Expertise

Keywords: Community Mental Health

Research Interests

  • PTSD and Trauma related prevention/treatment
  • Education of PMH APNs in full scope of practice
  • Reflective Practice
  • Global health through community engagement
Affiliations

Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of South Alabama

Past Affiliations

Associate Professor, School of Nurisng, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio TX (past)

Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, University of Tennessee Health Science Center (past)

Assistant Professor, Nursing (Memphis Campus), The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (past)

Program Director: Assistant Professor, School of Nursing & Health Professions, Brandman University (past)

Communities
Nursing
Degrees
DNSc, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Family Psychiatric Nursing, 2006
MS, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Psychiatric Nursing, 1993
BS, State University of New York at Albany, Nursing, 1992
ASN, Suffolk County Community College, Nursing, 1977
Keywords
refugee or immigrant services integrative medicine education or instruction (health or safety or medical) community health psychiatric-mental health nursing ptsd and trauma informed care reflective practice health education
Languages
English
Honors

Safra Parkinson's Foundation Visiting Nurse Faculty Scholar, Parkinson's Foundation, 2018-2019

Living Legend, I-HELP Foundation Los Angeles, 2017

Safra Parkinson's Foundation Visiting Nurse Faculty Scholar, Parkinson's Foundataion, 2014-2015

Fellow: American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners now American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 2012 forward

Associations
American Psychiatric Association
American Association of Nurse Practitioners
American Psychiatric Nurses Association
International Society of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses
Transcultural Nursing Society