The pandemic and our understanding of the science of COVID-19 is fast-evolving, and evidence changes regularly. This flood of information and rapidly moving data can breed the viral spread of rumors. A global, instantaneous information ecosystem has created an environment in which truth and fiction can be hard to discern. Join us as we talk about the actions nurses can take to verify sources, practice #InfoHygiene, and be on the frontline of truth.

Presenter: Monica J. Hughes, MSN, RN, NE-BC, CNE

Monica Hughes earned her BSN from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, her MSN in Nursing Education from the University of Texas at El Paso, and is currently an Advanced Public Health Nursing  DNP student at Rush University in Chicago. Hughes is a board certified nurse executive and a certified nurse educator with many years in public health and nursing leadership. The former director of public health nursing for the Texas Department of State Health Services, she is now full-time faculty at St. David’s School of Nursing and serves as the director of education and community health for Faith Partnerships for Health. She also has experience in obstetrics and newborn nursing. She is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Public Health Nurse Leader and in 2019 was selected as the Outstanding Nurse Leader for the Johns Hopkins Dean’s Award. 

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