Carrie Ann Langley

Interests

Research

Transitions from jail for those who experience mental illnessMental health policy particularly supporting those who experience low socioeconomic status or who are justice involved, and/or living in rural communities.

Teaching

Drugs and Society Mental Health and Stigma Reduction Health PolicyInterprofessional CollaborationPractice-Theory-Policy Gap

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

• Langley, C. A., & McEwen, M. M. (2023).

  Transitions from jail to rural community for adults with mental illness

  . Journal of Public Health Nursing. doi:10.1111/phn.13174
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  Describe the facilitators and inhibitors of accessing healthcare services for adults with mental illness transitioning from a rural jail to a rural community.A qualitative descriptive approach was used to conduct this study in a rural southwest county. Purposive sampling was used to recruit eight adults. Data were collected using semi-structured telephonic interviews and analyzed using open coding and thematic analysis with clustering of emergent data.The overarching theme, "Out of Jail, but No Freedom," is supported by four domains: Situational Transition Facilitators; Situational Transition Inhibitors; Health-Illness Transition Facilitators; and Health-Illness Transition Inhibitors.Transitions from the rural jail to the community were facilitated by friends, family, and peer navigators. Systemic inequality endemic within the justice system and exacerbated by rurality creates an environment in which marginalization is ubiquitous for persons with mental illness and inhibits their transition from jail to the rural community. Nurses are well positioned to lead systematic reform in public policy, guiding healthcare funding, and jail utilization.
• Langley, C. A., & McEwen, M. M. (2023). Transitions from Jail to Rural Community for Adults with Mental Illness. Public Health Nursing, 4.
• Langley, C. A. (2022). Jail Transitions and Rural communities: Implications for Practice and Policy. Journal of Nurse Practitioners, 4.
• Littzen, C. O., Langley, C. A., & Grant, C. A. (2020). The Prismatic Midparadigm of Nursing. Nursing science quarterly, 33(1), 41-45.
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  The disciplinary perspective of nursing is guided in part by its metaparadigm, which includes the concepts of human beings, environment, health, and nursing. While relevant to the discipline as a whole, these abstract concepts are not meant for operationalization into the practice environment. The authors in this paper introduce a midparadigm of nursing-namely, the prismatic midparadigm-for applications in research, practice, policy, and education. It is a framework of concepts that are less abstract, but congruent with, the metaparadigm and more specific to the practice environment with the context of vulnerability as central.
• Grant, C. A., Langley, C. A., & Littzen, C. O. (2019). The Prismatic Midparadigm of Nursing. Nursing Science Quarterly, 33(1), 41-45. doi:10.1177/0894318419881806

Presentations

• Langley, C. A. (2024). Community Health Worker-Led Substance use Prevention Model. International Nurses Society on Addictions. Charleston, SC: INSA.
• Langley, C. A., & Sowicz, T. (2023, September). NIDA substance use prevention services in primary care challenge – Prize winning models webinar [Webinar]. Webinar. Web: National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Poster Presentations

• Langley, C. A. (2024). Jail-to-Community: Enhancing Collaboration between Probation and Mental Health. Western Institute of Nursing Research Exchange. Salt Lake: WIN.