My name is Alison Ercole, PhD candidate, MSN, CRNP, PMHNP-BC, PMH-C.
I am a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with over a decade of clinical experience serving individuals across the lifespan. I am also a nurse educator, educating future mental health NPs at the University of Pennsylvania. During the COVID-19 pandemic, I changed my in-person appointments to online appointments. During this time, I became interested in teenagers’ thoughts on using telehealth for outpatient mental health treatment because not all of my teen clients liked talking about personal information using telehealth. Now that the pandemic is over, many providers continue to offer telehealth appointments. I am a PhD candidate at the University of Arizona, and I want to find out how teens build relationships with health care providers when using telehealth for outpatient mental health care.
Here are some of my published works:
Ercole, A., Morgan, D., & Shea, K. (2026). Perspectives of Therapeutic Alliance Using Telemental Health for Adolescents: A Scoping Review. Computers, informatics, nursing : CIN, 44(2), e01276. https://doi.org/10.1097/CIN.0000000000001276
Ercole, A., Wung, S.-F., Muzzy, A., & Prim, L. (2025). Electronic Health Records, Best Practice Advisory Alerts, and the User Interface in the Intensive Care Unit. Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 37(2), 277–290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnc.2025.02.007
Ercole, A., & Shea, K. (2023). Detachment in teleheath: An emerging concept. Western Institute of Nursing (2023). Leveraging technology to advance nursing and equity in research, practice, and education. Communicating Nursing Research (56), 1-401
Ercole, A., Gephart, S. & Shea, K. (2022). Global health in India: Lessons learned. Western Institute of Nursing. Justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI): Creating a nursing force for change. Communicating Nursing Research (55), 1-344
Buhikire, K. & Ercole, A. (2023). Academic-organizational partnerships as a model for global health nursing fellowships. Sigma Theta Tau International, Singapore