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Christina Jolley is honored to join the undergraduate nursing faculty team at 麻豆精品. She is the course coordinator for the third year psychiatric nursing course and also teaches health assessment & fundamentals and pharmacology second year courses.

Christina earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice as a Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner. Her DNP project focused on the development of knowledge, skills, and attitude of pre-licensure nursing students in the psychiatric inpatient clinical setting. She went on to earn a post graduate certificate as a Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and maintains dual board certifications.

She maintains a small outpatient practice as a nurse practitioner in child & adolescent psychiatry and looks forward to hosting Carlow PMHNP students for clinical precepting. Previously, Christina practiced as a Registered Nurse in inpatient child & adolescent psychiatry for several years.

Christina is a proud psychiatric nurse and loves sharing this passion and knowledge with students. More than ever, there is a need for open, accessible, holistic mental healthcare in all treatment settings and she believes that students are our leaders in continuing to decrease and eliminate stigma.

Education

• Post-Graduate Certificate – Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (2021)
• Doctor of Nursing Practice – Pediatric Primary Care, Rush University, Chicago, IL (2018)
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (2012)

Professional Memberships

• National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (Since 2015)
• American Psychiatric Nurses Association (Since 2019)

Research

Interests: Undergraduate psychiatric nursing education

DNP Project

Improving the Student Nurse Experience Using an Experience Roadmap, Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic of UPMC:

• Address opportunity for improvement in pre-licensure student nurse feedback during psychiatric rotation
• Implementation of suggested clinical experiences roadmap based on BSN essentials for psychiatric nursing
• Provided communication and training for faculty clinical instructors
• Pre-/post-survey tracking of results with significant findings of improvement in student knowledge, skills and attitudes

Publications

• Physical activity and depressive symptoms in older adults, Geriatric Nursing, 2014.
• Medication-taking behaviours in young adults with schizophrenia, Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 2011