Amy Niemas, RN-BC, BSN, MSW

Amy Niemas is a board-certified psychiatric/mental health nurse with more than a decade of direct clinical practice. She serves in a dual role as Clinical Content Director at NurseChartingPro (2026 — present), where she leads evidence-based nursing education content, and as a practicing Registered Nurse at the Charles George VA Medical Center in Asheville, NC (2019 — present), providing psychiatric care to veterans across inpatient and outpatient settings.

Her clinical specialty is psychiatric/mental health nursing, credentialed through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Day-to-day, that work centers on the screening instruments most nurses encounter on intake: depression screening with the PHQ-9, anxiety assessment with the GAD-7, and suicide risk evaluation with the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS).

Amy's path into psychiatric nursing is unusual and informs how she writes. She earned a BA in Psychology from the University of Texas (1991), an MSW from the University of Georgia (1997), and a BSN from Western Carolina University (2015) — progressing from social work into clinical nursing. Before joining the VA, she practiced at Mission Hospital in Asheville, NC. The combination of a clinical social work foundation and bedside psychiatric nursing gives her work a practical grounding in both the assessment and the human conversation that surrounds it.

Her mission at NurseChartingPro is to bridge clinical expertise with the documentation and decision-making resources nurses actually use at the bedside. Readers can trust her content because it is written by an actively practicing, board-certified psychiatric nurse — not a content marketer writing about nursing from the outside.