Author

Silvia Y. Beaupre, MS, RN, NPP, APRN, BC

Silvia Y. Beaupre, MS, RN, NPP, APRN, BC has many years of experience as an educator and clinician. Providing online continuing education to multiple healthcare professionals has been her mission for many years. Ms. Beaupre's teaching experience has been in staff development in multiple healthcare organizations, as well the education of nursing students at the associates, bachelors and graduate degree level. Ms. Beaupre provides workshops and didactic instruction in face to face educational programs to multiple professionals, as well as provides education consultation to select professional organizations.

Ms. Beaupre is a board certified psychiatric nurse practitioner in private practice in the Capital Region of New York State. Her baccalaureate degree in Nursing is from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois and her Masters degree is in Psychiatric/Community Mental Health Nursing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her post-masters psychiatric nurse practitioner certificate was completed at the Sage Colleges in Troy, NY.

No conflicts of interest are reported by the author or by educational planning committee members.