Jayne D. J. Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Ms. Jayne D. James is currently our part-time Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. Ms. James works full-time for Loudoun County Community. Services Board, where she is the only Nurse Practitioner in the clinic. Ms. James serves a variety of patients in the community, from adolescents to the elderly. Ms. James began her lifelong career in healthcare as a nursing assistant at Fauquier Hospital, a small community hospital in Warrenton, VA, in 1971. She received her Associate Degree in Nursing in 1977 and worked in medicine, OB, ICU, and Emergency until she moved to Northern Virginia and began working with Older Adults primarily as a Charge Nurse. In 1979, Ms. James started her career in behavioral health at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington D.C., working as a staff nurse and relief Charge Nurse until 1982. In 1982, Ms. James started at Inova Fairfax Hospital on the Psychiatric Unit as a Nurse Manager, and in 2010, she retired after 28 years of dedicated service.
Ms. James obtained an associate in nursing at Northern Virginia Community College, a BSN, an MSN from George Mason University, and a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Board Certified by ANCC. Ms. James also graduated from the Post Masters’ Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Certificate Program at Shenandoah University in 2011. Ms. James has worked in many capacities: Management Coordinator, Nurse Manager, Manager of Older Adults Program, Manager of Residential Program, Adjunct Nurse at the University and Community College level, Nurse Consultant, Nurse Author, Mentor, Speaker on Mental Health, and Aging Issues, and as an agency nurse as well.
Ms. James is the former CNO of North Spring Behavioral Health, a child and adolescent residential and acute hospital. She is also the former Chief Nurse Executive of Eastern State Hospital,. ESH is the oldest behavioral health hospital in the country, founded in 1773 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Its patient census capacity is 302, and it employs up to 500+ nursing staff. Ms. James saved the State of Virginia 12 million dollars in mandatory overtime reductions during her tenure.
Ms. James has also worked for Diamond Healthcare as a Nurse Consultant and Nurse Educator. Most recently, she worked as interim director of nursing at Southern Maryland Hospital’s behavioral health program. Also, Ms. James has stepped into that entrepreneurial role and is a Nurse Consultant and board-certified therapist specializing in geriatrics and LGTBQ communities. Ms. James, in her support of nursing academia, has been adjunct faculty for Shenandoah University and has taught at Northern Virginia Community College and George Mason University, taking nursing students to Barbados for their Public Health Clinicals and, while in graduate school co-authored the children’s book, “The Magic Stethoscope” Ms. James is the proud mother of two amazing adults, Jarre, and Ebony and also is a proud “Nannie” to her wonderful “grandson” “ELIJAH”. Recently Ms. James added a daughter-in-law and bonus grandson to her family.
Ms. James enjoys her family, friends, and encourages nurses and nursing students. Ms. James is a mentor to many, active in the community serving on boards and serving the elderly.
