Nurse Practitioner Rachel Hart is board-certified in mental health and has extensive experience in critical care, substance use disorder treatment, and community health nursing. During her career, she has held several leadership roles, taught Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, and taught as a college educator for an RN program.  

While preparing for her capstone, she demonstrated devotion to evidence-based practice with patient-centered outcomes and collaboration with pharmacists and an ICU team. Her project researched and implemented measures that saved many lives from sepsis while working in the ER setting. Her commitment to mental health is also not limited. She values every client’s personal goal regarding wellness and the individual's unique needs. Disorders not limited to anxiety, substance use disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and ADHD are some of the areas for which she offers her expertise in a culturally sensitive manner.

She continues to stay abreast of trends in care and professional development to best serve clients by maintaining organizational memberships and resources with the ANA, AANP, and APNA, and also to include both Illinois and Iowa nursing organizations.