EP22: 2020: Year of the Nurse an Interview With Ashley Darcy-Mahoney

<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">2020: Year of the Nurse - An Interview with Ashley Darcy-Mahoney</span></em></p> <p><strong><em>“Most people think of nurses only doing bedside care in hospitals. They're in long term care, school health, home care, the policy arena, and many more places.”</em></strong><strong>— Melissa Batchelor, PhD, RN, FNP, FAAN (20:58-21:10)</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nurses play a very significant role, both locally and globally. Most people still think of nurses only doing bedside care in hospitals, but nurses are in-home health care, school health care, the policy arena, and many other places. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this week’s episode:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">You’ll discover the broad range of responsibilities that nurses have. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How their highly-specialized profession continues to evolve to address the needs of society.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Part One of ‘2020: Year of the Nurse - An Interview with Ashley Darcy-Mahoney’</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ashley Darcy-Mahoney, PhD, NNP, FAAN, a neonatal nurse practitioner and researcher, has worked throughout her career to advance nursing research, education, and practice, focusing on neonatology, infant health, and developmental pediatrics. Her research has led to the creation of programs that improve health and developmental outcomes for at-risk and preterm infants.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As an Associate Professor of nursing and the Director of Infant Research at George Washington University’s Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute, Dr. Darcy-Mahoney advances the body of research in infant health and developmental outcomes in high-risk infants with a focus on understanding the early brain and development trajectories in this population. In addition to her work with the institute, she conducts inte