NUR 420 Leadership Practicum and Role Transition

Ann Keeley has been practicing nursing at the undergraduate level since 1971.  She maintains membership in the American Nurses Association and has served as a delegate to the Georgia Nurses Association.  She has been a certified clinical nursing specialist in adult psychiatric nursing since 1987 and is currently licensed in the state of Georgia in her specialty as an advanced practice nurse.  She maintains an active license for marriage and family therapy in the state of Georgia and is a member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.  She has published research on "Nursing Resilience" and continues to present at local, state, regional, national, and international nursing conferences.  Her clinical, teaching and research focus is the integration of spirituality in the care of clients across the spectrum of life and nursing.  She is a volunteer parish nurse for a local church for the chronically mentally ill.