HIV/AIDS: An Overview

Dana Bartlett, RN, BSN, MSN, MA, CSPI Susan DePasquale, APRN and M. Lys Hunt, LICSW

Dana Bartlett RN, BSN, MSN, MA, CSPI has been an ER and ICU nurse for 16 years and has over 27 years’ experience as poison control center information specialist. Dana has published numerous CE and journal articles, NCLEX material, and textbook chapters. He has written widely on the subject of toxicology and was a contributing editor, toxicology section, for Critical Care Nurse. He is currently employed at the Connecticut Poison Control Center. Susan DePasquale, APRN is a board certified Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Her current practice is with youth and adults who have mental illnesses in both inpatient and outpatient settings. She completed her Masters of Art in Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia with a focus on the Inuvialuit Western Arctic Land Claim and Political-Economic Development, Masters of Science in Nursing at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, Washington with a focus in neurogastroenterology and the Post-Masters of Science in Nursing at the Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana with a focus in psychiatry. She has worked with small and rural healthcare teams in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, Canada, and at the Providence Health and Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle Digestive and Liver Disease Departments. She is an associate of the ROME foundation, an international organization raising awareness on functional gut disorders. Since 2014, she has been affiliated with the Montana State Hospital at Warm Springs, the Galen Forensic Mental Health Facility, part of the Montana State Hospital, Youth Dynamics Inc, Aware Inc, and Insight Telepsychiatry for Montana and Wisconsin communities. M. Lys Hunt, LICSW has been practicing social work for over 20 years. She earned her Master’s Degree from the Boston University School of Social Work and completed a post graduate fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her clinical work specializes in the areas of mental health and child and family welfare.