About Laura: Certified
Mental Health Counselor
"My life mission is simple...help people."
"My motivation is simple...advocacy."
"My advice and opinions will take you to the inner circle of self-awareness, so you can be the boss of your mind and body."
Laura Giesman, NP is the founder and owner of Eleventh Hour, LLC. She is a professional registered nurse and a registered board certified mental health counselor/psychiatric nurse practitioner with over 15 years of progressive and responsible experience.
NP stands for Nurse Practitioner. A Nurse Practitioner is a registered nurse with a masters degree and licensed to diagnose and manage illness and disease and prescribe medications.
After more than 10 years in Emergency Rooms, Laura has seen and heard it all, and with her evidence-based practice, Laura can offer you advice, help, and a fresh look at yourself and your life decisions. Her expertise and social awareness brings mental health mainstream.
Eleventh Hour, LLC abides by nursing ethics, ethical codes of the legal profession, and internet ehealth code of ethics.
To keep current and to provide the best answers for you, Laura works in a hospital 24 to 40 hours a week, evaluating medical patients and emergency room patients for psychiatric illnesses, delirium, dementia, substance abuse, detoxification, and capacity issues. She also prescribes medications, recommends treatments and admits patients to psychiatric units and participates in ongoing educational activities.
Education
Fairfield University
M.S.N. School of Nursing 2000
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Program
Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Fairfield University
B.S.N. School of Nursing 1995
Registered Nurse
Harvard University
Certification, Radcliffe College, 1990
Book and Magazine Publishing
Boston University
B.S. College of Communication 1988
Mass Communications