Whether you hope to serve in community mental health, private practice, hospital settings, or innovative integrated care models, our program will prepare you to do more than just to meet patient mental healthcare needs but to help transform the field itself. Adding this certification expands your career options in one of the most in-demand fields in healthcare and can increase your earning potential by as much as 40%. You are also future-proofing your career with the flexibility to move into mental health care in an in-person or telehealth setting.
Student Opportunities
- Work while you complete your coursework, with most courses online and monthly in-person weekend intensives
- Complete your program in only 15 months
- Learn to evaluate, order and interpret diagnostic tests, prescribe and treat psychiatric patients
- Master telehealth best practices
- Prepare to work in acute and out-patient settings
- Study narrative medicine techniques, holistic care, trauma-informed care, mindfulness practice, and evidence-based psychiatric treatment.
Dual Enroll in the DNP
Brenau students in the AGACNP or PMHNP can start the DNP program at the same time as the Post-Master’s Certificate. This means you can graduate much faster, and make a difference in your new role.
Required degree: Master of Science in Nursing
To be able to practice professionally after completion of this program, you must pass a professional certification exam.
Upon completion of the Psychiatric Mental Health, Family Nurse Practitioner, and Adult Gerontology Acute Care nurse practitioner program requirements, you will be eligible to take national board certification exams in their respective specialties.