Sarah Carpenter   MSN, PMHNP-BC

Bio

Sarah Carpenter joined Vanderbilt University School of Nursing as a full-time faculty member in 2023 after working as a part time clinical instructor in the Pre-specialty program since 2020. She currently teaches in the Pre-specialty/MN programs as a psychiatric clinical instructor, Legal and Ethics seminar leader, and Fundamentals of Nursing lab instructor. Sarah started her nursing career as an RN at an acute care psychiatric hospital as both a floor nurse and admission’s specialist. As a psychiatric nurse practitioner she has worked in outpatient and consult-liaison settings specializing in psychiatric care of the organ transplant patient. Most recently she started private practice doing outpatient medication management for mood and anxiety disorders and infertility counseling.

Prior to nursing, Sarah received her bachelor’s degree in Religion and the Arts and minor in Photography from Belmont University. She is an avid photographer and has research interests in expressive therapies, mindfulness, meaning making, resilience, and reproductive mental health