When you study geriatric neuropsychiatry at Saint Mary’s College, you’ll learn how to become a nurse practitioner who helps aging patients live independent lives, as well as how to decrease misdiagnoses, pharmaceutical mismanagement and reliance on antipsychotic medications.
Finishing Will Take
- One Year
- 15 credit hours
You Can Begin In
Fall 2024 or January 2025
Course structure
- Online
- One visit to campus
- Courses
- NURS 619 Social Determinants of Health
- NURS 745 Policy, Regulatory Compliance in the Care of Older Adults
- NURS 735 Geriatric Neuropsychiatric Pathophysiology & Differential Diagnosis
- NURS 740 Palliative Care for Individuals & Families
- NURS 737 Geriatric Neuropsychiatric Pharmacology