Dr. Mona Shattell’s educational background includes a Master of Science in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing from Syracuse University and a Doctor of Philosophy, Nursing, from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville Tennessee. She has experience in the education of nursing students from ADN, BSN, and Master’s levels. Dr. Shattell has taught Nursing Fundamentals and Psychiatric/Mental Health nursing at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina and Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She also taught Nursing Leadership and Management Theory Courses at Gardner Webb University in Boiling Springs, NC. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Nursing; Mental Health, Health Care Environments, Patient Care Quality at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Dr. Shattell has an interest in research and has worked on multiple research programs in both lead and support roles. Dr Shattell has worked in psychiatric nursing in a variety of settings, across a wide range of age groups, from children and adolescents, to geriatric psychiatric clients. Her study from 2002 “How Hospitalized Patients Solicit Nursing Care” was selected as part of a media campaign to promote nursing science by the National Institute of Nursing Research and Sigma Theta Tau International. Dr. Shattell is an active member of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses, the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, and the Southern Nurses Research Society.