Nurse Expertise:

Saint Francis School of Nursing Graduate West Hartford, CT., Registered Nurse 1996

Saint Joseph College West Hartford, CT., BSN, 2006, MSN Board Certification 2008

Certified Legal Nurse Consultant

• Nurse Educator University of Connecticut
• Red Cross Disaster Response Certified
  
• Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) State of CT. with the University of Washington -Dialectical Behavior Trained Individual and Group therapist
• DMHAS/UCONN Health Center CT- TARGET Trauma Trained Individual and Group therapist
• Staff Educator for DMHAS and CT. Department of Corrections

 

HONORS:

 

• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
• Saint Joseph College Deans List Honors BSN/MSN 2004-2008
• Pat Leach Memorial Award-Client Care, Southeastern Mental Health Authority, DMHAS, 2005
  

RN - APRN Experience:

Advanced practice role is accomplished within a higher level of formal degree and thereby allows for board certification, prescriptive authority, diagnosis authority, and implementation of prescribed treatment via leadership of clinical teams.

    

• 17 years experience as a nurse in the psychiatric field of expertise.
• 17 years experience in the recovery model that incorporates integrative care inclusive of psychiatric and medical treatment and health care collaboration of all providers.
• 14 years of nursing work in the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) for the state of Connecticut in the role of an RN, RN supervisor and clinical lead, and APRN.  DMHAS service also encompassed clinical performance review of staff and team, team coordination of care, client advocacy, legal case reviews and assessment, and expert witness experience.
• APRN Women's Correctional Facility State of Connecticut mental health program coordinator and prescriber.
  
• Experience includes community health care, hospital care, and correctional facility experience.
• Expert knowledge for health standards under JCAHO, FDA, Center of Disease Control, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychiatric Nursing Association, American Medical Association.
  
• Expert fund of knowledge related to examination of state health standards, and license requirements for hospitals and individual entity per state rules and guidelines, and per individual practice guidelines.

Expertise:

• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Holistic treatment of extensive medical and mental health disorders
• Addictions disorders
• Bipolar disorder
• Depression
• Schizophrenia
• Crisis Treatment

I am well versed in all DSM IV diagnosis, assessment, and treatment recommendations and have experience in community health, hospital care, federal prison care and state mandates, and emergency care.