Rutgers–Camden nursing professor aims to better support and strengthen the nursing workforce
Rutgers–Camden nursing professor aims to better support and strengthen the nursing workforce
In an effort to further its mission, the Walter Rand Institute’s Faculty Fellow program encourages faculty research on Southern New Jersey and issues of importance to the region. Faculty Fellow research is intended to promote regional discussion, so ideal research projects will advance knowledge on topics of concern to South Jersey residents. The sudden and unexpected death of a young person by suicide creates a bleak landscape where it can feel impossible to make sense of the senseless. The April 2022 death of Hillary F. Herskowitz, 25, an alumna of Rutgers University School of Nursing in New Brunswick, remains difficult to understand for her family, friends, and colleagues. However, her passing is helping inspire research into potentially life-saving educational and organizational changes that may ensure increased self-care support is available for health professionals.
Catherine A. Stubin PhD, RN, CNE, CCRN is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University School of Nursing-Camden and has been an undergraduate nurse educator for over 20 years. Dr. Stubin has been the recipient of several internal and external small grants focusing on nursing mental health, including awards from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, the National League for Nursing (NLN) and the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS). Dr. Stubin has disseminated her nursing mental health research at numerous national and international peer-reviewed, professional nursing conferences and by published, peer-reviewed articles. The recipient of a $5,000 faculty fellowship from the Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs (WRI), a research center based at Rutgers–Camden, Stubin is using the funds to gather insights into burnout and the prevention of burnout-related physical and mental illnesses.
Stubin's WRI research fellowship project amplifies the need to support the nursing workforce through The Hillary Project.
