KPU BPN Program

Hi there, a little late to your post.. I am in the BPN program at KPU. It is very different from BSN. It is not med/surg based, it is purely psychiatry. It’s all about the connection between you and the patient, a lot of talking and mental assessment. Rarely will you be doing physical assessments. However, with that being said you learn all about the physical stuff as well as mental because your still a registered nurse just in a psych specialty. I say, think about where you see yourself. If you see yourself working on an ICU floor or emergency floor then BPN is not for you. BPN is working with individuals with addictions, lots substance use patients, suicide, counselling techniques. Every BPN nurse I talk to loves it and would never step foot on a medical floor. In psych nursing you can work in children’s hospital still in the mental health units, you can work in prisons in forensics, and many more opportunities in leadership and educating future students.

Hopefully this info helps!

On 1/26/2020 at 1:40 AM, yogigirl said:

Hi there, a little late to your post.. I am in the BPN program at KPU. It is very different from BSN. It is not med/surg based, it is purely psychiatry. It’s all about the connection between you and the patient, a lot of talking and mental assessment. Rarely will you be doing physical assessments. However, with that being said you learn all about the physical stuff as well as mental because your still a registered nurse just in a psych specialty. I say, think about where you see yourself. If you see yourself working on an ICU floor or emergency floor then BPN is not for you. BPN is working with individuals with addictions, lots substance use patients, suicide, counselling techniques. Every BPN nurse I talk to loves it and would never step foot on a medical floor. In psych nursing you can work in children’s hospital still in the mental health units, you can work in prisons in forensics, and many more opportunities in leadership and educating future students.

Hopefully this info helps!

hey there, thanks so much for the valuable insight. it's so hard to find any information regarding bpn  program at kpu. I was just wondering what your GPA was when you applied into the kpu bpn program!