Ms Murphy-Parker is an ANCC Certified Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, and a Certified Addictions Registered Nurse – AP (Advanced Practice). Ms. Murphy-Parker is the Past President of the International Nurses Society on Addictions (IntNSA) serving in that role from October 2014 – 2016. As a Fellow in the International Academy of Addictions Nursing (IAAN), she is currently President of the FIAANs, and has been in that position since February 2019.

Currently, Ms Murphy-Parker is a clinical practice faculty with the University of Colorado College of Nursing, Denver. Her area of expertise is in the practice of mental health and addictions nursing. Ms. Murphy-Parker is on the steering committee and an ‘Expert Panelist’ for the Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence’s United Foundation Health (UHF) grant to integrate behavioral health services in rural areas of Colorado by assisting and mentoring UHF graduate students in their transition to practice as PMHNPs. In October 2020, Ms. Murphy-Parker was again elected as President-Elect of IntNSA and is the only past president of IntNSA who has been elected to that position for a second time. She will take on that role again in October 2023.