Alison Lighthall Miller

Alison Lighthall Miller, MSN, PMHRN-BC, FAIS, has been an RN close to 40 years, with a specialization in psychiatric nursing for 30 years. Alison is a Psychiatric Nursing Education Consultant, the author of several articles on caring for the combat veteran, the creator of the PMHRN Online Board Certification Exam Prep Courses, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Stress. She earned her BSN from Eastern Michigan University (Sigma Theta Tau) and MS in adult psychiatric nursing from the University of Illinois-Chicago. In 2004, she joined the US Army Nurse Corps, where she provided mental resilience training to troops and commanders prior to deployment and psychological debriefings to soldiers having just returned home. After discharge, Alison was recruited by Fort Carson to serve as their Psychiatric Nurse Consultant, tasked with helping reduce the active-duty solider suicide rates and to serve as team leader of their Behavioral Health Urgent Response Team. In 2016, she became HCA's Division Director of Behavioral Health Education for the West Florida area, where she was responsible for the development and roll-out of psychiatric nursing curriculum to 16 hospitals. She also created and ran an 8-week online exam prep course for the psychiatric nurses working within that Division, which helped over 70 RNs become Board Certified as Psychiatric Nurses during a 12-month span. Alison lives in the Smoky Mountains with her husband Marc, where they spend their off hours exploring the area’s many hiking trails.