Michigan Minds Podcast: Nursing & Mental Health: Exploring the Ongoing Challenges of the Workforce

May 6, 2022
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Lauren Ghazal, PhD, joined Michigan Minds for the National Nurses Week Special Series. Ghazal is a postdoctoral research fellow at the U-M School of Nursing Center for Improving Patient and Population Health (CIPPH) and the Rogel Cancer Center. Her two main areas of research focus on how to improve the quality of life of adolescents and young adults diagnosed with cancer, and the nursing workforce where she’s been involved with projects that explore experiences of nurses working throughout the pandemic. As a nurse practitioner and current researcher, she provides insight on the challenges that nurses have been and are currently facing, and offers resources regarding mental health support for healthcare workers.