Joyce Fitzpatrick Editor & Author

Jeffrey S. Jones, DNP, RN, PMHCNS-BC, CST, LNC , is an ANCC board certified Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist, an AASECT board certified Sex Therapist, an ABA approved Legal Nurse Consultant, and entrepreneur. He is Past President and Owner of Pinnacle Mental Health Associates, Inc., a private practice, consulting/contracting firm in Mansfield, OH. He was recently visiting faculty at the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. Dr. Jones is a contributing author to Foundations of Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice, Second Edition (Springer Publishing, 2014) and Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing: Integrating Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Complementary and Alternative Approaches (2012). He has served on the Richland County Mental Health Board, The Ohio Board of Nursing - Standards and Practice Committee, and as a content expert on psychiatric nursing for the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Dr. Jones has provided service to the mentally ill in hospital settings, outpatient clinics, prisons, and in private practice. He currently works for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Joyce Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, is the Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, where she was Dean from 1982 through 1997. She has received numerous honors and awards including the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 20 times. Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature, and serves as Editor of three nursing journals. Her most recent Springer Publishing books are Theory in Nursing: Application to Research and Practice, co-edited with Geraldine McCarthy (2014), the Encyclopedia of Nursing Education, co-edited with Mary Jane Smith and Roger Carpenter (2015), and Concept Analysis, co-edited with Geraldine McCarthy (2015). She also co-edited, with Kathleen Tusaie, the Springer book, Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing: Integrating Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Complementary and Alternative Approaches (2012).

Vickie Rogers, DNP, RN , joined the faculty at Texas Christian University, USA (TCU) in August 2014 where she teaches Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. She has previously held faculty appointments at various schools of nursing in Mississippi and Connecticut. Additionally, Dr. Rogers has had international teaching experience in the Caribbean. She is a contributing chapter author of Giving Through Teaching: How Nurse Educators Are Changing the World (Springer Publishing, 2010). She has also worked in psychiatric clinical nurse specialist and management. Her research interests include the use of the Internet as a format to provide individual therapy to young adults. Dr. Rogers has published on this topic and presented her work internationally.