Christine Langston BSN, RN is a third year PhD student and Hillman Scholar. Christine’s research focuses primarily on improving the standards of care for disadvantaged patients, promoting healthy living across the lifespan, and increasing the quality of life for patients with chronic diseases. She is specifically interested in nursing as an intervention for increasing health outcomes for patients of color, how the relationship between nurse work-environment impacts patient health outcomes, and how the Nurse Practitioner practice restrictions impact care in disadvantaged communities. Her current work focuses on how the quality of nursing care can affect the post surgical outcomes of Medicaid-insured patients with serious mental illness.