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.
For it’s our grief that gives us our gratitude, Shows us how to find hope, if we ever lose it. So ensure that this ache wasn’t endured in vain: Do not ignore the pain. Give it purpose. Use it.
— Amanda Gorman
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
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline - 988 Partner Toolkit (opens new window)
SAMHSA, the primary federal agency leading efforts to advance the behavioural health of the nation, recognizes the need for states, territories, tribes, crisis centres, counties, communities, emergency service providers, and other partners to speak with one voice so that there is a clear understanding about what the 988 Lifeline is and how it works. We developed the 988 Partner Toolkit with resources for partners to use and share information about the 988 Lifeline with this alignment in mind. Learn more (opens new window)
988 Mental Health Lifeline Summit for Tribal Nations in Oklahoma (opens new window)
On November 14 and 15, Oklahoma Tribal Nations gathered for a two-day 988 Mental Health Lifeline Summit in Lawton, Oklahoma. The Wichita and Affiliated Tribes planned and coordinated the summit in partnership with additional 988 Mental Health Lifeline grantees across Oklahoma. Watch the archived livestream here (opens new window)
HIV/AIDS Awareness Resource (opens new window)
CDC offers many resources to help you learn about HIV. CDC fact sheets discuss how HIV affects specific subpopulations and provide information about topics such as risk behaviours and prevention tools. Reports and slides share the latest data and research. Read more (opens new window)
Mindfulness-based intervention shows promise for PTSD in cardiac arrest survivors (opens new window)
A novel pilot study incorporating mindfulness into exposure therapy shows promise for reducing symptoms of post-traumatic stress in cardiac arrest survivors. One in three survivors of cardiac arrest survivors develop PTSD, increasing their risk of mortality, yet no specific treatment has been developed for this population. Read more (opens new window)
On Health and Loneliness (opens new window)
This essay connects loneliness with health problems and argues that both are comorbid with authoritarian politics. Although an old idea from Plato and Aristotle, this problem takes an acute shape in the contemporary world, as argued by Hegel, Hannah Arendt, and Kate Manne, and has a gendered dimension, as men are lonelier than women. This article also attends, briefly, to empirical material about loneliness in the contemporary world. Read more (opens new window)
MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Congratulations, MFP doctoral Fellow Ashley Davis, on your first published manuscript! We are so proud of you and the important work you’re doing! Ashley's article is in the November issue of Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services.
Read now (opens new window)
Kudos to MFP Master's Alum Paul DeVeyra who performed to a Sold Out audience during Carnegie Halls 25th Anniversary!
Learn more about Paul DeVeyra
MFP/ANA alumnus Dr. Austin Nation, who has worked on HIV prevention for much of his career, was a recent guest on Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up! the MFP at the ANA’s podcast.
Earn Free Continuing Nursing Education credits as you listen to his insights on this subject, including observations on what it will take to achieve the goal set for 2030.
“One of the things that was troubling me with some of the young people that I was encountering is that in order for them to even get services as young people, LGBT people, if they were not HIV positive, they had even less access to resources and services. So in other words, what they were telling me is it made more sense to them to go out and get HIV infected so that they would then be able to get access to housing, case management and those additional services [that] as a young homeless queer person you wouldn't have access to without that HIV diagnosis.” - Dr. Austin Nation
Learn more about Dr. Nation
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It’s World AIDS Day, and the United States government’s theme for 2023 is “World AIDS Day 35: Remember and Commit.” The theme is an opportunity to reflect on the progress we have collectively made with partners and to commit to the actions needed to end HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Learn more (opens new window)
Upcoming Events:
In a 6-part online course, Dr. Broderick Sawyer, clinical psychologist and Liberation Psychology trainer, will teach students how to balance their desire for perfection using behavioural, attention, and compassion-based techniques. Each 60-minute class session, Dr. Sawyer will use a blend of instruction, discussion, and skill-building to help you understand, reflect on, and balance perfectionism.
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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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