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A Lakota NP's Journey to Empowering Indigenous Patients & Students ft. Whitney Fear, MSN, PMHNP-BC
A Lakota NP's Journey to Empowering Indigenous Patients & Students ft. Whitney Fear, MSN, PMHNP-BC
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Length:
72 minutes
Released:
Jan 24, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Adrianne is excited to welcome Whitney Fear, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who lives and works in Fargo, North Dakota. You may recognize her from Shift Nursing’s documentary Who Cares? A Nurse’s Fight for Equity, a powerful film that follows her as she works to provide care on the Pine Ridge reservation where she grew up. Pine Ridge is one of the poorest areas in the United States with some of the lowest life expectancy rates. Whitney is a woman of the Oglala Lakota Nation and works at a federally qualified health center that takes a holistic and trauma-informed approach to treating behavioral health and substance use disorders. She highlights that healthcare is far more than appointments, prescriptions, and forced compliance to care plans. Her methods are the focus of this conversation. Whitney and Adrianne discuss a range of topics in this hour including:Imposter syndrome and how it holds us back; her personal experiences and lessonsChallenges of being a 1st generation college student from a non-traditional backgroundWhy diversity among healthcare providers is so essential for providing quality careAdvice for creating safe spaces for conversation in the mental health care settingLGBTQ+ care, discrimination, colonialism, and their intersectionsWhat does and does not make an excellent provider in Whitney’s eyesDon’t miss out on this engaging, unrestricted conversation, and be sure not to miss the SHIFT nursing documentary which you can find at shiftnursing.com/whocares or on SHIFT’s YouTube channel where it has over 389K views here. Here’s the link if you need to cut and paste:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so1G2QuGsWQYou can also find Whitney on TikTok @hwa_mathoThank you to Whitney for taking the time to share such personal experiences and insights for the sake of others’ growth and education. She is one badass nurse.
Released:
Jan 24, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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