Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space, but rather to improve the quality of life.
― Bertrand Piccard
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
This week’s recommended Health and Wellness Activity
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MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Marie Smith-East, PhD, RN, PMHNP-BC, MSN, MS, EMT-B, recently joined Your Teen Magazine to discusses current vaping trends and long term-effects. Learn more and listen to the full conversation, “Vaping: Do we know all there is to know? What’s next?” here (opens new window).
Season 2, episode 6 of “Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up!” is available at emfp.org/news/mental-health-trailblazers-podcast (opens new window).
This week, our host, Indrias Kassaye, is joined by Mr. Uriah Millen, a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) student, former Nurse Manager for the intensive care unit at St. Joseph's Hospital-North who recently moved on to behavioral health nursing. Mr. Millen opens up to Indrias about what he’s observed as a Black, immigrant man forging his own path in the field of psychiatric nursing. Uriah Millen believes providing mental health care is his calling and desires to impact minority youth suffering from mental illness and substance use.
The SAMHSA MFP/ANA 2022 Intensive Training Institute is scheduled for July 21-24, 2022 in Washington, DC. This year's theme is Building a Minority Workforce: A Call to Action for Addressing Health Disparities and Creating Health Equity. View our Schedule-at-A-Glance here (opens new window)
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