Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Concentration

Lincoln Memorial University’s MSN degree program, Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner concentration, prepares nurses in an advanced practice role with competencies in mental health promotion and culturally competent clinical management of common conditions across the life span. The concentration can be completed in seventeen (17) months of full-time study and twenty-eight (28) months of part-time study. Both full time and part time options requires 44 credit hours of graduate course work including a minimum of 750 clinical hours. Clinical courses have a 1:5 credit hour to clinical hour ratio. A comprehensive exam is required during the final semester. 

Students may request full or part-time status for the FPMHNP concentration. The part-time option is only offered on a space available basis. All FPMHNP students must meet with their advisor to plan an individualized progression plan. This individualized plan helps to ensure that course prerequisites are met and future course availability. A change in status from part-time to full-time or vice versa must be approved by the FPMHNP concentration director and a new curriculum plan must be designed with the faculty advisor.

If a student has completed another MSN degree, a gap analysis will be performed to assess which courses will be accepted into the program and an individualized program of study will be determined in collaboration with the FPMHNP program director and/or Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs for the Caylor School of Nursing. At the end of the program, the student would be awarded a second MSN degree.

The full-time FPMHNP curriculum plan is provided below. This concentration is offered at the Cedar Bluff campus as well as online. Please note: The online student will be required to attend on-site intensives during the first semester.