Johns Hopkins PMHNP Fall 2022

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Didn't see any threads started for JHU PMHNP Fall 2022 applicants to congregate, share info and stress out. Anyone out there? LOL 

Hello,

New to Allnurses…came here for the Hopkins Post Master’s PMHNP postings, LOL. I was a late applicant (April) and was interviewed-even though decisions had already been made. I got in. I applied to 3 other schools that I also got in to. Have boiled it down to Hopkins and another based on the 3 semester timeline. What I’m having a hard time with is…class size… I was told there’s 40-something people in the Hopkins class and only 1 section. Does this make anyone a tad nervous? The other school is another “top” school and I’d be 1 of 5ish but have 690 clinical hours and travel to campus once a semester, which means flying. So, I am having difficulty with my decision!

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I am thinking about applying for PM Psych MH NP at Johns Hopkins Fall 2023. How do you all like the program? Any tips?

Thank you, Amy, 202-510-5257

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Hi All

I saw someone post that after completing the 5 semester MSN at Johns Hopkins that you are not eligible to get a post masters certification. I do not understand that. I see school offering post master certificates that require an MSN, MN, or MS. Why can't you get a cert instead of a doctorate after JH?

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This is my understanding, please correct me if I got it wrong:

Typically a certificate in nurse practitioner is a "specialization," but not a degree. For example, if one is a family nurse practitioner (with either a MSN or DNP degree in Family Nurse Practitioner) they could do a certificate (often time called post-masters certificate) to specialize in Psychiatric Nurse Practice, for example. One needs to be a nurse practitioner first, to be eligible for a certificate (maybe very few exceptions to this, but program by program?) The Hopkins MSN Entry degree does not graduate MSN Nurse Practitioners, they graduate MSN RN nurses. For example, all NP schools require Advanced Health Assessment, Advanced Pharmacology, Advanced Pathophysiology. At Hopkins MSN Entry, they take the "non-advanced" version of these courses. So graduates of MSN ENTRY at Hopkins typically need to take the advanced version of these courses even if they do their DNP at Hopkins.

Exceptions appear to exist. For exampIe, I have heard anedoctally, of one student who graduated from Hopkins MSN Entry and went on to pursue a nurse practitioner degree at a particular school that didn't have them retake these 3 aforementioned "Advanced" courses because they considered that the person already took those courses at the graduate level at Hopkins. 

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letsbringhealth said:

This is my understanding, please correct me if I got it wrong:

Typically a certificate in nurse practitioner is a "specialization," but not a degree. For example, if one is a family nurse practitioner (with either a MSN or DNP degree in Family Nurse Practitioner) they could do a certificate (often time called post-masters certificate) to specialize in Psychiatric Nurse Practice, for example. One needs to be a nurse practitioner first, to be eligible for a certificate (maybe very few exceptions to this, but program by program?) The Hopkins MSN Entry degree does not graduate MSN Nurse Practitioners, they graduate MSN RN nurses. For example, all NP schools require Advanced Health Assessment, Advanced Pharmacology, Advanced Pathophysiology. At Hopkins MSN Entry, they take the "non-advanced" version of these courses. So graduates of MSN ENTRY at Hopkins typically need to take the advanced version of these courses even if they do their DNP at Hopkins.

Exceptions appear to exist. For exampIe, I have heard anedoctally, of one student who graduated from Hopkins MSN Entry and went on to pursue a nurse practitioner degree at a particular school that didn't have them retake these 3 aforementioned "Advanced" courses because they considered that the person already took those courses at the graduate level at Hopkins. 

Which school was this? What bout the other courses did they get credit for that? Also, did they get any credit for doing less hours to get the MSN degree/certificate?

Thanks!

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Hi Sam, I can't remember which school it was... I'm sorry... I am a graduate of the Hopkins MSN Entry program and I was able to transfer 4 of my MSN classes (about 16 credits) to the University of Maryland DNP program. I did have to take Advanced Patho, Health Assessment and Pharmacology, though, as they did not accept these credits from Hopkins.

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letsbringhealth said:

Hi Sam, I can't remember which school it was... I'm sorry... I am a graduate of the Hopkins MSN Entry program and I was able to transfer 4 of my MSN classes (about 16 credits) to the University of Maryland DNP program. I did have to take Advanced Patho, Health Assessment and Pharmacology, though, as they did not accept these credits from Hopkins.

Oh OK. Were these all graduate level courses? Also, do you know if it was a big name school?

Thanks for the input!

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To be precise, they accepted 2 courses - statistics and research, which are graduate courses at the JHU MSN Entry... The 2 other courses I did not have to take at Maryland (I believe it was something equivalent to both leadership course and health promotion course), because they waived those courses out for students who already had a masters in nursing...

I don't remember the school... It was a conversation with a friend last year, who had also graduated who had told me "individual X is attending Y University for their masters in NP and they did not have to retake pathophys, pharm, etc. because they accepted those credits from Hopkins."

 

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letsbringhealth said:

To be precise, they accepted 2 courses - statistics and research, which are graduate courses at the JHU MSN Entry... The 2 other courses I did not have to take at Maryland (I believe it was something equivalent to both leadership course and health promotion course), because they waived those courses out for students who already had a masters in nursing...

I don't remember the school... It was a conversation with a friend last year, who had also graduated who had told me "individual X is attending Y University for their masters in NP and they did not have to retake pathophys, pharm, etc. because they accepted those credits from Hopkins."

 

Thanks again for the input!

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