Amy Haycraft, DNP, APRN, CNP, RN-BC
Associate Professor-in-Residence
Biography
Amy L. Haycraft is an Associate Professor-in-Residence with the School of Nursing. She joined the UNLV School of Nursing in 2025 and teaches both in the undergraduate and graduate programs.
Expertise
Haycraft is a dual board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health and Adult-Gero Nurse Practitioner. She has 20 years of nursing experience, 11 of which were spent practicing as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in a high acuity community behavioral health/substance use disorder clinic. Additional clinical background includes cardiac and solid organ transplant.
Classes Taught
She teaches across the curriculum in the undergraduate and graduate programs. Courses taught include, but are not limited to, undergraduate mental health clinical, graduate advanced health assessment, and DNP projects.
Education Background
She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Northern Arizona University, a Master of Science in Nursing as an adult-gero nurse practitioner, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, and a doctoral degree from Arizona State University.
Research or Scholarship
Her research interests include general adult behavioral health and novel treatments, substance use disorders, specifically opioid and alcohol use disorders, as well as psychological trauma, including post-traumatic stress disorders.
Related Links
- The Journal of Nurse Practitioners: The Future for Psychedelic Agents in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners: Cannabis update: Anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder
- The Journal of Nurse Practitioners: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Substance Use
- Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services: Pregnancy and the Opioid Epidemic