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JaShunta Carson, is a board-certified Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Ms. Carson has served patients in both medicine and psychiatry. JaShunta has worked in various medical hospital settings including Trauma, Burns, ICU, Emergency Room, PACU, Stepdown, and Med Surg units all while studying to become a Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. JaShunta wanted to be a well-rounded provider. Ms. Carson felt the only way to accomplish that is to become an expert in both medicine and psychiatry. JaShunta’s primary goal is to provide the best quality of care to as many patients as possible. She believes in practicing medicine from a holistic standpoint, in order to give her patients evidence-based care regardless of their diagnosis. Ms. Carson serves the entire life span. She has worked in every area of mental health serving adults, children, adolescents, and geriatric populations. JaShunta’s expertise is centered around Substance abuse, Dissociative Disorders, Trauma/Military, Cognitive Disorders, ADHD, Bipolar, MDD, Anxiety, Schizophrenia, and Schizoaffective disorders, to name a few.
Ms. Carson has also worked in various mental health care settings including inpatient, partial hospitalization, addiction medicine, and outpatient programs.
JaShunta L. Carson | PMHNP-BC
Academia
In addition to her clinical experience, Ms. Carson’s academic background includes a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude, a Master’s of Science in Environmental Science and Rural Occupational Health from the University of Alabama, where she graduate Magna Cum Laude, as well as second Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and finally a second Master’s of Science in Nursing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In her free time, JaShunta enjoys spending time with her son and family, traveling the world, and exercising daily. She enjoys mentoring nursing students and precepting Nurse Practitioner Students and is interested in working to streamline systems in healthcare delivery models. She is a strong advocate for empowering nurses and believes that nurses should play a pivotal role in shaping modern health care