Last updated on October 18th, 2024 at 10:29 am
Dr. Tara Haskins oversees partnerships to support AgriSafe’s Total Farmer Health initiative. She is also responsible for AgriSafe’s mental health programming. Tara contributes to curriculum design and implements new Total Farmer Health trainings that optimize and expand upon existing programs. She collaborates with organizations and government agencies that are interested in using the Total Farmer Health model as a public health framework.
Tara has worked in healthcare as a registered nurse for 37 years with clinical experience in medical surgical, critical care, crisis intervention and opioid and alcohol outpatient treatment. Dr. Haskins worked for 11 years in academia as lead faculty in musculoskeletal and psychiatric mental health nursing content across three universities.
She served as a consultant for an award-winning rural school-based telehealth program in North Louisiana. Dr. Haskins is a National Rural Health Association Fellow, AgriSafe Nurse Scholar, and an Edmond J. Safra Nurse Scholar from the Parkinson Foundation. She is a member of American Nurses Association, Louisiana State Nurses Association, Rural Nurses Organization, National Rural Health Association, American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, the Society of Total Worker Health and the American Holistic Nurses Association.
Dr. Haskins holds a Master’s of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing from the University of Texas at Arlington in the Nurse Practitioner track with a concentration on substance use disorders and treatment and a Nurse Educator certificate. Her doctorate is from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis in Nursing Forensics, focusing on the intersections of injury, psychological trauma and legal issues in individual and population health. She holds a board certification as an advanced holistic nurse through the American Holistic Nurses Association. Dr. Haskins is a certified QPR, CALM and Naloxone trainer.
Peer Reviewed Publications:
- Besler, C. , Stoltzfus, M., Haskins, T. (May 2024). FarmResponse: Improving mental health care by educating providers on agricultural health competencies. Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care. Blake, D., Roberson, S., & Haskins, T. (October 2020) “Promoting stigma self-awareness in nursing students through brief unconventional clinical experiences”. Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 15(4), 268-271.
- Barney, D., Haskins, T., Paudel, B. (2019). Rural health policy: Rural disaster preparedness. Rural Health Policy Institute, National Rural Health Association, Washington, DC.
- Hood, D., Haskins, T. & Roberson, S. (April 2018). “Stepping Into Their Shoes” The Ostomy Experience. J of Nurs Educa. 57(4), 233- 236.