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Gail B Williams, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC

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Professor/Clinical

Gail Williams

Gail B. Williams is Professor/Clinical in the School of Nursing at UT Health (formerly The University of Texas Health Science Center). For more than 20 years, Dr. Williams has taught in baccalaureate, masters and doctoral programs in nursing. Dr. Williams is an advanced practice nurse who has over 20 years experience as a clinical nurse specialist in psychiatric mental health nursing. She is Board Certified to practice as a clinical nurse specialist in adult psychiatric mental health nursing and has been the course director for NURS.6312: Advanced Mental Health Concepts (formerly NURS.6201: Advanced Mental Health Concepts and NURS.6101: Advanced Mental Health Concepts: Clinical Applications, NURS.6308) for the past nineteen years. She has served as a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.

Dr. Williams holds certification as a COI (Certified Online Instructor) through Learning Resource Network (LERN), River Fall, WI. In 2004, Dr. Williams successfully transitioned the Functional Minor in Teaching to the web. Dr. Williams responded to a call from the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) for online courses that could address the shortage of nurse educators. The Teaching Minor in web format (as developed by Williams) was selected and the School of Nursing was one of five institutions that offered online courses for graduate nursing students as part of an expanding SREB Electronic Campus. The Teaching Minor has been marketed to graduate nursing programs in the 16 SREB states and the District of Columbia. In 2005, Dr. Williams was recipient of the SREB Recognition for Significant Contributions to the Nurse Educator Consortium Initiative.

Dr. Williams has been an active member of the International Association for Human Caring since 1999; serving as a Board Member from 2003-2006. She has been a member of the Nominating Committee and chaired the Nominating Committee from 2006-2008. She has served as Chair of the Fundraising Committee from 2006-2010. Dr. Williams was President of the International Association for Human Caring from 2010 to 2012. As Past President of the International Association for Human Caring she served an ex-officio member of the Leadership Succession Committee (2012-2013). Dr. Williams was the Planning Committee Chair of 32nd International Association for Human Caring Conference in 2011. Dr. Williams served as the Planning Committee Co-Chair of the 34th International Association for Human Caring Conference which was held in 2013. She also serves as a member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal for Human Caring (IJHC). In the local community, Dr. Williams has served on the Board of Directors, Planned Parenthood of San Antonio and South Central Texas, San Antonio, TX. From 2003 to 2013 she has served on the Quality Management Committee, Planned Parenthood of San Antonio and South Central Texas.

Her funded research has been in the area of interpersonal violence prevention. Dr. Williams was the recent recipient of the 2012 Regents? Outstanding Teaching Award. This prestigious award is offered in recognition of faculty members in the University of Texas System who have demonstrated extraordinary classroom performance and innovative in undergraduate instruction. The Regents` Outstanding Teaching Awards are the Board of Regents` highest honor.

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Education

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Year Degree Discipline Institution
1991 PhD Nursing (Research) New York University
New York , NY
1978 Certificate Perinatal Nurse Clinician Program Adelphi University Garden City
Long Island , NY
1975 MS Nursing (Psychiatry) Adelphi University Garden City
Long Island , NY
1972 BS Nursing Hunter College
New York , NY

Appointments

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9/2017 - Present Professor Emeritus UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
9/2016 - Present Professor/Clinical UT Health San Antonio (formerly The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio), San Antonio, TX
2/2014 - Present Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Provider The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, UT Nursing Clinical Enterprise, San Antonio, TX
1/2014 - Present Online Faculty, School of Advanced Studies (SAS) University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
3/2012 - Present Professor, Cross Appointment The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Psychiatry, San Antonio, TX
9/1992 - Present Graduate Faculty The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, San Antonio, TX

Expertise

Dating Violence
Evaluation -
Evaluation of Computer Assisted Instruction and Written Nursing Process Assignment on Critical Thinking
Health Disparities and Intimate Partner Violence
Induced Elective Abortion and Grief
Reflective Journaling: An Educational Strategy
Screening Tools and Detection of Intimate Partner
Unintended Pregnancy and Violence

Publications

Abstract

Soucy MD, Williams GB, Novak JC. Delivery of Colocated Mental Health Services in Primary Care: An Innovative Model of Care. Proceedings in the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) 2016 National Conference, San Antonio, TX 2016; 2016 Jun.
Hastings, T., Williams GB. Applying Research Evidence in the Transformation of Psychiatric Undergraduate Nursing Education; A Quantitative Quasi-Experimental Study Addressing Nursing Student Attitudes Toward Mental Illness. Proceedings in the 18th Annual Conference of the Interna; 2016 Jan.
Williams GB, Soucy MD. Delivery of Colocated Mental Health Services in Primary Care: An Innovative Approach to provide Patient Centered, Quality-Driven Mental Health Services. Proceedings in the 18th Annual Conference of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health N; 2016 Jan.
Soucy MD, Williams GB. Interprofessional Collaboration: A Novel Practice and Education Model in Community Psychiatry: Proceedings in the 2015 International Society of Psychiatric ?Mental Health Nurses, Seattle, WA; 2015 Jan.
Gerardi MB, Berndt AE, Williams GB. Depression, Trauma, and Unwanted Sexual Contact in Adolescence. Proceedings in Communicating Nursing Research Conference, Vol 41. The Circle of Nursing Knowledge:; 2008 Mar.
Gerardi MB, Berndt AE, Williams GB. Strategies to Enhance Mexican-American Adolescents` Disclosure of Sexual Experiences to Health Care Providers. Proceedings in 33rd Annual Conference of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses: Hispanic Nurse; 2008 Mar.

Journal Article

Hastings, T., Kroposki, M., Williams GB. Can Completing a Mental Health Nursing Course Change Students? Attitudes? 2017.1278810">http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2017.1278810 Issues in Mental Health Nursing 2017 Jan;.
Williams GB, Berndt AE. Community-Based Partnership to Improve Parenting Skills and Academic Achievement and Reduce Subsequent Births. http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2394-4978/2016/192 International Journal of Nursing & Clinical Practice 2016 Jan;3(192).
Williams GB, Gerardi MB, Gill SL, Soucy MD, Taliaferro, DH. Reflective journaling: Innovative strategy for self-awareness for graduate nursing students International Journal for Human Caring 2009 Jan;13(3):36-43.

Teaching

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Date Description Institution # Students
1/2020 - 5/2020 Advanced Mental Health Concepts The University of Texas Health Science Center 6 students
Developed a concentrated and online course for two post master's students and a group of graduate students from Laredo, TX
6/2019 - Present Ph.D. Dissertations Directed University of Phoenix
10/2018 - Present Ph.D. Dissertations Directed University of Phoenix School of Advanced Studies
10/2018 - Present Ph.D. Dissertations Directed University of Phoenix School of Advanced Studies
5/2018 - Present Membership on Supervising Committee University of Phoenix School of Advanced Studies
10/2017 - Present Membership on Supervising Committee University of Phoenix School of Advanced Studies
1/2017 - Present Membership on Supervising Committee University of Phoenix School of Advanced Studies
1/2017 - Present Ph.D. Dissertations Directed University of Phoenix School of Advanced Studies
8/2007 - Present Individual Instruction The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
1/2001 - Present The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
8/1992 - Present Faculty Graduate Advisor (Master`s & Doctoral Students) The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
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