10/07/2026
Ask the learners who have trained alongside Trisha Price-Smith, and you’ll hear the same thing: “I love that she spent the ENTIRE time with us on the floor,” one learner wrote. “Makes you feel at ease.”
Price-Smith, DNP, PMHNP, RN, assistant professor I in Experiential Learning at Nightingale College, did not arrive in nursing through a straight line. She arrived by following work that was both practical and deeply human. Science and problem-solving sat on one side. Presence with people in their most vulnerable moments sat on the other.
That combination took her through acute care, corrections, home health, hospice, case management, and behavioral health. What kept drawing her attention was rarely only the medical problem in front of her. It was the person behind it: what they feared, what they had survived, what they believed, and what helped them move forward.
Psychiatric mental health nursing was the place where more of those pieces could exist in the same room. Becoming a PMHNP felt less like leaving nursing and more like finding the part of nursing that fit her most completely.
“You could say that I was looking for the sector of nursing that could hold all of me,” said Price-Smith. “All of them held parts of me, but nothing has had room for all of me quite like psychiatry. Still waters run very deep. I run very deep.”
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