Jin Jun
Jin Jun, PhD, RN, has a passion for promoting the health and well-being of the healthcare workforce, who are key stakeholders in improving the quality and safety of health care delivery. In her research, she explores work as a social determinant of health among direct care workers, registered nurses and other clinicians. Work is an important contributor to health and well-being yet is under-investigated as a social determinant of health. Jun uses quantitative and qualitative approaches to examine the mechanism and causal pathways in which work contributes and/or reduces health disparities. Her research also addresses occupational stress and clinicians’ well-being at the intersections of individual, community and system levels. As a faculty member in the College of Nursing, she teaches graduate-level pathophysiology and mentors students at all levels.
Jun started her career in trauma/intensive care unit, then practiced as a gerontological nurse practitioner in the U.S. and in India after completing her master’s degree. Her clinical experiences informed her program of research as she observed firsthand what people do for a living and how the work environment in which they function positively and negatively affected the health and well-being of workers. Jun earned her PhD from New York University and her Master and Bachelor of Science in Nursing degrees from University of Pennsylvania. She also completed a post-doctorate fellowship at University of Michigan School of Nursing and the Institute for Health Policy and Innovation as a National Clinician Scholar (formerly known as the Robert Wood Johnson Clinicians’ Program).
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New data finds stress, anxiety and depression spike for those feeling the weight of a “culture of achievement”
Is the status of “perfect parent” attainable?
Researchers leading a national dialogue about parental burnout from The Ohio State University College of Nursing and the university’s Office of the Chief Wellness Officer say “no,” and a new study finds that pressure to try to be “perfect” leads to unhealthy impacts on both parents and their children.
Groundbreaking study provides a promising solution for preventing a major complication of pregnancy
According to the World Health Organization, more than 15 million babies are born preterm every year. More than one million of those babies lose their lives. Methods to predict risk for and prevent preterm birth are few and far between.
