{"id":2781,"date":"2015-03-25T11:41:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new-look.mancini.brandonu.ca\/health-studies\/?page_id=2781"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:19:03","slug":"requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mpn\/admissions\/requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class='post-2781 float'><p><strong>Please Note: At this point in time,\u00a0applications from international students are not being considered.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/aside><h2>Admission into the Master of Psychiatric Nursing program requires:<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Licensure, or eligibility for licensure, as a registered psychiatric nurse or registered nurse in Canada with mental health nursing experience;<\/li>\n<li><span>An undergraduate degree in either psychiatric nursing and or nursing OR a diploma in psychiatric nursing accompanied by an alternative undergraduate degree <\/span>which includes a research methods course and a statistics course. If the undergraduate program does not sufficiently prepare students for the MPN program, additional courses may be required and must be completed prior to admission;<\/li>\n<li>A minimum GPA of 3.0 (B) in the last 60 credit hours of university study or all credit hours of post-diploma degree if less than 60 credit hours;<\/li>\n<li><span>At least 1800 hours of practice experience in psychiatric\/mental nursing is required.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please Note: At this point in time,\u00a0applications from international students are not being considered. Admission into the Master of Psychiatric Nursing program requires: &nbsp; Licensure, or eligibility for licensure, as a registered psychiatric nurse or registered nurse in Canada with mental health nursing experience; An undergraduate degree in either psychiatric nursing and or nursing OR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":650,"menu_order":-1000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2781","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4459,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2781\/revisions\/4459"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/mpn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}