Nurse Practitioner Mental Health

Gloria D. Mays, APRN-BC

Adult Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

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Ruston, LA 71270

318-***-**** (office), 318-***-**** (cell), 318-***-**** (fax) ***********@*****.***

CURRENT POSITION: Executive Director, Elisha Ministries dba Supportive Housing of NELA Leadership and Management Consultant for Behavioral & Psychiatric Services Nurse Practitioner, Consultant, and Owner, Mental Restoration Institute, LLC Glenwood Regional Hospital 503 McMillian Road West Monroe, LA 71291 In Collaborative Practice: Drs. Alfredo Torres, Aruna Gullapalli, and Christopher Bernadas, MD

EDUCATION

2005 Post-Master Adult Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, University of Missouri, Columbia: School of Medicine 1994 Master of Science in Psychosocial Nursing, Clinical Nurse Specialist Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA

1989 Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Registered Nurse Grambling State University, Grambling, LA

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

2005-Present Owner, Mental Restoration Institute, LLC Independent Consulting Nurse Practitioner

Owner, Executive Director, Elisha Ministries, A Faith-based Supportive Housing Program for Homeless Mentally Ill

2022 - Staff Independent Contractor Hospitalist – Glenwood Behavior Health 2006-2022 Staff Adult Psychiatric and Gero-Psych Allegiance Behavioral Hospital, Monroe

& Ruston and Allegiance Health of West Monroe, Intensive Outpatient Center 2008-2023 Staff Adult Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner- Serenity Springs Hospital, Ruston Higher Education

2019 – 2024 C-Adjunct Professor, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA 1998-2003 Assistant Professor, LA Tech University, Ruston, LA 1995 – 1998 Assistant Professor, Grambling State University, Grambling, LA Nurse Practitioner Prescriptive Authority -DEA Certified Prescriptive Authority (LA) DEA - 2N – V with DEA and LA Board of Pharmacy Registration Board Certified Adult Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, ANCC 2006, 2016, 2023 COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

Medical Executive Committee

2006 to 2022 Freedom Behavior of Monroe, LA

2011 to 2022 Serenity Springs Specialty Hospital, Ruston, LA EXECUTIVE / COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

2021 - 2023 Treasurer, The American Psychiatric Nurses Association of LA, New Orleans 2017 - 2020 Treasurer, The Advocacy Center of LA, New Orleans 2016 Certificate: Homeownership Counseling Certification: Principles, Practices and Techniques, NeighborWorks America, Washington, DC. 2015 Representative Pinkie Wilkerson Leadership Award, Delta Sigma Theta, Grambling, LA.

2014 Member, Community

HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

2022-2023 Developer: Gloryland Four Plex Apartments, Glory Lane, Ruston, LA PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

July, 2022 Harm Reduction and Substance Abuse, APNA-LA Conference, NOLA, LA March, 2019 Housing Options for the Mentally Ill, NAMI -Ruston October 2018 Faith and Friendship, Finding the Help You Need in Mental Health, NAMI - Ruston / NDHSD Partnership, Faith and Mental Health Conference, Ruston, LA September, 2017 Bipolar Disorders: Pearls and Pitfalls in Primary Care, LA State Nurse Practitioner’s Conference, New Orleans, LA.

September 2017 When Your Patient Can’t Get Well: Depression in Primary Care, LA State Nurse Practitioner’s Conference, New Orleans, LA.

August 2016 Addiction in HealthCare, LA State Nurse Practitioner’s Conf., New Orleans, LA November 2016, Depression Across the Lifespan: “Changing Times and Changing Minds Mental Health Symposium, West Monroe, LA

May, 2015 Innovative Mental Health Strategies, : “Changing Times and Changing Minds Mental Health Symposium, West Monroe, LA

BOOKS / PUBLICATIONS

2016 Spiritual Awakening: From Transition to Transformation, Gloria Mays, Author. 1998 A Taste of Louisiana, A NAMI Production, Gloria Mays, Author. ORGANIZATIONS

1995 to Present American Psychiatric Nurses Association 2006 to 2020 LA Association of Nurse Practitioners MISSION Service 12 Mission’s Trips

2005 – 2020 Medical Missions - Word Alive and Hope International, EM Medical Missions Japan, Germany, Israel, Bahamas, Grenada, Jamaica, Dominica, Africa

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