SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
PMHNP BREAKDOWN
ULTIMATE Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Course Overview
SESSION I: 4.5 HRS
MOCK PREBOARDS 15O QUESTIONS
Test-Taking Strategies
How to Manage Test Anxiety
Introduction about the Test Plan
Domain 1:
1. Rapid Review of Advanced pathophysiology
2. Rapid Review of Advanced pharmacology
3. High Impact Topics on Advanced psychopharmacology
4. Pharmacokinetics
5. Pharmacodynamics
6. Extrapyramidal side effects
7. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
8. Neurodevelopment
9.. Neuroanatomy
10. Neurophysiology
11. Psychogenomics
12. Advanced physical assessment skills
13. Neurotransmitters
SESSION II: Advanced Practice Skills 3 Hrs
1. Clinical interviewing (open-ended questions, nonverbal communication)
2. Health promotion and disease prevention (models, strategies)
3. Mental health screening tools selection and interpretation (PHQ-9, GAD 7, Vanderbilt ADHD)
4. Mental status exam
5. Psychiatric emergency management (suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation)
6. Psychoeducation (presentation method, topic selection)
7. Recovery and resilience promotion
8. Risk assessment 9. Substance use screening tool selection and interpretation (COWS, CIWAS)
Session III: 3 hrs
1. DSM-5 Diagnosis Rapid Review: High Impact Review of Psychiatric-Mental Health Conditions Across the Lifespan (DSM-5)
2. Complementary and alternative treatments
3. Diagnostic and laboratory tests selection and interpretation
4. Diagnostic impression
5. Differential diagnosis
6. Evidence-based practice (medication dosing, off-label use, psychotherapy selection)
7. Psychopharmacotherapeutic management (selection, monitoring)
8. Pharmacotherapeutic management (selection, monitoring)
Session IV Psychotherapy and Related Theories – 3 hrs
1. Psychotherapy principles (cognitive, grief and loss)
2. Change theories (Transtheoretical Model, motivational interviewing)
3. Developmental theories (Erik Erikson’s stages of human development.
- Piaget’s Cognitivetheory)
4. Family theories (structural, narrative, solution-focused family therapy)
5. Therapeutic alliance development and management
6. Empathy, boundaries, psychotherapy facilitation, trauma-informed approach
Session V: Ethical and Legal Principles/ Nonclinical High Impact Contents 3 hrs
1. Patient's Bill of Rights (informed consent, treatment options)
2. Scope of confidentiality (release of information, duty to warn)
3. ANA Scope and Standards of Practice: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
4. Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing role, collaboration, leadership
5. Cultural and spiritual competence (special populations, risk factors, barriers)
6.Ethics in clinical decision making (involuntary treatment, least restrictive care)
7. Patient advocacy (educational accommodations, disabilities accommodations, FMLA)
8. Ethical principles such as Justice, Autonomy, Beneficence, veracity, and nonmaleficience.
9. Patient advocacy.
10. Case management .
11. Health care policy.
12. Just culture.
13. Quality improvement
14. Research