The Interprofessional Integrative Mental Health Focus Area experience allows students to develop collaborative practice skills and expanded knowledge of psychiatric-specific practice approaches and comprehensive medication management for patients. Pharmacy and Nursing students gain these additional skills through the completion of two electives and the completion of at least one psych patient care rotation. During the year-long elective sequence, students will be exposed to a combination of collaborative mental health practice and educational activities and asked to apply these collaborative care skills as a DNP/pharmacist team during 20 hours of standardized patient encounters. After completing the on-campus coursework, the Pharmacy and Nursing students participate in a psychiatric clinical rotation experience the following year.
PHAR 6902/NURS 6604, PHAR 6903/NURS 6504, PHAR 7000/NURS ____ (clinical psych rotation)
Learners participate in two year-long courses together, and then complete a psychiatric clinical rotation together. Coursework is completed on the Twin Cities campus, and the clinical rotation is completed at either the Wilder Foundation or Touchstone Mental Health
- Amy Pittenger, College of Pharmacy
- Barb Peterson, School of Nursing
- Jody Lounsbery, College of Pharmacy