Donna L. Poole MSN, ARNP, PMHCNS-BC

Donna Poole embodies the core values of AAPPN—Connection, Education, Career Cultivation, and Advocacy. After more than 45 years in practice, she has entered into partial retirement by working one day a week as a nursing home psychiatric consultant for Kitsap Mental Health Services.

Her background includes extensive experience providing direct mental health treatment services, primary care consultation for behavioral health complications, and psychiatric consultation-liaison services for medical/surgical in-patients. She has served as Clinical Instructor for the University of Washington School of Nursing (Psychosocial and Community Health), the University of Alaska Anchorage, the University of Wyoming, and Catholic University of America.

She is a past president of the Association of Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses and the Washington State Nurses Association. Donna was initially appointed to Washington State’s Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission by Governor Gregoire and reappointed by Governor Inslee, she is currently the Vice-Chair.