NPNY Psychopharmacology for the Non-Psychiatric NP

Jordana is a Doctorally trained Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with 19 years of health care experience. She received her Doctorate and Masters degrees from the Massachusetts General Hospital IHP in Boston. Jordana started off as at MGH as a researcher where she studied the neural pathways of thought disorders and the brilliant mind. Jordana was fascinated with restructuring negative thought patterns and enhancement of cognitive abilities, so she left research and shifted her focus to clinical practice. She then became a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and has an array of past experience as a researcher, nurse, and clinical nurse specialist. Jordana relocated back to NYC in 2010 to join the National Health Service Corp. She worked at NYU Langone’s Brooklyn campus with underserved clients from 2010 to 2016. Jordana continues to moonlight at NYU Langone Hospital. She has been a board member of Nurse Practitioners of NY since 2010. She is the present Chair of the Educational Committee and strives to bring continuing education to primary care and specialty health care professionals in the NYC area. She has lectured numerous primary care practitioners on psychopharmacological therapies. Jordana has 17 years of clinical experience as a Psychopharmacologist in various inpatient and outpatient settings. As a nurse, she provides holistic care, and as a previous neuropsychiatry researcher, and presently as a psychiatric nurse practitioner, Jordana will focus on maximizing your potential with minimal side effects. Specialties: General Psychiatry, Postpartum complications, Addiction, Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness, Adolescent, Adult and Geriatric populations.