Seasat operated for 106 days until 10 October 1978, when a massive short circuit in the satellite's electrical system ended the mission. Seasat carried five major instruments designed to return the maximum information from ocean surfaces: Radar altimeter to measure spacecraft height above the ocean surface
Step 3: Gain Experience. Most psychiatric nurse practitioner graduate degree programs require applicants to have one to two years of clinical psychiatric nursing experience as an RN before considering them for enrollment.aster's degree programs for psychiatric nurse practitioners generally take one-and-a-half to three years to complete, depending on the school.
Once a medical student decides on a field of interest, he or she applies to residency training programs in that field. Residency training varies in length depending on the specialty. For example, family medicine training is 3 years. Both psychiatry and neurology training programs are 4 years. The first year of psychiatry residency includes at least 4 months of clinical training in either internal medicine and/or pediatrics and at least 2 months of neurology training.