Jill Day, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC
Lecturer
Master of Science in Nursing - Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Program
email: jill.day@yale.edu
About
Jill Day is a lecturer in the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) specialty. She earned her first undergraduate degree from Florida State University and, following a twelve-year career in government relations, transitioned to a career in nursing. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Fairfield University.
With an early interest in the care of women and children, Dr. Day began her nursing career in labor and delivery and subsequently practiced in women’s health, school nursing, and mental health nursing. She later returned to Fairfield University, where she earned a Master of Science in Nursing in the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program.
Following her graduate education, Dr. Day was selected for the prestigious Annie Goodrich Post-Graduate Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Fellowship in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital. She is an alumna of the Yale School of Nursing, where she earned her Clinical Doctor of Nursing Practice.
Her professional affiliations include the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She serves on the board of the Glastonbury Martin Luther King Community Initiative. She is also a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Clinical Practice/Research Interests
Dr. Day serves as a clinical lead at the Center for Interventional Psychiatry at the Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital. She also maintains a private practice focused on the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders in children, adolescents, and young adults.
Her current scholarly work focuses on the integration and potential benefits of brief psychotherapeutic interventions during esketamine treatment. She also serves as a co-investigator on a study examining neuroplasticity in patients initiating esketamine treatment.
Her emerging scholarly interests include the standardization of clinical education for PMHNP students. Her emerging clinical interests include advancing and improving mental health care for women in the postmenopausal period. She is also developing interests in epigenetics and cultural psychiatry, particularly their implications for understanding individual and population differences in mental health and psychiatric care.
Presentations
36th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Eastern Nursing Research Society, Boston, MA. “My identi T: Improving Mental Health Outcomes Through Group Support in Pre-Treatment Transgender Teens.”