Peplau's Ghost

Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNP) discussing using psychotherapy within their practice. Four PMHNP program directors and a biostatistician from across the Unites States sharing their passion on how psychotherapy can help people with nearly all their emotional problems.

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Peplau's Ghost

Dr. Kate Wheeler

November 19, 2024 • Dan

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Welcome to a new episode of Peplau’s Ghost. We are thrilled to have in this episode Dr Kate Wheeler from Fairfield University. Many may know Dr Wheeler from her textbook Psychotherapy for Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses which has won the AJN Book of the year twice (2015 & 2018). We have an insightful discussion with Dr Wheeler who shares her extensive history of being the only nurse in her psychoanalysis training and how she went from being an ICU nurse to finding her way into psychiatric-mental health nursing. Dr Wheeler started one of the first PMHNP programs in the country and has led many of the first initiatives in keeping psychotherapy content within PMHNP programs. Dr Wheeler is also vulnerable in sharing that she too was scared to say the wrong thing on her first psychotherapy sessions and relied on consultation and supervision to help her through this initial imposter syndrome and even calls on others today with difficult situations. We can’t say enough great things about Dr Wheeler and stay tuned as there may be a part 2 in early 2025!

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Guest: Dr Kate Wheeler: KWheeler@fairfield.edu

Dr Dan Wesemann

Email: daniel-wesemann@uiowa.edu

Website: https://nursing.uiowa.edu/academics/dnp-programs/psych-mental-health-nurse-practitioner

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-wesemann

Dr Kate Melino

Email: Katerina.Melino@ucsf.edu

Dr Melissa Chapman

Email: mchapman@pdastats.com

Dr Sean Convoy

Email: sc585@duke.edu