I am a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and transitioned from 18 years of experience as a nurse to a nurse practitioner role in 2023. For 14 of these years, I served in various cardiac nursing roles and saw the importance of mental health and how this impacts one’s overall health outcome. Because of this, I made the move to work in the psychiatric field and discovered a newfound passion for advocating and working with those with mental and behavioral health conditions. I bring empath