{"id":125982,"date":"2022-02-15T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=125982"},"modified":"2025-06-26T09:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:29:34","slug":"making-a-difference-in-the-next-generation-of-nurses-in-the-caribbean-and-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/making-a-difference-in-the-next-generation-of-nurses-in-the-caribbean-and-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a Difference in the Next Generation of Nurses in the Caribbean and Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nurses play an important role in public health, which is the basis for UCF Associate Professor Jascinth Lindo\u2019s research.<\/p>\n

Lindo grew up in Jamaica and says her interest in public health and personal experience growing up on the island fueled her desire to look at what works bests to help build the nursing capacity in the region.<\/p>\n

Nurses are key in helping the region best prepare for public health challenges. Epidemics of non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension, as well as communicable diseases, such as COVID-19, Chikungunya and Zika, face this region and its healthcare systems need strengthening. Being on the front line, nurses can help inform policy makers, and research provides good data for what works.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough research, nurses promote or advance evidence-based practice, build knowledge to enhance quality of care and patient safety, and create mentors for future generations of nurse scientists,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n