: 1) psychiatric clinical specialists who wish to expand their scope of nursing practice as psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners; 2) adult, family, or pediatric nurse practitioners adding a psychiatric specialty; and 3) other master’s prepared nurses who wish to change their specialty or add psychiatric nursing to their scope of practice. The course work and credit loads for the various combined and post-master’s options are determined on an individual basis based on transcripts and previous degrees and certifications.
