Esther W. Jones

BSN, RN , Masters (Alumni)

Esther W. Jones, BSN, RN, is currently enrolled at Maryville University’s MSN-Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP).  She received her BSN from Marymount  University in Arlington, VA and also has a BS in Biology from the Xavier University of Louisiana.  It is her desire to obtain either a DNP or Ph.D. in Nursing with a clinical practice/research area focusing on women with mental health issues with a special concentration in mood disorders, sexual trauma and  abuse in pregnant women and teenagers.

She has also worked as a psychiatric nurse at a local  psychiatric hospital working on an inpatient adolescent and pediatric unit and is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) with  membership in the International Lactation Consultant Association.  I am an active member of Black Nurses Rock, American Nurses Association, American Association of Nurse Practitioners and former inductee in Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.