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.
It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story.
— Native American Proverb
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
MENTAL HEALTH, SUBSTANCE USE, AND NURSING ARTICLES
CDC Launches Initiative to Tackle Burnout in Healthcare (opens new window)
The CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) on Tuesday launched the Impact Wellbeing campaign, a campaign to provide resources to hospital leaders to ease burnout, encourage help-seeking, and improve well-being among the healthcare workforce. Read more (opens new window)
A Practical Guide to Major Depression (opens new window) - Recognizing subtypes of major depression has critical treatment implications
Major depressive disorder (MDD), perhaps the most common form of depression (APA, 2013), has many subtypes, each with its unique characteristics and treatment needs. Some subtypes are associated with increased suicide risk. Others can indicate endocrinological complications and others harbingers of bipolar disorders. Read more (opens new window)
As Earth's temperature rises, so do deaths among people with mental health problems (opens new window)
As the climate crisis gets worse, we know of farmers whose crops are drying up and people who lose their homes due to rampant wildfires. But there's another group for whom the climate crisis is potentially lethal threat - people with mental health problems such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or anxiety. Read more (opens new window)
Making the invisible visible: The importance of applying a lens of Intersectionality for researching Internationally Educated Nurse (opens new window)
There is a worldwide shortage of 6 million registered nurses, exacerbated by their international migration from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) like the Philippines, India, Sub-Saharan African states, and the English-speaking Caribbean islands to high incomes countries (HICs) like the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom. Read more (opens new window)
MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Congratulations to MFP alumna Dr. Michelle DeCoux Hampton for being recognized for the Article of the year at the 2023 Organization for Associate Degree Nursing convention! "Impact of rubric weight on holistic admissions for underrepresented students in nursing".
Read more (opens new window)
“Does anybody know anything about taking care of American Indians?” – Margaret P. Moss PhD, JD, RN, FAAN.
As we continue marking Native American Heritage Month, this question posed by Native American nurse scientist/lawyer Dr. Moss resounds with urgency.
Nurses, through no fault of their own, don't know any of that. I mean, they just don't teach it. They don't teach these barriers, these structural and political barriers to health for American Indians. You don’t learn it in health professions, but also you didn't learn it K through 12… By design, American Indians were cut out of all... You don't see them on CNN. You don't see them in your books. You don't see them anywhere. And so then how can you possibly know how to take care of them?. View the complete talk by Dr. Moss (opens new window)
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HOTLINE RESOURCES
The National CLAS Standards
The National CLAS Standards are a set of 15 action steps intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities by providing a blueprint for individuals and health and health care organizations to implement culturally and linguistically appropriate services. View the standards here (opens new window)
About MFP
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