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Prepare to pass the (PMH-BC) Exam!

Welcome to the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Certification (PHM-BC) Review Resource Center, your online guide to preparing for the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Certification Exam (PHM-BC). Here you will find access to a variety of resources to help you as you prepare to take the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Certification Exam (PHM-BC).

Course available in 2 formats:

Course Overview:

The PHM-BC Review Course provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of psychiatric-mental health nursing care based on the PHM-BC Exam content outline. Participants receive information that will not only promote certification exam success but will also enhance clinical nursing practice.

Course Objectives:

Review and discuss psychiatric-mental health nursing certification exam content based on the PMH-BC certification exam content outline.
Attain information to support and enhance psychiatric-mental health nursing practice.

Course Outline:

Session 1: Exam and E-Course Overview and Test Taking
Session 2: Mental Health Disorders and Psychiatric Mental Heath Nursing – Assessment and Concepts
Session 3: Neurocognitive Disorders
Session 4: Psychotic Disorders
Session 5: Affective Mood Disorders
Session 6: Personality Disorders and Substance Abuse
Session 7: Trauma and Stress Related Disorders
Session 8: Psychiatric Legal Issues
Session 9: Patient Education
Session 10: Psychiatric Medications

About the course instructor:

Hayley Bivens, MSN, PMHNP-BC, CEN, TCRN

Hayley has 13 years of clinical nursing experience working in trauma, critical care, and psychiatric mental-health nursing caring for patients across the lifespan. Her clinical practice experiences include working in the emergency department, transport team, flight nursing, inpatient and outpatient psychiatry. In this review course, Hayley provides a thorough trauma nursing content review to support your clinical practice and prepare you to take and pass the PMH-BC exam.

About Contact Hours:

Live course contact hours: 8 hours

E-course contact hours: 7.5 hours

For Nurses Outside of Florida and California: Nurse Builders is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

For Florida and California Nurses: Nurse Builders is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (provider #15118) and the Florida Board of Nursing (provider #50-9679).

Are you a hospital and interested in live web streaming or e-courses for your nurses, and have questions?