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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Buckeye nursing well-represented among award/grant recipients and featured presenters
The Ohio State University College of Nursing research community is well-represented at the 48th annual Midwest Nursing Research Society (MNRS) conference this week, with several faculty members and students recognized as award winners, grant recipients and featured presenters.
College ranks 6th among public institutions
For the first time in its history, The Ohio State University College of Nursing vaulted into the nation’s top 10 colleges of nursing in funding support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).