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Digital divide context ·                      What “dividing factors” might be impacting community members in your context? Who is impacted by digital inequity?  According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) (2026) more than 1,900,000 Oklahomans live in communities without enough mental health professionals , cost was the most prevailing factor for not receiving treatment, one in five Oklahomans experience a mental illness each year, and 195,000 adult Oklahomans have serious mental illness. According to Mack, Whetsell, & Graves (2022) rates of mental illness in rural areas are like the urban areas but suicide is nearly twice in rural communities. Barriers to mental health care in rural areas can be grouped into the following three groups: Availability: fewer providers to include psychiatrists , psychologists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and soci...

  Defining the Digital Divide Introduction: I am a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner getting ready for the Nurse Educator Certification board exam. A Nurse Practitioner is a registered nurse that provides direct patient care and prescribes medications for acute or chronic conditions (American Nurses Association, 2024). I am an independent contractor and do telehealth psychiatric consultations for rural hospitals in one of my jobs and do part time inpatient detox center coverage at my soon-to-end other job. In the future I would like to teach nursing students. Currently I consider myself an educator because I love to educate my patients about their medical and mental conditions. I like people to make educated decisions regarding their care. Community I work with: I am a psychiatric consultant for hospitalized patients in the rural hospitals of Anadarko, Fairfax, and Stroud Oklahoma. I help them go back to their community. These patients use the critical access hos...