Jill Day, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC

About

Jill Day is a lecturer in the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner specialty. She completed her first undergraduate degree at Florida State University, and following a twelve-year career in government relations, pursued a career in nursing, earning her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Fairfield University. With a desire to focus on the care of women and children, Dr. Day’s nursing career began as a labor and delivery nurse, transitioned to women’s health nursing, school nursing, and finally, mental health nursing. She returned to Fairfield University and completed a Master of Science in Nursing in the PMHNP program. She was awarded 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. Dr. Day is an alumna of the YSN Class of ’24, earning the Clinical Doctor of Nursing Practice.

Clinical Practice/Research Interests

Dr. Day is a clinical lead at the Center for Interventional Psychiatry at the Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital. She is also in private practice, with a focus on treating mood and anxiety disorders in children, adolescents, and young adults. Currently, her scholarly writing focuses on the benefit of brief therapy work during esketamine treatments. She is also co-investigator in a study involving neuroplasticity in new esketamine patients.

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.”