PhD-DNP Student
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Emerald Jenkins is a candidate for the inaugural class of the dual PhD-DNP in Nursing at Johns Hopkins University. As a caregiver, Emerald’s research focuses on meeting the needs of marginalized older adults with co-occurring dementias and physical disabilities, and their caregivers (CAPABLE-Family). Emerald is the first student from the School of Nursing to take a Computational Medicine course in the Biomedical Engineering program. She received a Bachelor of Science in Biology with a Minor in Genetics from North Carolina State University, Masters in Medical Science from Hampton University, and a Masters in Nursing from Johns Hopkins University. She hopes to utilize her education to transition her clinical practice from Psychiatric Nurse to an Adult/Geriatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner while building a long-term research/teaching trajectory. As President of the Black Student Nurses Association, Emerald created a Medical Terminology course for the Baltimore Mayor’s Office of Employment. Emerald has a productive student record: obtaining two predoctoral fellowships through the NIH, participating in a Diversity and Justice Working Group through the Gerontological Society of America, and serving as Limited Faculty. Emerald’s long-term goals are to: cultivate cultural humility and challenge power imbalances in healthcare education/research, improve pain recognition for persons with dementia, incorporate psychiatry in primary care, and build innovative human-centered care communities for elders. As former Nursing Advocacy Leader for Maryland, Emerald believes that increasing accessibility for students from all backgrounds in higher education, and increasing diversity in the nursing workforce will improve health trajectories for aging populations, globally.
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Saturday, November 5, 2022
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET
Saturday, November 5, 2022
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET
Saturday, November 5, 2022
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET