A hunch
03/27/24 • 17 min
Jyu-Lin Chen began her nursing career with a passion for working with children, which led her to a pediatric ICU. Her curiosity and commitment to evidence-based practice shifted her focus to researching obesity trends among Chinese American immigrant children. Despite initial skepticism, she pursued her inquiry based on clinical observations and a need for data. Her pioneering research earned her induction into Sigma's 2023 International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.
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Jyu-Lin Chen began her nursing career with a passion for working with children, which led her to a pediatric ICU. Her curiosity and commitment to evidence-based practice shifted her focus to researching obesity trends among Chinese American immigrant children. Despite initial skepticism, she pursued her inquiry based on clinical observations and a need for data. Her pioneering research earned her induction into Sigma's 2023 International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.
Connect with Sigma:
- Tweet us at @SigmaNursing
- Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn
- Share your A Nurse First story
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I really like working with people, especially the little people. So that's how I entered nursing. Then when I was working in a pediatric ICU for three, four years, I realized what I really want to do is research because there's so many unanswered questions. I would ask, why are we doing this? What evidence do we have to do this? Can we do something better? But when we do something better, is it really better? So that triggered me to get my PhD at University of Califor
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