Nursing – Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Overview

Helping people is your calling and your profession, and you want to extend your hand further and make an even greater impact on individuals, families, and society as a whole.

Upon completion of your degree, you will be prepared for counseling human services jobs in a wide variety of settings, including mental health facilities, correction establishments, halfway houses, child and family service centers, and geriatric facilities.

This Nursing – Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program at Post University is an excellent option for human services, psychology and criminal justice undergraduate degree holders and human services graduate certificate holders to fulfill their potential in their field.

Program Highlights

As an online master’s in Counseling and Human Services student from Post University, you will develop knowledge in the areas of prevention, remediation, psycho-education, diagnosis, assessment, and intervention. You will gain the analytical skills and experience necessary to assess a problem and apply a solution quickly and competently. Throughout your online counseling and human services courses, you will learn how to:

• Analyze the scope of conditions that promote or inhibit human functioning

• Develop an understanding of theories and techniques associated with multicultural competence in the field

• Construct knowledge and skills in direct service delivery and appropriate interventions

• Evaluate values and attitudes and promote understanding of counseling and human services ethics and their application

• Develop awareness of your values, personality, reaction patterns, interpersonal styles and limitations