Clinical Associate Professor in Nursing
Dr. Susan Yetter is a doctorally prepared Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, with specialized expertise in the treatment of older adults with mental illness. As a Clinical Associate Professor at USM she is both an educator in the USM PMH-NP program and a provider at Mid Coast Hospital’s Senior Mental Health Services. She received her PhD from Duquesne University, where her research focused on the mental health of older men who live alone. She received her BSN and MSN from the University of Pennsylvania.
Yetter, L.S. (2010). The experience of older men living alone. Geriatric Nursing, 31 (6), 412-418.
Yetter, L. S. (2009). Communication across the lifespan. In V. Hart, Patient-provider Communications: Caring to Listen (pp.168-175). Boston: Jones & Bartlett
The Experience of Older Men Living Alone, Dissertation Research Presentation, Eastern Nursing Research Society Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March, 2009
Mental Health Parity in the U.S.: Less than Meets the Eye, Poster presentation, Duquesne University School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, PA, May, 2005
The Experience of Older Depressed Women, Research Proposal Presentation, Duquesne University School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2004
