3 results match your criteria: "UMass Chan Medical School Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing[Affiliation]"

Purpose: Children face weight-based stigma from their healthcare providers at a disconcerting rate, and efforts to mitigate this have been scant. This study aimed to quantify pediatric healthcare professionals' attitudes and beliefs about weight stigma and to determine stigma reduction interventions that are most supported by pediatric healthcare providers.

Design And Methods: Participants completed two validated instruments which measured implicit and explicit weight bias, respectively.

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Telehealth and Virtual Nursing: Solutions That Challenge the Status Quo.

AACN Adv Crit Care

December 2023

Teresa A. Rincon is Assistant Professor, UMass Chan Medical School Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing, 55 N Lake Ave, Worcester, MA 01655 and Senior Telehealth Consultant, Blue Cirrus Consulting, Greenville, South Carolina.

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Incorporating social justice learning into competency-based graduate nursing: A discussion of integrating pedagogies.

J Prof Nurs

November 2023

UMass Chan Medical School Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing, S1-853, UMass Chan Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue, North, Worcester, MA 01655, USA. Electronic address:

Background: The impact of social inequity on the collective health of a society is well documented and, despite decades of research, the problem persists on a global scale. Nurse practitioners are competent to treat the downstream health effects of social inequity, but nursing students may lack the structural awareness to accurately target primary prevention efforts.

Objective: The authors discuss faculty preparation and pedagogical considerations when incorporating social justice learning into a graduate and post-graduate psychiatric nurse practitioner course.

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