Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing: Integrating Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Complementary and Alternative Approaches Across the Life Span

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Kathleen R. Tusaie Ph.D. RN PMHCNS/NP-BC is professor emerita past lead faculty of the Psychiatric NP Program at the University of Akron and co-owner of a private group practice. Dr. Tusaie is certified as a PMH nurse practitioner (NP) and CNS (AACN). In addition she holds certificates in advanced pharmacology multicultural nursing eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) psychoneuroimumunology brief psychotherapy cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and clinical hypnosis and she is a trained Bowen family therapist. In addition to the University of Akron she has taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University School of Nursing. Her clinical experience (since 1975) has been in psychiatric nursing starting as a staff RN then community mental health administration and progressing to advanced practice nursing. She has researched and published with an emphasis on the concept of resilience. Her textbook Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing: Integrating Psychotherapy Psychopharmacology and Complementary and Alternative Approaches Second Edition (Springer Publishing Company 2016) edited with Dr. Fitzpatrick is used in many graduate programs and received the designation as a Doody's Core Title. Dr. Tusaie has presented at national and international conferences including at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS) and Midwest Nursing Research Society (MNRS) and has been the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on five funded research projects. She is currently a member of APNA. Joyce J. Fitzpatrick PhD MBA RN FAAN FNAP is Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland Ohio where she was dean from 1982 through 1997. She is also adjunct professor Department of Geriatrics Ichan School of Medicine Mount Sinai Hospital New York New York. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Georgetown University) an MS in psychiatric & mental health nursing (The Ohio State University) a PhD in nursing (New York University) and an MBA (CWRU). In 1990 Dr. Fitzpatrick received an honorary doctorate Doctor of Humane Letters from Georgetown University. In 2011 she received an honorary doctorate Doctor of Humane Letters from Frontier University of Nursing in Hyden Kentucky. She was elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) (1981) and a Fellow in the National Academies of Practice (1996).She received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 20 times; the Midwest Nursing Research Society Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Research Award; The Ohio State University Distinguished Alumna Award; Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Elizabeth McWilliams Miller Founders Award for Excellence in Nursing Research; and New York University Division of Nursing Distinguished Alumna Award. In 1994 & 1995 she was the AAN/American Nurses Foundation (ANF)/ Institute of Medicine Distinguished Scholar and in 1995 she was a Primary Care Fellow through the Bureau of Health Professions. Dr. Fitzpatrick received the ANF Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Science Award for sustained commitment and contributions to development of the discipline (2002). Recent awards include STTI Lucie Kelly Mentor Award (2003); STTI Founders Award for Leadership (2005); Fulbright Scholar at University College Cork Cork Ireland (2007-2008); Midwest Nursing Research Society Lifetime Achievement Award (2010); INANE Editors Award (2013); and STTI Research Hall of Fame Induction (2014). In 2016 she was named a Living Legend of the AAN.Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature with over 300 publications including more than 80 authored/edited books. She served as co-editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research series vols. 1-26 and she currently edits the journals Applied Nursing Research Archives of Psychiatric Nursing and Nursing Education Perspectives the official journal of the National League for Nursing. She edited three editions of the classic Encyclopedia of Nursing Research.