Nursing students at the CTEN facility at School of Nursing

Certificate Programs

60
Wisconsin clinical placement sites

1–2
Years to complete

3
Certificate programs

“We are very thoughtful about the time students spend on campus so we can keep the program as open as possible. The need [for mental health care] is huge everywhere, but especially great in more remote communities.”

Professor Gina Bryan, DNP, RN, director, Psychiatric Mental Health Care Certificate program

Creating Solutions for Patients, Health Systems, and Communities

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    Beyond Borders

    No matter where their journey takes them, all Badger nurses have one goal: to change lives through their strong commitment to service. Whether it’s bedside care, nursing research, or addressing global health issues — such as poverty and access to care — that service makes an impact on individuals, families, communities, and systems around the world.

  • Dr. Gina Bryan, clinical professor, School of Nursing, and director, Post-Graduate Psychiatric Certificate Program/psychiatric mental health, DNP program

    What Nurses Know about Opioids

    The opioid epidemic continues to claim lives, disrupt families and challenge communities, but nurses are hardly standing idly by. In many settings, they are creating solutions, implementing new programs, and driving change for nurses, patients, health systems and communities.   

  • Gina Bryan, director, the Psychiatric Mental Health Care Certificate program

    Certificate Program Helps Address State’s Mental Health Care Needs

    The School of Nursing's Psychiatric Mental Health Care Certificate program helps health care providers throughout Wisconsin get certified to prescribe and diagnose in mental health cases.

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    School Nurses—The Big-Impact Practice

    Despite the challenges Anna Melville faces at Sennett Middle School—workload, complex conditions, limited resources—Melville sees more opportunities than limitations, and she is quick to point out that that is why she’s here.

Students at the School of Nursing demonstrating methods to stop bleeding