• 37 years as a RN with the practice specialty of Community Mental Health Nursing.
• Have mentored over the last 20 plus years a total of 27 of her undergraduate clinical students as they pursue mental health nursing as their practice specialty and completed their NP in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing.
• Medicare-certified Psychiatric Homecare Nurse with over three decades in Home healthcare nursing and Psychiatric / Mental Healthcare nursing.
• National Site Visitor for Community Health Accreditation Partners.
• Interests include dismantling depicted stereotypes of mental health in society and compassionate mental health care in nursing.
Teaching Focus- Serendipitous learning modalities, reflective self-evaluations of caring attitudes and behaviors and Being Present caring interventions and evidence-based teaching strategies.
