Patricia F. Gardner, DNP, APRN

Assistant Professor

Contact

pattigardner@creighton.edu
College of Nursing
Faculty - Nursing
CRISS II - Criss 2 - 220F

Patricia F. Gardner, DNP, APRN

Assistant Professor

Patti Gardner, DNP, APRN-NP, PMHNP-BC is an Assistant Professor at Creighton University College of Nursing and currently practices at a small private practice in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is engaged with the American Psychiatric-Nurses Association and Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska, both of whom offer the opportunity to partner with stakeholders in opportunities to improve mental health care across the state of Nebraska. Scholarship interests include the promotion of evidence-based psychiatric-mental health services to individuals and communities that are socially marginalized, the development of innovative educational strategies to promote interprofessional practice, the developement of innovative practice strategies promoting medication adherence and workforce development to support quality psychiatric-mental health services and outcomes.

Teaching Interests

  • Substance Use Disorder

Research Focus

Innovation technology to support medication adherence.
ADHD.
Innovative teaching and learning strategies.
Perinatal mental health.

Department

Nursing - Doctorate

Position

Assistant Professor

Presentations

  • Stress First Aid (SFA) is a framework to improve recovery from stress reactions, both in oneself and in coworkers. The model aims to support and validate good friendship, mentorship and leadership actions through core actions that help to identify and address early signs of stress reactions in an ongoing way (not just after "critical incidents"). The goal of SFA is to identify stress reactions in self and others along a continuum and to help reduce the likelihood that stress outcomes develop into more severe or long-term problems. The core actions of SFA are appropriate for many occupational settings during critical events as well as for ongoing care. The manuals, trainings and resources below focus on health care workers; links to information about SFA versions specific to high-risk occupations like military, fire and rescue, law enforcement, and pretrial and probation settings are found under Additional SFA Versions and Manuals. 2024
  • I presented my DNP project/poster at the Nebraska Nurse Practitioner Annual conference. 2023