Tag Archives: Mental Health

The winners of the 2021 awards accomplished great things with the $25,000 awards. This year, applicants are invited to submit proposals through Dec. 16 for projects that strengthen our sense of community through arts and wellness. Winners of Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Arts and Wellness Innovation Awards exemplify the award’s ability to bring departments across campus […]

For Oncology Nursing Month, meet Assistant Professor Veronica Decker who has made it her lifelong mission to care for patients with cancer. Today she continues to make an impact as one of a few psycho-oncology experts in Central Florida and in preparing tomorrow’s healthcare leaders as director of the Nurse Executive DNP degree program. From […]

Since graduating from UCF, Harry Carroll ’07 ’17BSN has worked as a firefighter, paramedic and emergency room trauma nurse. In March, he opened a psychiatry practice in Brevard County, where he lives with his wife Melissa and daughter Claire. UCF Alumni spoke with Carroll about his time at UCF, his journey from firefighting to nursing, and […]

“The greatest good to society is to serve those with the least,” says Assistant Professor Michael Valenti, a mental health nursing provider, researcher and current president of the board of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Florida Chapter. In his Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing course, Valenti prepares undergraduate nursing students to care for people of all ages […]