Ji Won Shin
Ji Won Shin, PhD, RN, has a passion for improving the health and well-being of critically ill patients and family caregivers. She is particularly interested in positive and negative psychological experiences during and after the intensive care unit stay, helping patients and families better cope with life challenges, and how we can prevent adverse psychological outcomes. Shin is currently funded by the ZOLL Foundation to investigate the trajectories of posttraumatic growth and examine its association with psychological outcomes in intensive care survivors and their family members using a dyadic framework. With this work, she strives to achieve a foundation for developing a dyad-focused intervention to improve psychological outcomes.
Shin started her career as a nurse in the medical intensive care unit and then worked as a nurse in the adult psychiatric inpatient unit. The integration of her clinical expertise in critical care and mental health nursing informed her passion for preventing trauma-related mental health problems and promoting the well-being of critically ill patients and their family caregivers. She comes to us from University of California-Davis, where she was a Heather M. Young Postdoctoral Fellow. Shin earned her PhD in Nursing from The Ohio State University and her Master and Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea.
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