Mylene Alberto, APN

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Mylene Alberto, APN has been a psychiatric and mental health nurse for twenty-five years. She is board certified in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing through the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Mylene completed the accelerated nursing program from Seton Hall University where she received her bachelor’s degree in Nursing. While attending Seton Hall University, she was inducted in the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She received her master’s and Advanced Practice Nursing Degree from New York University. She was selected by the NYU College of Nursing faculty as the Distinguished Student in recognition for excellence in the Advanced Practice Nursing in the Mental Health program.

Mylene worked in a large independent private practice as a psychiatric nurse practitioner assessing and diagnosing mental health issues and offering psychotherapeutic and pharmacotherapeutic interventions. She worked at New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center as a Clinical Nurse Educator and taught research-based stress management workshops for the nurses. She also chaired committees at Columbia University Medical Center and created programs to improve patient care and experience. She worked as a nurse practitioner for the Consultation Liaison Service for the Department of Psychiatry at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, New Jersey. She was a nurse manager of the inpatient psychiatric unit at Hackensack University Medical Center where she worked for 14 years. She has held leadership and educator roles at Hackensack University Medical Center. She worked on obtaining disease-specific certification for depression from Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). She also designed and taught a stress management module for the nurses.

Mylene has collaborated extensively with patients with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, substance use disorders and schizophrenia. “I have an excellent opportunity to advance the well-being of behavioral health patients by maintaining a knowledge base that incorporates both basic medical and mental health needs,” Mylene says. “By providing holistic, patient-centered care based on standards of excellence, education, and research, I can impact the quality of life of the behavioral health consumers.”