Innovation Podcast

One of the biggest barriers standing between millions of Americans and programs assisting with food, utilities, and healthcare is—wait for it—enrollment paperwork. It’s not so much the lack of programs or awareness of them, it's the capacity across many touchpoints in the health and human services ecosystem to support navigating the paperwork and enrollment process. In fact, in 2024, 5 million children lost their Medicaid coverage due to paperwork or procedural reasons.

In this episode, part of our AI in Play series, emergency care nurse, health innovator, and entrepreneur Kwamane Liddell, JD, MHA, BSN, shares how AI is helping remove the paperwork roadblocks such as internet access, low literacy, and stigma standing between families and resources, and between care providers and the people they care for. At ThriveLink, multi-lingual, Agentic AI-powered chatbots are available to anyone via a quick, free phone call. These telephonic enrollment agents walk people through complex forms out loud, turning confusing text into a simple conversation. This technology-based solution connects a world of existing resources, from food delivery to utility payment assistance to reduced-priced medications for millions of families, to delivering a billion dollars’ worth of social resources.

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Remember those clunky voice assistants from the early days of the internet? Well, the AI technology behind them has evolved dramatically and thanks to the power of Generative AI, we're now talking to a new breed of conversational digital agents. These advanced AI agents can hold meaningful conversations with patients, offering multilingual support and knowledgeable guidance on a range of health issues. With these new capabilities, there is growing interest -- even excitement -- in Generative AI's potential to improve access to care, address workforce shortages, and enable clinicians to reach people and communities and connect them to care and resources in ways we haven't thought possible.

In this episode of our AI in Play series, we dive into the world of Generative AI agents with human experts Amy McCarthy, Chief Nursing Officer and Scott Collado, Senior Product Designer at Hippocratic AI, and Adam Updegraff DNP, CRNP, Senior Director at WellSpan Health to learn how they're built and trained, who's on the team building and rigorously testing them, and the real-world impact they're having on patients, communities, and clinicians. Tune in to hear how the future of healthcare is about teamwork between humans and technology, working together to deliver safer, smarter, and more accessible care for all.

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AI is everywhere! From delivering the tacos you crave to the car you drive to the clinical trial you might need -- it's reshaping our world and our work. AI-based technologies are helping solve complex problems in nearly every discipline, industry, and human endeavor. And in healthcare, artificial intelligence is a game-changer.

AI-based technologies do many things faster and better than humans can alone, with the promise of so much more ahead. And with that, comes a lot of questions, possibilities and well-founded concerns.

In this first episode – of many to come exploring AI’s role in transforming healthcare – we’re starting with the basics and the big picture:

• What is artificial intelligence?
• How can we ensure AI is safe, equitable, and beneficial for all?
• How should healthcare professionals think about and integrate AI into clinical settings?

We reached out to veteran researcher and leading expert in computer science, machine learning, and AI, Peter Stone PhD, and nurse attorney and bioethicist Liz Stokes JD, MA, RN to explore these questions and dive into ANA’s position statement ‘The Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence in Nursing Practice,’ as well as McKinsey & Company’s report ‘The pulse of nurses’ perspectives on AI in healthcare delivery.’ Together, they explore the transformative potential of AI in healthcare and how to ensure it serves everyone safely and equitably.

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Indigenous nurses bring more than clinical expertise to their practice—they bring a legacy of resilience, cultural knowledge, and a commitment to holistic care that honors their ancestors, culture, and history. For Native and Indigenous nurses, advancing practice means blending tradition and cultural humility with innovation to meet the unique needs of their communities, build trust, and transform health outcomes.

In this episode, we learn from Chippewa Indian Nurse researcher and educator Misty Wilkie PhD, RN, FAAN an Indigenous nurse director of the Doctoral Education Pathway for American Indian/Alaska Native Nurses at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, to explore how the Center for Indigenous People, Health & Nursing is devoted to improving the health and well-being of Indigenous people and communities works toward reconciliation. Aiming to eliminate health disparities by building trusting relationships with Tribal Nations, developing evidence-based practices, and preparing doctorally trained Indigenous healthcare leaders, Misty Wilkie emphasizes the power of honoring tradition, language, and strengths to shape more inclusive, equitable healthcare systems.

