Kim Jardine-Dickerson - "The Hope With NAMI".
September is Rotary International "Basic Education and Literacy Month".
September Program Chairman: Carrie Athay
September Sergeant-At-Arms: Larissa Hale
September Greeter: Kathy McBride
Kim Jardine-Dickerson is an assistant clinical professor at ISU School of Nursing. She has been teaching at the school of nursing for 12 years, and has a master’s degree in nursing education. She is a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse and a certified alcohol and drug counselor.
Jardine-Dickerson is currently interim undergraduate director in the school of nursing.
Jardine-Dickerson was instrumental in starting Idaho Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) a model of advocacy, training and education for law enforcement and other community stakeholders. She works with CIT training in Pocatello.
Jardine-Dickerson has been on the Idaho State Behavioral Health Planning Council appointed be the governor and a regional Behavioral Health Board. She has been the past National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) board president. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA), Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) and the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL).