Michael Valenti – Nursing Faculty Profile, University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
Michael Valenti, Nursing Faculty at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS), was drawn to psychiatric mental health nursing because of the growing need for mental health and integrated care services. He prepares students to diagnose, treat, and manage complex psychiatric conditions while also helping them understand the larger systems that shape patient care.
Valenti has a particular interest in psychopharmacology and the way it connects concepts such as psychoneuroanatomy to real clinical decisions. He enjoys helping students make those connections and understand how what they learn in their coursework applies to patient diagnosis and treatment.
His goal is to help students feel prepared not only for their coursework, but for the patients and communities they will serve as psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners.
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Michael Valenti – Nursing Faculty Profile, University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
[00:00:00] Michael Valenti (Nursing Faculty): I recognized that there’s a significant and growing need for mental health services and integrated care services, and I felt that this was my best opportunity to provide those services to people. [00:00:11] Michael Valenti (Nursing Faculty): It helps prepare students to be leaders in the field. It helps students to not only understand, diagnose, treat, and manage patients with complex disorders, but also look at systems, systems of care, and be change agents within the system of care. [00:00:28] Michael Valenti (Nursing Faculty): I love psychopharmacology. I think, you know, combining that with the knowledge of psychoneuroanatomy, and all of your other core subjects, to me psychopharmacology is where it all comes together in the diagnosis and management of our patients. [00:00:46] Michael Valenti (Nursing Faculty): So I know that our students are working, they’re working jobs, they’re on both coasts. The time zones are different. They’re, you know, leading lives, helping raise families, have other important tasks. And so I want to make myself available to them as much as possible. And I think for anybody who’s drawn to this profession, we should be doing all that we can to support individuals that want to provide care to those who are the most vulnerable, those who are in the greatest need.
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