Episode Summary
Host Indrias Kassaye discusses the importance of having nursing educators that reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of nursing students and the wider community with Professor Griselle B. Estrada, MSN, RN, Clinical Assistant Professor at Baylor University’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing. Ms. Estrada is currently completing the dissertation phase of her PhD in Nursing at Duquesne University. Her research interests include culturally congruent, evidence-based interventions that promote mental wellbeing and suicide prevention in Puerto Rican communities.
Episode Notes
Looking for more on the overlap of psychiatric nursing and cultural diversity? You’re in the right place! In the fourth episode of the second season of “Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up,” our host, Indrias Kassaye, discusses the importance of having nursing educators that reflect the racial and ethnic diversity of nursing students and the wider community with Professor Griselle B. Estrada, MSN, RN, Clinical Assistant Professor at Baylor University’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing. Ms. Estrada is currently completing the dissertation phase of her PhD in Nursing at Duquesne University. Her research interests include culturally congruent, evidence-based interventions that promote mental wellbeing and suicide prevention in Puerto Rican communities.
Growing up, Ms. Estrada moved between Puerto Rico and various parts of the United States. Reconciling her experience bouncing between cultures and languages, despite being on American soil the whole time, led Ms. Estrada to start researching information about Hispanic and Latinx mental health. Professor Estrada explains that despite living in Miami with its large Hispanic community, it was a challenge finding culturally and linguistically appropriate care providers.
Ms. Estrada credits her best moments in nursing to her work with Latino and Hispanic students and being able to serve as a role model and encourage them to meet their objectives to go on to further in their education and careers. To learn more about Ms. Estrada’s work and research, visit https://www.baylor.edu/nursing/index.php?id=972293 (opens new window).