Dana Murphy-Parker, MS, PMHNP-BC, CARN-AP, FIAAN
Ms Murphy-Parker is an ANCC Certified Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, and a Certified Addictions Registered Nurse – AP (Advanced Practice). Ms. Murphy-Parker is the Past President of the International Nurses Society on Addictions (IntNSA) serving in that role from October 2014 – 2016. As a Fellow in the International Academy of Addictions Nursing (IAAN), she is currently President of the FIAANs, and has been in that position since February 2019.
Her area of expertise is in the practice of mental health and addictions nursing. Ms. Murphy-Parker has 19 years of experience as faculty in both undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. Ms. Murphy-Parker currently works full time in a community mental health clinic in Western Colorado with persons who have co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
In October 2020, Ms. Murphy-Parker was again elected as President-Elect of IntNSA, and is the only past president of IntNSA who has been elected into that position for a second time. She will take on that role again in October, 2022.