Combine your nursing skills with forensic science and expand your role to promote recovery, health and justice. This degree qualifies you for roles such as legal nurse consultants, death investigators, forensic psychiatric nurses, clinical forensic nurses and correctional nurses.

Take the next step forward in your nursing career. Choose from five specialized tracks in population health, including Specialized Population, Forensic Nursing, Clinical Nurse Leader and Nursing Education. Engage in collaborative research in various healthcare settings through diverse research specializations and community partnerships.

Establish yourself as an accomplished educator who can influence new generations of nurses through effective teaching. Develop competencies in educational best practices and position yourself as a skilled leader to prepare you to teach and supervise nursing students and professionals in clinical settings.

Become prepared as an advanced practice registered nurse to deliver care in community mental health agencies, interdisciplinary group practice facilities and a variety of mental health care settings. Gain clinical competencies to develop evidence-based care for the treatment and prevention of acute, episodic and chronic mental health disorders across the lifespan for your patients.

Prepare to take on advanced roles in mental health care with a curriculum in physiology, pharmacology, health assessment and clinical reasoning with specialized courses focusing on PMHNP care for adults, families and children/adolescents. The certificate program consists of 36 credit hours.