Suzanne Dalgarn, ARNP, is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner working in an outpatient clinic in Everett WA for the last 11 years. Her focus is the adult population with a special interest in ADHD, mood disorders and anxiety. She primarily meets with clients via telehealth, a mix of new and established patients for medication management and brief supportive therapy. She is also a professor of nursing at a local community college since 2000. Her focus at the college is mental health nursing. She has enjoyed mentoring future nurses into the role, helping them build empathy and understanding of clients struggling with mental health issues.
She is looking forward to the fellowship and the opportunities to gain better understanding of and skill in integrated care. She believes the community need is great for improved access and integration of care to help address the mental health challenges that impact global quality of life of all ages. She continues to envision that mental health and holistic wellbeing will and should be an ongoing focus of importance.
She sees this fellowship as an opportunity to build skills and strategies to improve access to care, continuity of care, and quality of care to the community at large.
In the next 5 years, she believes the emphasis on holistic care will continue to grow, as health providers build bridges together and with communities towards meeting best outcomes, providing clients with all the benefits of a holistic focus on mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing.