
Holly Carlson, MSN, PMHN-BC, CNE
Holly is an Assistant Director & Associate Professor of Nursing at William Jessup University, where she teaches across undergraduate nursing courses including mental health, pharmacology, public health, leadership, ethics, research, and statistics. She is board approved to teach both lecture and clinical in mental health, medical-surgical, and geriatric nursing and serves as a Mental Health Content Expert.
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Holly holds a Master of Science in Nursing Education from Indiana Wesleyan University and is currently completing a Doctor of Ministry at Kairos University. Her doctoral project explores mentoring as a strategy for building resilience in nurses, integrating professional formation with faith-based support. Clinically, she has extensive experience in psychiatric crisis nursing, home health, wound and ostomy care, and quality improvement, including leadership roles within Kaiser Permanente.
Her professional interests include nurse resilience, mental health integration across care settings, ethical and spiritual decision-making in healthcare, and faculty and student well-being. She is a Certified Nurse Educator, a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality, and maintains board certification in psychiatric mental health nursing. As a board member at Better Bridge Holly helps to maintain cirriculum quality and serves as a bridge to institutions of higher learning.