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The Commonwealth Fund's 2024 report found that Americans face greater barriers to accessing and affording healthcare than their peers in other nations. Now, nurses are overcoming those barriers through a new, growing medium: podcasting. In our Power of Podcast series, we explore how nurses are taking their expertise to the airwaves to share evidence-based care solutions, offering patients and the public vital, practical, and trusted information while also providing healthcare colleagues tools to improve education and care delivery. Through podcasting, nurses are bridging gaps in education, care availability, and professional development, fostering better health outcomes and stronger communities.

In the third episode of our three-part series, geriatric nurse practitioner Melissa Batchelor, PhD, RN, FNP, FGSA, guides us in exploring aging, Alzheimer's disease, and moving towards an age-friendly world. By 2030 there will be more older adults than children on the planet for the first time in human history. Through her podcast This is Getting Old: Moving Towards an Age-Friendly World, she is building a global community of caregivers and covering a wide range of age-related topics from navigating healthcare, understanding technology, and evaluating social services and policy to the very practical matters of caregiving and managing dementia. Through interviews with experts, professionals, and individuals with personal experiences, we gain insights into the current state of aging and explore potential solutions so that we can all age well.

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The Commonwealth Fund's 2024 report found that Americans face greater barriers to accessing and affording healthcare than their peers in other nations. Now, nurses are overcoming those barriers through a new, growing medium: podcasting. In our Power of Podcast series, we explore how nurses are taking their expertise to the airwaves to share evidence-based care solutions, offering patients and the public vital, practical, and trusted information while also providing healthcare colleagues tools to improve education and care delivery. Through podcasting, nurses are bridging gaps in education, care availability, and professional development, fostering better health outcomes and stronger communities.

In the second episode of our three-part series, critical care nurse practitioner Kali Dayton, DNP, AGACNP, shares how her podcast Walking Home from the ICU is mission-critical to improving ICU care and preventing the physical and cognitive impacts of long-term sedation and immobility by following the ABCDEF Bundle and keeping ICU patients awake, communicative, mobile, and autonomous and their families engaged and participating in care. Walking Home from the ICU dives into research from experts, survivors' experiences, and critical care teams' evidence-based practices to ensure that research is accessible, applicable, and practical for ICU clinicians so patients can indeed walk home from the ICU and return fully to their lives! 

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A new annual report from the Commonwealth Fund describes how Americans face greater barriers to accessing and affording healthcare than their counterparts in peer nations. Now, nurses are addressing these ongoing disparities through a new, growing medium: podcasting. In a new series for SEE YOU NOW, we explore how nurses are taking their expertise to the airwaves to share evidence-based care solutions, offering patients and the public vital, practical, and trusted information while also providing their healthcare colleagues with tools to improve education and care delivery. Through podcasting, nurses are bridging gaps in education, care availability, and professional development, fostering better health outcomes and stronger communities.

In this episode, we meet stroke nurse navigator and podcast creator and host Rosa Hart, BSN, RN, SCRN, who witnessed patients and families struggle to grasp complex post-stroke guidance as they were being discharged. In the Stronger After Stroke podcast, she brings together stroke survivors and healthcare specialists and dives into common questions, hard-to-discuss topics, and everything in between. Tune in to learn how Stronger After Stroke helps patients, people, and professionals far outside of her local community feel supported and informed on their recovery journey. 

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This Hispanic Heritage Month, we're amplifying the voices of Hispanic nurses who are transforming healthcare through research, advocacy, and unwavering dedication to their communities. In this special sampler episode, hear from nurse scientist Roxana Chicas, PhD, RN, FAAN whose groundbreaking work on heat-related illness among agricultural workers is protecting vulnerable populations and influencing policy change, and nurse Vincent Guilamo-Ramos PhD, MPH, LCSW, RN, executive director of The Institute for Policy Solutions at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, a new institute working to redesign US healthcare systems and shift policy and practice to more preventive, value-based and whole-person care. Listen and learn how their cultural heritage and lived experiences shape their approach to care and inspire them to fight for health equity.

