Nursing Post-Master’s Certificate: UC Multi-Campus Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Degree Offered: Certificate
Program Leadership:
Kara Birch, DNP, RN, PMHNP, Co-Director
Admissions Inquiries:
Shanna Abeloff, Program Manager
Program Description
The first remote-learning, post-master’s certificate of its kind in California, this 12-month remote-access education program includes regional clinical training across California in order to prepare advanced practice nurses in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) role and eligibility for board certification. Students can stay in their communities to complete their training.
Admission Requirements
Required Qualifications
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) licensure in California. Nursing license must be recognized as valid for practice within the state of California during the complete course of study.
- Official transcripts. Review our detailed guidance on official transcripts.
- Goal statement
- Minimum of 3 letters of recommendation
- Resume or CV
- English proficiency for non-native speakers (minimum TOEFL score of 92, minimum ILTS score of 7)
Required Prerequisite Coursework
- Advanced Physiology/Pathophysiology, including general principles that apply across the lifespan
- Advanced Health Assessment, which includes assessment of all human systems, advanced assessment techniques, concepts and approaches
- Advanced Pharmacology, which includes pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics and pharmacotherapeutics of all broad categories of agents
- Content in Health Promotion/Disease Prevention and Differential Diagnosis/Disease Management
Learning Outcomes
- PMHNP role development – use knowledge, skills, and attitude for evidence-based clinical practice to build excellence in PMHNP practice.
- Communication and collaboration – develop skill in relationship-centered communication to facilitate collaboration with patients, families, and communities.
- Structural awareness – create health care citizens who understand and respond to the downstream effects of social inequity, racism, and parity in mental health care.
- Self-reflective practice – develop awareness of self, other, and situation in the context of professional role identity and role development.