Faustina Bello-Ogunu, PhD, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC
Clinical Assistant Professor
Education
PhD, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC (Public Health Sciences)
MSN, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (Family Systems Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing)
BSN, Charleston Southern Reserve University, North Charleston, SC
Certification: PMHNP-BC, ANCC
Work
Faustina Bello-Ogunu, PhD, MSN, APRN is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC). She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Charleston Southern University and her Master of Science in Nursing from Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Bello-Ogunu earned her PhD in Public Health Sciences from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a concentration in Behavioral Sciences. Most recently, while completing her dissertation titled “Depression, Anxiety, and Perceived Stress during a Pandemic: an Understanding of the Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on a University Community,” she concurrently worked full time at the Medical University of South Carolina as an Outpatient Telepsychiatry Provider.
Dr. Bello-Ogunu has experience teaching students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her lectures are informed by years of professional experience practicing psychiatric nursing across the lifespan and in various settings including inpatient, outpatient, home care, acute care, and telemedicine.
Publications and Presentations
Outside the classroom, Dr. Bello-Ogunu contributes to both publications and nursing associations. She has a wide range of clinical and research interests including community trauma, resilient coping, psychiatric mental health across the lifespan, graduate student mental health, telepsychiatry, and consult-liaison psychiatry. She has published in the American Journal of Surgery, Nursing Forum, Journal of Community Psychology, the Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health (2022 Best Research Article of the Year), and the Journal of Public Health Issues and Practices. She co-delivered a presentation called “Telemental Health Updates and Guidelines for Prescribing Across the Lifespan” for the APNA Annual Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute. She also co-authored the chapter “Disaster Preparedness: Insights from Characteristic Differences between Appalachian and Non-Appalachian Pediatric Emergency Networks” in Challenges in Disease and Health Research Vol. 8.
Community
Finally, Dr. Bello-Ogunu is involved in her local community. Aside from spending time with her husband and son, she is an active member of her church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has also served as a Disaster Action Team Member for the American Red Cross. Dr. Bello-Ogunu is an active member of the American Nurses Association, American Psychiatric Nursing Association, Sigma Theta Tau, National League for Nursing, and the American Public Health Association.