Mary Seed

I have over 38 years of nursing experience. I started on a neurology floor and quickly learned that my passion was for helping people experiencing behavior change as a result of mental illness. I started practicing in an inpatient psychiatric hospital treating adults, adolescents and children with behavior problems resulting from mental illness. After practicing for 10 years in this field, I pursued higher education in order to understand the etiology of mental illness and to help develop preventative models of care. My dissertation was to test and develop prevention programs that promote secure attachment for infants in the first year of life. My current research program is implementing and testing nursing interventions that promote recovery in adults experiencing mental illness. USF started the CNL track of the MSN program in 2004, graduating our first class in 2006. Once I learned about the CNL role, I became a believer that the CNL role was going to be instrumental in reforming healthcare. I was Chair of the MSN Department for eight years and have served as the Director of the RN-MSN program at the additional campus locations.

Teaching Areas of Expertise

Graduate Department-Nursing Research and Clinical Nurse Leader Program; Department of Community and Mental Health-Undergraduate Community Mental Health Theory and Clinical

• Recovero-oriented Models of Care
• Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
• Family and Infant Mental Health Promotion

• Peer Review Committee
• Academic Standards Committee, School of Nursing
• USF Committee on Children and Youth
• RN-MSN Program Director (2011-2016)
• Master of Science in Nursing Department Chair (2008-2016)

• PhD, University of California, San Francisco
• MSN, University of California, San Francisco
• BSN, Arizona State University

• Teaching Effectiveness Award, School of Nursing, 2002-2003.

• CNL Nurse Certification Board of Commissioner, AACN