List of works
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Interprofessional Collaborative Project for Online Nursing Students
Date presented 04/18/2024
Student Scholars Symposium and Faculty Research Showcase, 04/18/2024, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
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Physical activity and its effect on mental health in incarcerated individuals
Date presented 2022
Integration of Evidence in Professional Nursing Practice Research Presentations, 2022, School of Nursing, Usha Kundu College of Health, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
"Serious mental illnesses have became very prevalent in jails and prisons. About 20% of jail inmates and 15% of prison inmates are estimated to have a serious mental illness. It has been discovered that the mentally ill tend to remain in jail or prison longer than inmates with no serious mental illness. It has also been found that it costs more money to detain and house the mentally ill as they need psychiatric medications. The mentally ill in jails and prisons are more likely to commit suicide and develop behavioral problems due to being in isolation (Treatment Advocacy Center, 2016)."
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Equality in transgender healthcare
Date presented 2022
Integration of Evidence in Professional Nursing Practice Research Presentations, 2022, School of Nursing, Usha Kundu College of Health, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
Due to the rising number of discriminations and lack of access to equal and quality healthcare within the transgender community, it is crucial to become aware of the health disparities and assist in advancing healthcare to provide an emotionally safe environment for this community (Rivera, 2019).
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Postpartum women and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
Date presented 2022
Integration of Evidence in Professional Nursing Practice Research Presentations, 2022, School of Nursing, Usha Kundu College of Health, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
Postpartum depression (PPD) is a common disorder that happens after a woman has given girth. The ramifications of PPD can have short or long-term effects on the mother, child, and the family as a whole (Brown et al., 2021). Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) use in postpartum women has been controversial for many years due to the potential effects to the infant through lactation. There has been an increase of 2.3% of SSRI use in the postpartum phase in the last 20 years (Molenaar et al., 2019).
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Staffing-ratios and nursing burnout
Date presented 2022
Integration of Evidence in Professional Nursing Practice Research Presentations, 2022, School of Nursing, Usha Kundu College of Health, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
Mental health can affect many different aspects in the nursing profession. In this project, we are focusing on how staffing ratios, adequate and inadequate, affect occupational stress and burnout of nurses over time. These factors not only affect the mental health, but also the patient outcomes, patient safety, and number of errors made. It is identified that there is a significant relationship between insomnia, burnout and mental health among nurses (Cheng et al., 2020).
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Impact of therapeutic human touch on older adults
Date presented 2022
Integration of Evidence in Professional Nursing Practice Research Presentations, 2022, School of Nursing, Usha Kundu College of Health, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
The importance of this topic is to hope for better patient outcomes in the geriatric population. Human touch may be an effective way to provide comfort and care, with a deeper purpose/goal to older patients who may be struggling with mental health conditions. Older individuals that are struggling through illness or mental distress are in desperate need of human touch and how it is crucial it is in the role of caregiving (Pedrazza, 2018).
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Identifying suicide risk in adolescent patients
Date presented 2022
Integration of Evidence in Professional Nursing Practice Research Presentations, 2022, School of Nursing, Usha Kundu College of Health, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
Comparing screening tools to use in acute care setting that are effective at identifying suicide risk in adolescent patients.
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Pharmacological therapy versus cognitive processing therapy in treating veterans with PTSD
Date presented 2022
Integration of Evidence in Professional Nursing Practice Research Presentations, 2022, School of Nursing, Usha Kundu College of Health, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
Veterans often suffer from PTSD which can be treated both with pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment. Exploration has shown that CPT is preferred over pharmacological therapy, however it is suggested that combined therapy can be beneficial due to the complexity of PTSD. (Inoe et al., 2021)
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First generation Asian immigrants and mental health treatment
Date presented 2022
Integration of Evidence in Professional Nursing Practice Research Presentations, 2022, School of Nursing, Usha Kundu College of Health, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
Any first generation immigrant has a hard time assimilating to life in a new country, and this holds true for the Asian population and their mental health (Arora et al., 2020). This project focused on what impacts mental health of first generation Asian immigrants.