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Diane Graff is a clinical assistant professor and clinical track coordinator for the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner program. She teaches in both the Bachelors and Masters programs. Professor Graff received her BSN and MSN from the University of Pennsylvania. Her primary focus for her Masters was on child and adolescent psychiatric nursing. Additionally she is abD from the University of Pennsylvania.
She has practiced nursing in a variety of settings: hospitals, partial hospital programs, nursing homes and private practice. During the period when she coordinated partial hospital programs for adolescents she examined the special risks for a cohort of adopted individuals.
Currently, she maintains a private psychotherapy practice that includes consultative work with nursing home patients. She has also developed a multi-disciplinary program for treatment of individuals who are severely overweight. Included within this population are those individuals who have had bariatrics surgery and are facing many of the psychological issues that necessitated the need for surgery.
She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, American Psychiatric Nurses Association,on the Violence Task Force, a member of the International Society of Psychiatric Nursing. |
