Dolores Elliott is a Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Behavioral Health Program in the Research and Practice Development Service of the Clinical Center Nursing Department at the National Institutes of  Health (NIH). She has a B.A. in psychology with a minor in special education from Trinity College and a B.S.N.  from Columbia Union College.  She received her M.S.N. from The Catholic University of America.  She has provided direct patient care in the fields of  psychiatry, med/surg, ER, ICU, telemetry, maternal child and gerontology,  advancing to positions of  manager, consultant, educator, clinical nurse specialist and psychiatric nurse liaison. She has developed Nurse Internship programs for Medical-Surgical, Mental Health, Community Health and RN Refresher courses in hospitals and community sites.  She has taught, coached and mentored nursing students at the undergraduate and graduate levels of nursing. In 2001, she was recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award for all undergraduate nursing programs at Johns Hopkins University. She has been a Divisional Manager for Maternal Child/Mental Health at the Washington Hospital Center.  She consults throughout NIH assisting units to assess, plan and intervene with high-risk patients with psychiatric and addiction diagnosis, participates in high-risk protocol development and their implementation,performs Consent Capacity Assessments and documentation, and assist PI’s with monitoring ongoing protocol management. She is certified as an advance practice nurse by ANCC and a member of Sigma Theta Tau.

In July 2009, Dolores won first place for her poster on "Major Depression in Latino Children and Adolescents: Promoting Cultrual Awareness and Competency" at the National Association of Hispanic Nurses conference in San Antonio.

Program Interests

Education
Provides leadership support in the Neuropsychiatric Nurse Fellowship and Medical Surgical Internship Programs.

Lecturer in the Psychosocial Educational series for non-behavioral health nurses.

Committees

CRN 2010: Outreach Strategies for Clinical Research Nurses

Research Activities

Associate investigator: Effects of NK1R Antagonist on Alcohol Craving and PTSD Symptoms in Alcohol Dependent Patients with PTSD