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.
Trying to be a perfectionist brings increased stress and hinders performance.
— T. Whitmore
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
Ways to Strengthen Treatment for Substance Use Disorder (opens new window)
Integrating mental health, education in schools, and family involvement are a start, says expert.What I think we're really seeing is that addiction across the globe is on the rise. Within the last year, 15% of people reported having a substance use disorder or substance misuse, and about 94% of those people did not receive any treatment for it. Read more (opens new window)
New study maps ketamine's effects on Brain (opens new window)
In a new study published in the journal Cell Reports, Columbia biologists and biomedical engineers mapped ketamine's effects on the brains of mice, and found that repeated use over extended periods of time leads to widespread structural changes in the brain's dopamine system. Read more (opens new window)
Report Provides Frank Data on Black PhD Holders in STEM Fields (opens new window)
Over the past year, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and RTI International have engaged in a study of Black and Hispanic individuals who have achieved PhD degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Only 3.8% of people who earned these doctoral degrees from 2010–20 were Black Americans. The debt load of those who did is disproportionately high. Read more (opens new window)
What to know about severe Bipolar Disorder (opens new window)
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a mental health condition that can lead to substantial shifts in an individual’s mood, energy, and concentration levels. A person with BD may experience shifts between manic episodes, during which they feel “high” and energized, and depressive episodes of feeling sad, hopeless, and worthless. These shifts can make it difficult for a person to carry out everyday tasks. Read more (opens new window)
MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
The Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association is seeking mentors for emerging psychiatric mental health nurses dedicated to addressing disparities and inequities in substance use disorder and mental healthcare workforce.
Email us at mfp@ana.org using “I Want to Become a Mentor” in your subject line, and thank you for your interest!
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
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.
Jan 17, 2024 | 7:00 pm/ET
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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
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.
