Dr. Tari Dilks is a professor and co-coordinator of graduate nursing at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Additionally, she is the director of the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner track for a consortium of four universities in southern Louisiana. She has been in the psychiatric mental health field for over 40 years in a wide variety of roles and has spoken on the state, national, and international level on a wide variety of topics related to psychiatric nursing.