Each week a quote is shared for your consideration. Some quotes might offer comfort, hope, a challenge, a chuckle, or inspiration. You may or may not agree with the quote, but it is offered simply to help you reflect and ponder.
There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.
— John Green
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
One reason the push for diversity in medicine is lagging (opens new window)
Sabina Spigner says she's always known she wanted to be a doctor. But, as a premed student at the University of Pennsylvania, she found herself struggling to balance a heavy class load while also working as much as 20 hours a week. Read more (opens new window)
New rule waives copays at VA hospitals for Native American veterans (opens new window)
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced a rule change that will waive copays for Native American veterans. The rule change will ease the financial burden of health care for the nearly 4,000 Native American veterans in Montana. Read more (opens new window)
Black Americans, Low-Income Americans May Benefit Most from Stronger Air Pollution Policies (opens new window)
Stronger regulations lowering levels of fine particulate air pollutants (PM2.5) would benefit the health of all Americans, but Black Americans and low-income Americans would likely reap the most benefits, including a lower risk of premature death, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and the University of Colorado. Read more (opens new window)
Multiracial young adults at higher risk of mental illness compared to their monoracial counterparts, according to US university research (opens new window)
People from racial and ethnic minorities often struggle with mental distress for various reasons, such as inaccessibility of sufficient mental health care, cultural stigma regarding mental illness and racism (American Psychiatric Association, 2017). Research has shown significant differences in mental illness among ethnic groups; for instance, Irish and Pakistani men report higher levels of distress than their white British counterparts (Bignall et al., 2019). Read more (opens new window)
MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Congratulations to Dr. Agnes White on recently being honored as the Nu Zeta Zeta 2023 “Woman of the Year” during Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated Nu Zeta Zeta Chapter's "Racing For Education" event in Mobile, Al.
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Congratulations to Dr. Marife C. Aczon-Armstrong on her upcoming trip to Uganda as a Fulbright Scholar who will join students and faculty at Uganda Christian University in Mukono's Master of Nursing Science Program as a visiting professor this coming May 2023.
Congratulations to Dr. Bridgette M. Rice on being named Associate Dean for Research and Innovation at Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing. She is the Richard and Marianne Kreider Endowed Professor in Nursing for Vulnerable Populations - a role she will continue to hold - when she assumes her new position June 1.
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Season 3 drops next Monday, April 24! Click
here (opens new window) to listen to the trailer!
Mental Health Trailblazers – Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up! is the MFP/ANA podcast featuring the groundbreaking journeys of BIPOC psychiatric mental health nurses, in their quest to meet the urgent and unmet needs of under-represented communities in America. Our focus this season is nursing’s response to the deepening mental health crisis among adolescents and young adults from communities of color across America.
If you have ever considered earning a master’s or doctoral degree in psychiatric mental health nursing and identify as a member of an ethnic minority in the U.S., learn more about the MFP/ANA and apply today at
apply.emfp.org (opens new window). Applications close April 30, 2023.
We also invite you to join our last Office Hours where team members will be available to answer any questions you might have regarding the application. You can register to attend here (opens new window):
About MFP
Funding for the MFP e-Newsletter was made possible (in part) by Grant Number 1H79SM080386-05 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written training materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
