Mary D. Moller, DNP, ARNP, PMHCNS-BC, CPRP, FAAN Associate Professor Pacific Lutheran University School of Nursing Director of Psychiatric Services Northwest Center for Integrated Health Tacoma, WA

Dr. Mary D. Moller, DNP, ARNP, PMHCNS-BC, CPRP, FAAN is an advanced registered nurse practitioner who is dually certified as a clinical specialist in adult psychiatric-mental health nursing and a psychiatric rehabilitation practitioner. She is an Associate Professor at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA where she is Lead Faculty for the Undergraduate Psychiatric Nursing Program and coordinator for the development of a Doctor of Nursing Practice program for psychiatric-mental health nursing. She is also the Director of Psychiatric Services for Northwest Center for Integrated Health in Tacoma, WA where she is in practice as a psychiatric ARNP treating patients in a triple integration agency: substance abuse, mental illness, and primary care. She also conducts tele-mental health. From January 2009-August, 2014 she was Director of the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner specialty at the Yale University School of Nursing.

Her teaching foci include psychopharmacology, psychopathology, group therapy, 1:1 psychotherapy, mental health assessment and advanced practice nursing including legislative activity related to independent practice.

From 1993-2008 she was owner and Clinical Director of The Suncrest Wellness Center, located in Spokane, WA, the first independent nurse managed owned and operated rural outpatient psychiatric clinic in the United States. Suncrest was featured with Patty Duke on Good Morning America. In addition to her administrative duties she managed a full caseload of over 300 patients where she was responsible for primary mental health care including prescribing and monitoring psychotropic medications, conducting group therapy, and group psychoeducation on recovery from trauma, relapse prevention, and recovery from psychosis.

She is the producer and director of the award winning Understanding and Communicating With video series that has four videos. Mary has authored over 45 articles and book chapters and two books including a Mosby pharmacology review book and a new undergraduate psychiatric nursing textbook published by Pearson in January 2015 titled Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: From Suffering to Hope.

She has made over 900 professional and research presentations in all 50 states, Alberta, Australia, British Columbia, China, Cuba, England, Denmark, Hong Kong, Israel, Ontario, Singapore, and Quebec. She has received numerous awards including induction as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, President of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association from 2009-2010, and Distinguished Alumnus from the University of Nebraska College of Nursing Medical Center.

Her research interests include psychological adjustment to and symptom management in recovery from schizophrenia, a wellness approach to symptom management of recovery from trauma and abuse, and most recently identification of motivational strategies for nurse recruitment and retention based on self-determination theory. From 2009-2014 she served as part of the grant writing team and curriculum co-chair for the SAMHSA Recovery to Practice project with the American Psychiatric Nurses Association.

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