Jin Jun
Dr. Jin Jun 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. Dr. 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.
Dr. 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. Dr. 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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The new LPN to BSN program at the College of Nursing was designed for LPNs to obtain their BSN. Three current students, James Williams, Toni Hall and Colleen M. Barrett, shared with us about their experiences in the program.
As wounded victims came pouring into the civilian hospital in Kharkov after the Ukraine war began in February 2022, Artem Riga initially was the only surgeon on duty. Some colleagues were fleeing the country and others were delayed because of the intense shelling. Doctors had to ration food and medical supplies, performing surgery in body armor, with sandbags on the windowsills of the operating room. A sudden attack significantly damaged his hospital and left patients covered in broken glass and other debris. Amid this chaos, Riga had to teach patients to care for their own wounds.
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