My name is Maria (Mia) Geraci, I am board certified as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and have been a Psychiatric Nurse since 1997. I graduated from Louisiana State University, School of Nursing in New Orleans with my Bachelor of Science in Nursing. I received my Master of Science in Nursing from University of South Alabama in 2003. I graduated with honors and was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society, and