Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited nursing program (CCNE, NLNAC)
• An unencumbered RN license in the state of Georgia or a multistate RN license

Competitive applicants will have direct patient care experience of a minimum of one (1) year of full time employment as a registered nurse in psychiatric and mental health, behavioral health or equivalent similar care setting with a psychiatric mental health population focus. Preference will be given to applicants with psych RN experience.

If you’d like to proceed with applying prior to one year of RN practice, we strongly advise that your application, personal statement, and recommendations speak specifically to the relevant experience that you believe make you a competitive applicant.  

• Application for admission
• $50 application fee
• Official transcripts from each school attended
• Resume
• Personal statement
• 2 to 3 references (preference for at least one to be a nursing supervisor)
• Students with international nursing degrees must provide an evaluation from Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools for previous nursing coursework.
• Students with international transcripts for non-nursing degrees must provide an evaluation from World Education Services for previous non-nursing coursework.
• TOEFL, IELTS, or Duolingo scores are required if English is a second language. View Emory University's accepted tests policy.

Personal Statement: Describe why you want to be a student in the Emory DNP program along with a brief statement of your project interests for practice ,process, or systems-based health and healthcare improvement, with an emphasis on your psychiatric nursing interest, experience, and career goals (500 words).

Essay:

• Describe your professional strengths and opportunities for growth
• Describe a time you experienced a professional setback, how you dealt with it, and what you learned
• Describe how you currently manage your work-life balance and how do you anticipate this will change when you begin a graduate/doctoral program?

Three References: References are preferred from professional colleagues, supervisors, or faculty who can speak specifically to the applicant’s professionalism and experience.

Personal Statement: Describe your psychiatric nursing interest, experience, and your career goals. Please answer the following essay questions in your personal statement.

• Describe your professional strengths and opportunities for growth
• Describe a time you experienced a professional setback, how you dealt with it, and what you learned
• Describe how you currently manage your work-life balance and how do you anticipate this will change when you begin a graduate/doctoral program?
  
  Three References: References are preferred from professional colleagues, supervisors, or faculty who can speak specifically to the applicant’s professionalism and experience.

Preferred method: Choose Emory University - School of Nursing in the electronic transcript systems or have your school email your official transcripts to nursingquestions@emory.edu.

If your school does not participate in the electronic transcript system or cannot email your transcripts, please have them mail a hard copy to:

Office of Enrollment and Student Affairs
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Emory University
1520 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30322

All courses and degrees in the application checklist must be verified by the Office of Enrollment and Student Affairs before they are marked as received.