Mastering the PMHNP Boards / A Comprehensive Certification Review (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798996648405)

Pass the PMHNP boards with confidence.

Mastering the PMHNP Boards is a comprehensive, evidence-based review built for both psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner certification exams: the ANCC PMHNP-BC and the AANPCB PMHNP-C. Written to both blueprints, a single read prepares you for either path. Instead of asking you to memorize disconnected facts, this book teaches the reasoning behind the answers, so you understand the why and walk in ready to apply it.

What's inside

• 20 in-depth chapters across six parts: scientific foundations, psychopharmacology, assessment and emergencies, the major psychiatric disorders across the lifespan, psychotherapy and professional practice, and a test-taking capstone
• 500+ board-style review questions, each with a full rationale and an analysis of why every distractor is wrong
• Two complete 150-item practice exams, weighted to the ANCC and AANPCB blueprints, with answer keys
• Clinical pearls, memory hooks, safety alerts, worked patient scenarios, and quick-differentiation tables in every chapter
• Current to DSM-5-TR and today's evidence-based guidelines, including the latest in psychopharmacology

What you'll master
Neuroscience and the drug classes you prescribe; assessment, the mental status exam, and screening tools; suicide and violence risk and psychiatric emergencies; mood, anxiety, trauma, psychotic, neurodevelopmental, neurocognitive, personality, eating, and sleep disorders; psychotherapy and the theories behind it; ethics, law, and scope of practice; coding, billing, and credentialing; and a proven test-taking strategy with a staged study plan.

Who it's for
Nurse practitioner students preparing for initial certification, experienced NPs adding the PMHNP credential, and educators seeking a single, blueprint-aligned review.

Written by a doctorally prepared nurse practitioner and Teaching Professor who has designed graduate NP curricula for more than a decade, Mastering the PMHNP Boards distills years of teaching and clinical practice into one focused, board-ready review.

Study smarter. Walk in ready. Pass with confidence.