Kathleen R Tusaie Editor

Kathleen R. Tusaie, PhD, PMHCNS/NP-BC, is Professor of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing and Lead Faculty, Psychiatric NP Program, University of Akron. She has also been in private practice since 1988. Dr. Tusaie is certified as a PMH RN (AACN), and as a CNS (AACN). In addition, she holds certificates in Advanced Pharmacology, Multicultural Nursing, EMDR, Psychoneuroimumunology, Brief Psychotherapy, CBT, Clinical Hypnosis, and as a Bowan Family Therapist. In addition to the University of Akron, she has taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University School of Nursing. Dr. Tusaie's clinical experience has been in psychiatric nursing. She has researched and published widely on psychiatric nursing topics and has presented at national conferences, including APNA ENRS and MNRS. Dr. Tusaie has been the PI or co-PI in five funded research projects and has received many awards and honors.

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, is 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 Nursing Concept Analysis: Application to Research and Practice (2016); and Theory in Nursing: Application to Research and Practice (2014) , both co-edited with Geraldine McCarthy, and Encyclopedia of Nursing Education, co-edited with Mary Jane Smith and Roger Carpenter (2015). She also co-edited, with Kathleen Tusaie, the first edition of Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing: Integrating Psychotherapy, Psychopharmacology, and Complementary and Alternative Approaches (2012).