A lot of different flowers make a bouquet.
The MFP is an initiative staffed by ANA with funding from SAMHSA, making fellowships available to ethnic and racial psychiatric nursing students who are enrolled full time in an accredited master’s/doctoral nursing program.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
This week’s recommended Health and Wellness Activity
HEALTH DISPARITY RELATED ARTICLES
HD Pulse: An Ecosystem of Health Disparities and Minority Health Resources (opens new window)
Visualize data and locate information critical to identifying and understanding minority health, health disparities, and the determinants or factors that contribute to them, at the national, state, and county levels. Read more (opens new window)
Incarceration associated with negative mental health risks for Black men (opens new window) (opens new window)(featured study created and conducted by current doctoral Fellow Helena Addison) (opens new window)
In collaboration with Sara Jacoby, an assistant professor in the School of Nursing, Addison evaluated what science currently knows about the psychological ramifications for Black men of going through such a detention. Reviewing nearly two dozen articles from the past decade, she discovered that for this group in the United States there exists a link between incarceration and higher levels of psychological distress, more severe symptoms of PTSD and depression, and many other facets of poor mental health. Read more (opens new window)
Inaccuracies in Medicare's Race and Ethnicity Data Hinder the Ability To Assess Health Disparities (opens new window)
The disparate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on various racial and ethnic groups have brought health disparities to the forefront. Health disparities are differences in health that adversely affect certain groups. People of color have been found to experience disparities in areas such as access to care and quality of care. Read more (opens new window)
Tribes show little interest in offering abortions on reservations despite speculation they could (opens new window)
The advocates said they hadn’t heard of any tribe or Indigenous organization advocating for opening clinics on tribal land to offer abortion services. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading provider of abortions, told KHN that it is not exploring this option and that such decisions should be left to Indigenous people. Read more (opens new window)
MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Congratulations to Dr. Bridgette M. Brawner for being selected as the day two keynote speaker for the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science (CANS) 2022 Conference in Washington, DC.
Congratulations to Marcus Henderson for successfully passing his PhD Comprehensive Exam with no revisions.
Dr. Michelle DeCoux Hampton co-authored recent Journal of Nursing Education article titled “Holistic Admissions Review Integration in Nursing Programs.” Read more (opens new window)
Season 2, episode 7 of “Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up!” is available at emfp.org/news/mental-health-trailblazers-podcast (opens new window).
On this week’s episode our host, Indrias Kassaye and MFP doctoral Fellow April Ames-Chase discuss the psychiatric mental health impact that serving in a war zone had on her and how she was able to overcome the PTSD that initially she didn’t even realize she was suffering from. Her own lived experiences have influenced her research interests which today focus on Black female Iraqi War veterans and their experiences adjusting to life back home in the United States.
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)
The following on-demand webinar may be of interest to you:
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