What is the Modified Format of the VUSN PMHNP Distance Program?
The specialty year of the PMHNP program is designed to serve on-site students and students who live at a distance. All students attend “block classes” on-site at Vanderbilt School of Nursing eight times over a one-year period. These block classes may last from 3 to 7 day periods, totaling 32-34 days of on-site classes. Students must also attend a 3-day orientation. In between these eight “block class” periods, on-site students attend weekly classes on campus, and distance-option students access classes by Internet (video-streaming) and/or CD ROMs, which are mailed to them. This allows us to deliver more than 50 percent of the content “live” on campus.
