HIMSSCast: Health equity, caregiver diversity and COVID-19

HIMSSCast host Jonah Comstock welcomes Sheldon Fields, RN, PhD, a researcher, wellness policy analyst, educator and advocate. He serves as Affiliate Dean for Fairness and Inclusion at Penn Point out, First Vice President at the Countrywide Black Nurses Affiliation, and founder and CEO of his very own consulting organization, the SDF Group. On today’s episode, they talk about some of the present-day wellness equity challenges introduced on by the COVID-19 pandemic and how to battle them.

 

Speaking factors:

• Dr. Fields’ heritage as a nurse and educational.
• The mission of the Countrywide Black Nurses’ Affiliation,
• How caregiver illustration aligns with treatment equity.
• Evaluating the COVID-19 pandemic with the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
• How pandemics can illuminate wellness disparities.
• The heritage of clinical atrocities in the U.S., and its aftereffects.
• Is vaccine hesitancy as large an challenge as vaccine entry?
• How minority nursing associations can help broaden vaccine entry.
• Wellness equity outside of the pandemic – like clinical exploration.
• How the NIH’s All of Us initiative has continued throughout the pandemic.

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Nurses You Ought to Know

The Countrywide Black Nurses Affiliation

Dr. Fields’ PSU College Webpage

All of Us

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