Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: Special Student Pack

Jeffrey S. Jones, DNP, RN, PMHCNS-BC, CST, LNC, is an American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) board-certified psychiatric clinical nurse specialist; an American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) board-certified sex therapist; an American Bar Association (ABA)-approved legal nurse consultant; and an entrepreneur. He is past president and owner of Pinnacle Mental Health Associates, Inc., a private practice, consulting/contracting firm in Mansfield, Ohio. He received his DNP in 2007 from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and his MSN in psychiatric nursing from the University of Akron in 1997. He most recently was a visiting faculty at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. He is a lead editor/author of PsychiatricMental Health Nursing: An Interpersonal Approach, Second Edition (Springer Publishing Company, 2017). He is also a contributing author to Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing: Integrating Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Complementary and Alternative Approaches, Second Edition (Springer Publishing Company, 2016), and Foundations of Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice, Second Edition (Springer Publishing Company, 2014). He has served on the Richland County Mental Health Board and the Ohio Board of Nursing Standards and Practice Committee and as a content expert on psychiatric nursing for the ANCC. Dr. Jones has provided service to the mentally ill in hospital settings, outpatient clinics, prisons, and private practice. He is the past chief nursing officer for the Ohio Hospital for Psychiatry. He is currently a psychiatric APRN for ViaQuest in Dublin, Ohio, and an active member of the AASECT. VICKIE L. ROGERS, DNP, RN , joined the faculty at Texas Christian University (TCU) in August 2014, where she teaches Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. She received her DNP from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and her MS and BS in nursing from the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Rogers has previously held faculty appointments at various schools of nursing in Mississippi and Connecticut. Additionally, Dr. Rogers has international teaching experiences in the Caribbean. She is a contributing author of a chapter in the book, Giving Through Teaching: How Nurse Educators Are Changing the World . She has worked in psychiatric clinical nurse specialist and management roles in the past. Research interests include the use of the Internet as a format to provide individual therapy to young adults. Dr. Rogers has presented her work internationally, and has published on this topic.