Not Your Grandmother's Nursing Home: The Importance of Respect in Long-Term Care with Dr. Deborah Lee & Dr. Cathy Cooper
June 26, 2024
Dr. Deborah Lee & Dr. Cathy Cooper join host, Dr. Christy Hall, in Part One of a two-part conversation discussing a valuable and necessary research project with a focus on Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) in the state of Tennessee.
This episode dives into their motivation for a study on the necessity of CNAs, their infinite value to the healthcare system, and touches on everything from recruitment, acknowledgement that CNAs make up as much as 80-90% of direct care provision for long-term patients, the difficulties of their tasks, and more. The study reveals the physical and emotional challenges of CNAs but also their deep dedication to their patients.
Don't forget to tune in to next week's episode for Part Two of this interesting discussion
Deborah Lee, PhD, RN, NBC-HWC, is the NHC Chair of Excellence in Nursing at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). In April 2019, Dr. Lee founded, and directs, the Positive Aging Consortium at MTSU. Dr. Lee earned Associate and Bachelor’s degrees in nursing from Western Kentucky University. She has a Master of Nursing degree from Emory University, and a Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Cathy Cooper, Ed.D, RN, COI, CNE, is a Professor of Nursing at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN where she teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. Dr. Cooper's career in health care began as a nursing assistant working in a long-term care facility in her hometown while pursuing a BSN at Indiana State University. She has a Master’s degree in Nursing of Adults from IUPUI and a doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul MN.