Meet Megan
Megan’s passion for mental healthcare has been a guiding force since her early teens, although she initially struggled with the specific role she wanted to play. By the time she graduated high school, her path became clear – she chose nursing school with the goal of becoming a psychiatric nurse. Megan became an RN at the age of 21 and has worked in mental health for the entirety of her career. Her work at an inpatient psychiatrichospital fueled the desire to better serve her own community.
Megan earned a Master’s Degree from the University of Cincinnati in 2013, achieving board certification as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP). Her work experience includes outpatient medication management, particularly in underserved areas of rural Ohio as well as a residential treatment center for adolescents and adults dealing with substance use disorders. Megan have worked via telehealth, face to face, and telephone, such was the case at times during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Megan’s responsibilities have extended to medication management for crisis stabilization units, oversight of a Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) program, and administrative leadership for nurses and fellow
APRNs. Between 2020 and 2022, Megan served as preceptor to five PMHNP students who are now positively impacting their own communities. During this same time, Megan started an adjunct faculty position that eventually
became full time at Regis College. Megan is now the program director for the online PMHNP program at Regis College. Additionally, doctorate work prepared her to better serve her community by means of analyzing available health data, creating innovative strategies to improve outcomes, and developing interprofessional partnerships to improve mental health literacy. Having defended her dissertation on K-12 educator mental health literacy, she will officially graduate with her Doctorate in Nursing Education in May 2025.