Healing Troubled Minds

In the most recent edition of Minority Nurse, Dr. Faye Gary discusses psychiatric-mental health nursing as a specialty in urgent need of more minority nurses from all racial and ethnic backgrounds.

"Poor mental health is the thief of all health," she says. "Without good mental health people can't function in their families, they can't function on the job as a valuable and productive employee, and they cannot contribute to their communities and neighborhoods. So they fail in three of the basic domains where it's important for people to be productive." Read more.

Reps from FPB's Newest South Korean Partner Pay a Visit

For two weeks in January and February, a professor and five elite undergraduate nursing students from Choonhae College of Health Sciences in Ulsan, South Korea have been undergoing an activity-laden, whirlwind tour of FPB, the surrounding campus of Case Western Reserve University, and some of the clinical sites around Cleveland where their FPB counterparts rack up their clinical hours.

"We've found FPB to be incredibly organized, precise, and well-connected," says Dr. Yong Hae Hong, who leads her students. "This is the sort of nursing professionalism that we would like our own students to model themselves after." Read more.

FPB Study to Help Patients on Ventilators Put Some Muscle into Recovery

Few people have thought about providing an exercise regimen in the intensive care unit, especially for patients on ventilators, but Dr. Chris Winkelman will be doing some bedside coaching to get patients stretching and flexing their muscles.

"No one likes to be sick and stay in bed," Winkelman says. "It feels good when you are healthy to exercise, and we think ICU patients can also benefit from exercising." Read more.

Special Workshop to Focus on Bringing People with Disabilities into Research Studies

Offered by the FIND Lab and sponsored by the SMART Center in collaboration with the Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center and the Cleveland Sight Center, this workshop offers insight on "Avoiding Unintended Bias: Approaches to Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Research." Read more.

CWRU Avatars to Help Patients Talk to Docs

Dr. John Clochesy's new Electronic Self-Management Resource Training to Reduce Health Disparities (eSMART-HD) project, which utilizes avatars to enable healthcare professionals and their patients communicate with each other in new ways, is featured in Crain's Cleveland Business. Read more.

UPDATE: Practice Makes Patients

Dr. Clochesy's eSMART-HD project gets featured in Kaye Spector's weekly "Vital Signs" column in The Plain Dealer.

Clochesy envisions a system where the user plays a patient who enters a virtual clinic and answers questions from the receptionist by either selecting answers or typing them in. Then the user does the same thing with a physician in a virtual exam room. Read more.

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