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Ron Alcantara is a Board Certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, with extensive training in a variety of mental health settings, including inpatient and outpatient

She started her career as a Registered Nurse. She received her Bachelors in Nursing from UMDNJ and began working with the addiction population. After seeing the need for psychiatry

She has been employed in the Mental Health field for over 10 years. Providing psychological and medication evaluations, she focuses on building a therapeutic relationship with her

She also holds another board certification with the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as a certified medical-surgical nurse. Samantha’s main goal is to help her patient

After attaining a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Rutgers University in 2008, she soon realized that her passion for nursing was in treating the mental health of individuals.

Her approach is to work collaboratively with the clients and she focuses on teaching, health promotion, clinical guidelines, and integrative care.