Persis Mary Hamilton

Persis Mary Hamilton has a rich background in nursing, nursing education, and writing. She has written fourteen nursing textbooks for two major publishers. Her doctoral dissertation investigated the relationship of learning to behavioral objectives and visual design in a textbook. Persis Hamilton works with Wild Iris Medical Education to ensure compliance with American Nurses Credentialing Center accreditation guidelines. She is involved with assessing needs, planning, implementing, and evaluating all nursing continuing education activities offered by the company. Over the years Hamilton has worked in most areas of nursing. She taught for more than 40 years in vocational, associate degree, baccalaureate degree, and graduate nursing programs, served as item writer for the League for Nursing, and was the principle speaker at numerous continuing education workshops. In addition, she has conducted research in Micronesia as well as Guam. Currently, Persis maintains a private practice in psychotherapy. Recently she completed a historical novel about the care of psychiatric patients in the 1930's, entitled Deportation Train.