跑步照亮心理健康 | UPenn Nursing

Samantha Roecker 是佩雷尔曼高级医学中心耳鼻喉科诊所的一名临床护士，也是宾夕法尼亚大学护理学院家庭护士从业者项目的学生。她最近参加了波士顿马拉松比赛，这是她的第 12 场马拉松比赛，并打破了磨砂跑最快的世界纪录。

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Samantha Roecker, a Penn Medicine nurse and a student in Penn Nursing’s Family Nurse Practitioner Program, competed in the Boston Marathon. In the process, she raised more than $45,000 to help nurses struggling as a result of the pandemic, and she broke the world record for fastest marathon in scrubs.

Roecker has been running since the seventh grade, competing in high school and college, even qualifying for the Tokyo Olympic trials. But the Boston Marathon which she just completed—her 12th marathon since she ran her first in 2014—was like no other.

For one, Roecker competed in scrubs, aiming to set the world record for the fastest marathon in a nursing uniform. More important to Roecker, however, was her reason for running this particular race: to raise money in support of the mental health and well-being of nurses. In partnership with the American Nurses Foundation, she collected more than $45,000 so far.

“I have a lot of close friends who are health care workers who have suffered immensely during the pandemic,” says Roecker, who works as a clinic nurse in the otorhinolaryngology practice at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine.

One of Roecker’s close friends from high school, a physician assistant in New York City, began struggling with mental health challenges after working for months in what became in the epicenter of COVID-19 in the United States. “She just saw so much she didn’t expect to see in her life,” Roecker says. “I’ve been trying to help her, to support her. I wanted to come up with something that could make her smile.”

Roecker started poking around and saw, surprisingly to her, that someone held the world record for running a marathon in scrubs. She decided trying to break that might be a good way to give her friend a boost. Roecker also knew there were so many more health care workers who needed support, too. Wanting to do more, she started talking to everyone she could think of, including June Treston, DNP, CRNP, who directs Penn Nursing’s Family Nurse Practitioner Program Track.

“She told me about her plans for the marathon in January,” says Treston, who, in addition to teaching Roecker, supervises her in her clinical rotation in the Emergency Department at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey. “I love Sam’s story. She has such compassion for her friend, enough to identify her needs and to navigate the waters of getting her help, understanding that there are so many barriers. She really turned it around to help all nurses struggling across the country.”

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Samantha Roecker 是宾夕法尼亚大学医学院的一名护士，也是宾夕法尼亚大学护理学院家庭护士从业者项目的学生，她参加了波士顿马拉松比赛。在此过程中，她筹集了超过 45,000 美元来帮助因大流行而苦苦挣扎的护士，她还打破了穿运动服马拉松最快的世界纪录。

洛克从七年级开始就开始跑步，参加高中和大学比赛，甚至有资格参加东京奥运会选拔赛。但她刚刚完成的波士顿马拉松——这是她自 2014 年首次参加马拉松以来的第 12 场马拉松——与众不同。

一方面，Roecker 穿着工作服参加比赛，旨在创造穿着护士服跑马拉松最快的世界纪录。然而，对罗克来说，更重要的是她参加这场特殊比赛的原因：筹集资金以支持护士的心理健康和福祉。到目前为止 ，她与美国护士基金会合作，筹集了超过 45,000 美元。

“我有很多亲密的朋友都是医护人员，他们在大流行期间遭受了巨大的痛苦，”在佩雷尔曼高级医学中心担任耳鼻喉科诊所护士的罗克说。

Roecker 高中时的一位密友，纽约市的一名医师助理，在美国 COVID-19 的震中工作了几个月后，开始与心理健康挑战作斗争。“她只是看到了很多她没想到会在她的生活中看到的东西，”Roecker 说。“我一直在努力帮助她，支持她。我想想出一些能让她微笑的东西。”

Roecker 开始四处寻找，令她惊讶的是，有人保持着穿着工作服跑马拉松的世界纪录。她决定尝试打破这可能是给她朋友提振的好方法。Roecker 也知道还有更多的医护人员需要支持。为了做得更多，她开始与她能想到的每个人交谈，包括负责 Penn Nursing 家庭护士从业者计划跟踪的 June Treston、DNP、CRNP 。

“她告诉我她在一月份参加马拉松比赛的计划，”特雷斯顿说，除了教罗克外，她还在新泽西州卡姆登库珀大学医院急诊科监督她的临床轮换。“我喜欢山姆的故事。她对她的朋友如此同情，足以确定她的需求并在获得她的帮助的水域中航行，了解有如此多的障碍。她真的扭转了局面，帮助全国所有苦苦挣扎的护士。”