ElLois W. Bailey, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC portrait
  • Assistant Professor (Clinical), College Of Nursing

Education

  • Masters of Science in Nursing, Family Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, University of Utah. Project: Nutritional Patterns that Reduce Risk for Late-Life Depression
  • Doctorate in Nursing Practice, Nursing, University of Utah. Project: Advanced Clinical Nutrition Pilot Modules and Proposal for Increased Nutrition Content in Advanced Practice Nursing Education

Biography

Dr. ElLois Bailey (the “s” is silent) is a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) teaching in the PMHNP Specialty of the DNP Program at the University of Utah College of Nursing.  She earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree and a Gerontology Interdisciplinary Certificate. She is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and sees patients in a private practice.

Dr. Bailey served as the President of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Utah Chapter for four years during its revitalization. She was instrumental in changing a law in 2014 that reduced barriers to practice in Utah for Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners.

Prior to graduate studies where she was a Lawson Fellow, she was a Clinical Educator at the University Neuropsychiatric Institute where she created and championed the Ahead of the Curve professional development program for nurses. She is the mother of 8 and grandmother of 20, which is how she loves to spend most of her free time.

Career Highlights

  • Integrative Psychiatry Institute One-Year Fellowship Graduate
  • Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner
  • Former PMHNP Specialty Director in the DNP Program
  • Teaching & Mentoring PMHNP students
  • Clinical practice serving people with mental health challenges
  • Legislative efforts to remove barriers to practice for new PMHNP 
  • Clinical Educator at UNI - Ahead of the Curve professional development for nurses