Talie32

It is a little confusing for me as well. I know on the site it doesn't actually list is at a rural health focus, but if you look at the Curriculum plan all the classes are listed as Rural PMHNP I, Rural PMHNP II, etc... and when I actually went on to start the process of application just to get a feel for it, you could only select the "Rural PMHNP" program.

I am also interested in this. I have been looking at online PHMNP programs and have heard some ok things about EKU. I would have to figure out the statistics course, but thats not a huge deal. I was a little thrown off though because the program is listed as a "Rural" psych nurse practitioner program. I don't really care that it has the addition of that information in it, but I don't want to feel as though I NEED to do rural setting to make use of my degree.

I have been looking in to this recently. Seems as though there is a shortage of MSN programs in mental health as a lot of the ones that even were present are now being changed to DNP programs. Just realistically I don't want to pursue a DNP at this time as I would like to begin working as an NP with an MSN and perhaps pursue the DNP in the future. I am currently in the St. Louis area and am finishing up my BSN with Saint Louis University, but am not sure where I will go for my MSN. I want to do a mostly Online format without having to visit a campus unless it is local. SLU has an MSN, but it is quite pricey- I think somewhere in the neighborhood of 40k after all is said and done since it is a private school. I will actually soon be relocating to Arizona, but none of the schools around Phoenix have an MSN anymore for PMHNP, they are only DNP. I am considering SLU (costly), EKU (Which seems okay, but I am confused because the program is listed as a "Rural" program and I don't really want to be pigeonholed into that subspecialty of a specialty...) Also University of South Indiana seems promising as well, but I would need to take a statistics class which isn't required for my BSN before starting. Also St. Francis University has an MSN, but I haven't been able to gather much information from the site due to some technical errors on the site, which didn't leave me with a good feeling overall. If anyone else has any additional information on Online MSN programs for psych I am open!

I have been looking in to this recently. Seems as though there is a shortage of MSN programs in mental health as a lot of the ones that even were present are now being changed to DNP programs. Just realistically I don't want to pursue a DNP at this time as I would like to begin working as an NP with an MSN and perhaps pursue the DNP in the future. I am currently in the St. Louis area and am finishing up my BSN with Saint Louis University, but am not sure where I will go for my MSN. I want to do a mostly Online format without having to visit a campus unless it is local. SLU has an MSN, but it is quite pricey- I think somewhere in the neighborhood of 40k after all is said and done since it is a private school. I will actually soon be relocating to Arizona, but none of the schools around Phoenix have an MSN anymore for PMHNP, they are only DNP. I am considering SLU (costly), EKU (Which seems okay, but I am confused because the program is listed as a "Rural" program and I don't really want to be pigeonholed into that subspecialty of of specialty...) Also University of South Indiana seems promising as well, but I would need to take a statistics class which isn't required for my BSN before starting. Also St. Francis University has an MSN, but I haven't been able to gather much information from the site due to some technical errors on the site, which didn't leave me with a good feeling overall. If anyone else has any additional information on Online MSN programs for psych I am open!