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Deidre began her nursing career on a medical-surgical unit at Piedmont Hospital then shifted to a mental health focus. She spent ten years in various roles at psychiatric facilities, with an emphasis on the inpatient care of adult and older adult psychiatric and substance use disorders. Deidre was co-founder of a K-8 charter school in Georgia, where she also worked as a school nurse. She has taught for the University System of Georgia since 2012.

Professional Organizations

• American Psychiatric Nurses Association
• Georgia Association for Nursing Education
• National League for Nursing
• National Alliance on Mental Illness
• Mental Health First Aid/National Council for Wellbeing
• Sigma Theta Tau International, Tau Psi at-Large Chapter

• Mental Health Nursing
• Substance Use and Addiction
• Integrative Care
• Care of Older Adults
• Undergraduate Nursing Education