Keith Carter

11/26/21 • 34 min

Mental Health Trailblazers: Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up

Tune into the final portion of the first three-part conversation of “Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up,” where our host Indrias Kassaye will be connecting with three current MFP fellows to discuss the crucial role and representation of men in nursing.
Finally, within part three of this topic, Indrias is joined by Keith Carter, a third-year psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner as well as a doctor of nursing practice student at Rush University. His DNP scholarly clinical project is to implement a violence risk assessment tool on a community hospital psychiatric unit on Chicago’s South Side.
Join Keith and Indrias as they discuss strategies to increase the percentage of men in nursing, what's driving more young people from ethnic minority backgrounds into conditions of having mental health or behavioral health problems, and how to instill the importance of mental health and psychiatric services into at-risk communities.
Understand how factors such as the power and resiliency of patients, family, and therapy services come together to inspire nurses such as Keith to help continue on in their careers. Dive into how his engagement with the Minority Fellowship Program helped forge a road forward full of like-minded colleagues, unparalleled opportunities, and avenues to grow as a trained professional.
Don't miss tuning into this impactful conversation series featuring key perspectives and understandings on men in nursing and how to come together to grow this sector as a whole. To learn more about Keith Carter, visit https://emfp.org/mfp-fellows/doctoral/keith-carter

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Caesar Rangel

Continuing onward within the first three-part conversation of “Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up,” where our host Indrias Kassaye will be connecting with three current MFP fellows to discuss the crucial role and representation of men in nursing.

Featured within part two, is Caesar Rangel, who is currently working on his psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner degree. Mr. Rangel is committed to working with intergenerational and culturally diverse groups, and places a heavy significance with an emphasis on supporting individuals in underserved communities.
Caesar discusses pathways to correcting mis-representations, the benefits of being a male nurse, and specifically how being a male nurse in psychiatric mental health has impacted him on a deeper level.
Hear from Caesar as he communicates major challenges he experiences with his work as well as his efforts to overcome said challenges not just through personal local ties but with the help of Minority Fellowship Program mentors. As the conversation steers towards the arts and music in therapy, you’ll enjoy a peek into Caesar’s musical skills. and the importance of music in his personal as well as professional life.

Don't miss this impactful conversation series featuring key perspectives and understandings on men in nursing and how to come together to grow this sector as a whole. To learn more about Caesar Rangel, visit https://emfp.org/mfp-fellows/masters/caesar-rangel

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Dr. Cheedy Jaja

Join us for another episode of “Mental Health Trailblazers, Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up,” where our host Indrias Kassaye will be interviewing Dr. Cheedy Jaja, an Associate Professor of Nursing and the Assistant Dean of Global Engagement at the University of South Florida. His research interests focus primarily on sickle cell disease pain, analgesic, and psychopharmacogenetics.

Starting life as an air traffic controller and professor of philosophy, Dr. Jaja found a love of science via the Human Genome Project and has since combined his interests into a compelling career addressing psychosocial and mental health issues within international patient populations.

Alongside Indrias, Dr. Jaja covers several key topics including how sickle cell disease, both here in the United States and worldwide, is a poster child for health inequity, takeaways from time spent in his native Sierra Leone during the peak of the Ebola crisis, and how local traditions outside of Western modern medicine continue to play powerful roles in global communities when it comes to psychiatric and mental health.

If you want to learn how the Minority Fellowship Program provided vital support and resources in Dr. Jaja’s career, need advice on a nurse’s duty to care vs. duty to yourself, or just want to visualize the global impacts of psychosocial mental health issues across cultures, this episode is for you.

To learn more about Dr. Cheedy Jaja, visit https://emfp.org/mfp-fellows/masters/cheedy-jaja