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May 08, 2024
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PMH 695 Advanced Nurse Practitioner Practicum in Psychiatric Mental-Health NursingThe didactic and clinical components of this course are designed to provide the psychiatric mental-health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) with knowledge, skills, values, meanings and experiences beyond the MSN prepared psychiatric mental-health clinical nurse specialist role in relation to differential diagnosis and psychotropic medication management (prescriptive authority). The PMHNP role includes assessment, health promotion, diagnosis, planning, medication management and ongoing evaluation of psychiatric mental-health clients across the lifespan in a variety of settings to include primary care sites. Pharmacotherapy principles and psychosocial factors that influence patients’ compliance with, and response to, drug therapy are addressed. The practicum applies differential diagnosis and medication management principles to acute and chronic psychiatric clients and fulfills the requirement for the American Nurses Credentialing Certification PMHNP exam. Credit(s): 4
Prerequisite(s): N 550 and NPLB 580
Corequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in PMHL 695 is required
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