The PMHNP graduate is prepared to:
- Provide expert outcome-oriented nursing therapeutics for patients with mental health problems to promote improved health and enhanced quality of life.
- Manage, integrate and coordinate patient care services across the mental health care continuum.
- Develop and provide patient and staff educational services to promote positive patient health care outcomes.
- Consult and collaborate with members of the multidisciplinary health care team to support delivery of quality patient care.
- Incorporate best practice evidence to investigate, promote, and evaluate nursing therapies and pharmacotherapy that support evidence for positive patient care outcomes.
- Advocate for patients and families to provide cost-effective, culturally competent, ethical, quality care in a variety of health care settings.
- Model responsibility for continued professional development, integrity, accountability, competence, and credentialing as a family psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.
For more information regarding the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), click here. For more information on the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), click here.
Online Learning
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Program Outcomes
- Integrate nursing science with knowledge from ethics and the biophysical, psychosocial, analytical, educational, and organizational sciences as the basis for the highest level of nursing practice.
- Develop and evaluate care delivery approaches that meet current and future needs of patient populations based upon scientific findings in nursing science, clinical sciences, and organizational, political, and economic sciences.
- Use analytic methods to appraise existing literature and other evidence to determine and implement the best evidence for practice. Serve as a leader in the development and implementation of institutional, local, state, federal, and international health policy.
- Advocate for the patients and the nursing profession within government, business, education, and healthcare communities.
- Collaborate with interprofessional teams to analyze complex practice and organizational issues in leading change to improve patient, population, and system health outcomes.
- Analyze epidemiological, bio-statistical, environmental, and other scientific data related to individual, aggregate, and population health.
- Integrate advanced level of judgment, systems thinking, and accountability in designing, teaching, delivering, and evaluating evidence-based care to improve patient and healthcare outcomes.
The Doctor of Nursing Practice program at the University of Southern Indiana is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (http://www.ccneaccreditation.org).
Out-of-State Licensure Information
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Requirements for licensure and certification vary by profession and by state. USI has reviewed the educational requirements for each state and licensing agency to determine if the academic program here at USI meets the educational requirements to be eligible for licensure/certification in each state or not. Please note that some states may have additional requirements for licensure, such as residency requirements, additional non-academic certifications, etc. that USI cannot determine. We encourage you to check with your state's licensing agency for all requirements needed to obtain licensure.
Licensing Information
