007. Interview with Senator Eduardo Bhatia, Minority Leader of the Puerto Rico Senate

02/26/19 • 17 min

While visiting San Juan, Puerto Rico, in January 2019, Nursing Economic$ Editor Dr. Donna Nickitas talked with Senator Eduardo Bhatia, the current Minority Leader of the Puerto Rico Senate. Their conversation focused on climate change and Hurricane Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico.
Having assumed office in 2017, Senator Eduardo Bhatia is the current Minority Leader of the Puerto Rico Senate and the former President of the Puerto Rico Senate. Senator Bhatia holds a degree in Government and Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he later was also a member of the Princeton University Democrats and the Princeton University Council. Senator Bhatia’s career in public policy is extensive, including in 2014 authoring the most comprehensive energy reform law in Puerto Rico’s history, as well as his roles as Chair of the Eastern Regional Conference of the United States Council of State Governments and President of the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators, as well as his membership with the Council of State Government, the National Association of Latino Elected Officials, and the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda.
Dr. Donna Nickitas is Dean and Professor for the Rutgers School of Nursing in Camden, NJ, and the Editor of Nursing Economic$.
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006. An Interview with Franklin A. Shaffer, President and CEO of CGFNS International

In this episode, Mr. Amil Kusain Perez Tan, an assistant director of nursing and doctoral student, talks with Dr. Franklin Shaffer, president and chief executive officer of CGFNS International, an immigration-neutral, nonprofit-organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which helps foreign-educated healthcare professionals live and work in their country of choice by assessing and validating their academic and professional credentials. Dr. Shaffer discusses his decision to pursue nursing as a career at a time when the nursing profession was predominantly a woman’s profession, and his ongoing work as a prominent nurse leader. He also provides insight surrounding the similarities and differences in the workplace between male and female nurses, as well as diversity among foreign nurses, stating he believes at the soul of every nurse, nurses are more similar than they are different.
Franklin A. Shaffer, EdD, RN, FAAN, is the President and Chief Executive Officer, CGFNS International, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned his doctorate in nursing administration and nursing education at Columbia University and has 50 years of progressive and varied nursing experience which includes administration, education, clinical and research. His recent work includes the National Nursing Assessment Service project which provides a leading-edge technology-based assessment system to evaluate the credentials of foreign-educated nurses seeking licensure across provinces in Canada. Dr. Shaffer is also a principle investigator for the International Labor Organization’s Decent Work Across Borders Initiative, focusing on comparative analyses of nursing education and migration issues involving Denmark, Finland, India, Norway and the Philippines.
CGFNS International is an immigration-neutral nonprofit-organization that helps foreign-educated healthcare professionals live and work in their country of choice by assessing and validating their academic and professional credentials. The group provides foreign students and healthcare professionals with a comprehensive assessment of their academic records to facilitate their successful admission to schools in the United States and other countries.
Mr. Amil Kusain Perez Tan, MSN, RN, is assistant director of nursing at the Riverside Premiere Rehabilitation and Healing Center in Manhattan, New York, and is a PhD nursing student at The Graduate Center City University of New York. Amil has an extensive clinical knowledge and nursing work experiences from the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, and Europe prior to coming to the United States. Amil’s research interests include long-term care, geriatrics, palliative care, and improving health systems. As a clinician, Amil’s mission is to provide patients with quality, compassionate, holistic and competent care. Amil loves to travel, and has visited 27 countries and speaks four languages.
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008. Interview with Dr. Jennifer Francis, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center

In this episode, Dr. Donna Nickitas, Editor of Nursing Economic$, talks with Dr. Jennifer Francis, a Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Research Center in Falmouth, MA, and an Affiliate with the Rutgers University Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences.
Dr. Francis is world-renowned for her research on Arctic climate change impacts and the resulting effect on weather in other regions of the world. Her research has focused specifically on the connection between the rapidly warming Arctic and a weakened jet stream. She is regularly quoted in major media outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post. She recently testified to the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on climate change and its connection to extreme weather. Dr. Francis received her PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington and her undergraduate degree from San Jose State.
Her article, "Clarity and Clouds: Progress in Understanding Arctic Influences on Mid-Latitude Weather," was published in the January/February 2019 issue of Nursing Economic$, as part of its special issue on "Climate Change & Health-Related Environmental Risk."
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Jennifer A. Francis, PhD, is a Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Research Center in Falmouth, MA, and an Affiliate with the Rutgers University Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences. Learn more about Dr. Francis and her research by visiting her website: https://www.jenniferafrancis.com/
Donna M. Nickitas, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, CNE, FAAN, is Dean and Professor, the Rutgers School of Nursing, Camden, NJ, and the Editor of Nursing Economic$.
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