Dr. Sattaria ‘Tari’ Dilks is a Professor and Co-Coordinator of graduate nursing at McNeese State University. She also serves as the Director of the Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nursing Track within the Intercollegiate Consortium which is a consortium of four universities in southern Louisiana. She has been employed in almost exclusively in the psychiatric mental health field since 1975 in various capacities. She has been an invited speaker on the state, national and international level on a variety of mental health topics. Her experience in mental health has included education, private practice and a number of staff positions on inpatient psychiatric units.