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Of the many traditional roles that nurses occupy, the role of nurse scientist represents one of the least understood and most critical scopes of nursing.

 

Once upon a time in the 1940s, nurse leaders from across the United States joined forces to address the need for federal support of nursing science. The Office of the Surgeon General supported the assembly of a Division of Nursing, which eventually led to the formation of a branch within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that was dedicated to nursing research.

 

The National Institute of Nursing Research(NINR) was born in the 1993 with the purpose to investigate ways to improve the health of individuals, families, and communities.

 

Today on HealthCetera Radio, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Kristi Westphaln clarifies the somewhat nebulous role of the nurse scientist. She interviews Dr. Marie Lobo, President of the Western Institute of Nursing (WIN).  Dr. Lobo talks about the nurse scientist and shares her vision of how nursing research will contribute to the future of health care.

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PNP Westphaln attended the 49th annual Communicating Nursing Research conference at Disneyland in California (Innovations in Engagement through Research, Practice, and Education), held by the Western Institute of Nursing (WIN). WIN consists of a diverse community of nurses who aspire to improve health outcomes through nursing education, practice, and science.

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Pain, redness, and swelling typically encompass the expected after-effect from an accidental injury. Might inflammation represent a grander health concern than just a local injury response?

 

A delve into the Merriam-Webster dictionary describes the process of inflammation as “a local response to cellular injury that is marked by capillary dilatation, leukocytic infiltration, redness, heat, and pain and that serves as a mechanism initiating the elimination of noxious agents and of damaged tissue.”

 

This complicated definition seems distant from the daily human experience, and prompted further investigation by Senior Fellow, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Kristi Westphaln. Ms. Westphaln continues her adventures at the 49th annual Western Institute of Nursing Conference as she interviews inflammation expert from the University of Arizona College of Nursing, Dr. Carrie Merkle. With a unique combination of undergraduate/graduate education in nursing and a PhD in Zoology, Dr. Merkle is gifted both in her research repertoire as well as in her ability to make the processes within advanced cell biology palatable and pertinent.

 

During her delivery of the esteemed Distinguished Researcher Lecture at WIN, Dr. Merkle explained how the complex mechanism of inflammation is so much more than a bump or bruise, and that it holds serious implications for many chronic health conditions.

 

Tune into HealthCetera Radio live on April 14, 2016 at 99.5FM or streamed at WBAI.org

or listen via free podcast on iTunes

to learn from an inflammation expert about how inflammation is linked to wound healing, heart health, cancer, diabetes, endometriosis, depression, and cognitive decline. Inflammation impacts our health, and the swell work of Dr. Carrie Merkle helps explain why.

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Rikers Island

Rikers Island

 

New York is one of only two states in this country that prosecutes and incarcerates 16 and 17 year old youth as adults, including being jailed on New York City’s Rikers Island.  Today, there are about 5,000  young people between the ages of 16-21 who are held on Rikers Island. With New York City’s history of police profiling of youth of color, they are almost all youth of color who come from poor and lower middle income families and may suffer from depression and other mental health conditions. They are disadvantaged before they enter and become more so as they await trial.

One ray of light in this system is the Friends of Island Academy. Island Academy is an alternative high school at Rikers Island.  Friends of Island Academy uses a model of youth advocacy to create a safe place where the  youth can find a community of peers and advocates who will support them and believe deeply in their potential as they rebuild their lives after jail.

Today on HealthCetera, producer and moderator Diana Mason talks with three people who know well the need for the work of Friends: Christine Pahigian, the Executive Director of Friends of Island Academy; Marc Washington, its Mentoring Program Coordinator who shares his own experience of being incarcerated on Rikers Island; and Zaron, a young man who was released from Rikers Island in July of 2014.

The stories of these two young men speak to the need to focus on support and advocacy for youth to prevent incarceration and certainly during and after they are incarcerated.

So tune in on Thursday, April 7, 2016, at 1:00 PM to WBAI, 99.5FM in New York City and streaming at www.wbai.org. Or you can listen to the interview anytime by clicking here:

HealthCetera is sponsored by the Center for Health, Media & Policy at Hunter College, City University of New York.

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