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Around the world, millions of children undergo surgeries requiring general anesthesia; and along with it, the universal and understandable experience of – anxiety. A peak moment of anxiety and stress often occurs during anesthesia induction when a mask needs to be placed on a child’s face. It’s a stressful experience for kids, parents, and staff and studies have shown that high anxiety before surgery is associated with poorer outcomes after surgery.

In this moment of awareness episode, nurse practitioner, researcher, and intrapreneur Abby Hess, APRN, DNP shares her experiences witnessing countless children in distress during the pre-surgery process; her clever and Mary Poppins-level of creativity to rethinking the mask as part of a game; and the collaborators and mentors she learned from and turned to sustain her commitment to inventing a game that shifts the focus from something scary to something calming and fun and improves the entirety of surgical experience and outcomes.

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History and experience show that nurses raising their voices shape health policy. From advancing the profession to advocating for patients, nurses are well-positioned to articulate and champion the changes and legislation needed for better health, care, and access. That's the idea behind the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) annual ‘Hill Day,’ which focuses on advocating in the United States Congress for the more than 5 million nurses across the U.S. and the people and communities they care for. In this episode, we’re on the ground in Washington, DC meeting with nurses who are showing up and speaking up at ANA Hill Day 2024, and exploring engagement and advocacy – at the local, state and national levels – in the nursing profession. Tune in to hear from ANA President Jennifer Mensik Kennedy PhD, RN, NEA-BC, and ANA VP for Policy and Government Affairs Tim Nanof what advocating for families, communities and the workforce sounds like and why more than 500 nurses came to the U.S. Capitol to do so.

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Voting and health. It's a pairing with a growing body of evidence (and even its very own Index!) supporting the links between this powerful duo and how they impact and amplify one another and dramatically shape the health of individuals, communities and democracies. From green spaces to clean air, policy decisions impact our health and wellbeing just as much – and often more – than any individual health decision we make. When communities vote, they impact those policies. Research indicates that voting may actually help us feel better and more connected to our communities. In this episode we take a closer look at civic health and learn from nurses Jeanne Ayers RN, MPH, Lisa Schavrien RN, BSN and Erin Ainslie Smith MS, BSN, CPST how healthcare professionals and systems are making and achieving civic engagement a national and local health goal; and the creative and innovative approaches to removing barriers to voting that improve the health and wellbeing of patients, colleagues, communities -- and democracy itself.

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It's been a hot 12 months – according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, June 2024 was the thirteenth consecutive month of record-breaking global temperatures. The Centers for Disease Control estimates approximately 1,200 people in the United States are killed by extreme heat each year, and that number is expected to rise as hotter temps increase the incidences of heat stroke and dehydration, especially among vulnerable populations such as children, unhoused individuals, and the elderly. There is no doubt that climate change and extreme heat represent a substantial public health threat - one that nurses are poised to address as leaders in community health. In this episode, we feature a sampler and playlist of how nurses are at the forefront of addressing and responding to the health and economic impacts of extreme heat and weather-related events. 

Featured episides:

104: Practicing Green Health
89: Taking Care: Nursing’s Power to Change Our World
51: The Planet is Our Patient
90: Mobile Medical and Mental Health Team
57: Safety First
42: Disaster Ready
88: Planetary Health Healers

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In our ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, access to quality, expert care remains a significant challenge, particularly for historically marginalized communities who have well-documented health disparities. As the conversation surrounding gender-affirming care grows, an unfortunate truth remains: LGBTQIA+ individuals face significant barriers when accessing care and navigating healthcare systems that are not designed or equipped – and sometimes outright refuse – to support them remains a significant challenge.

In this episode, mission-driven nurses Teddy Tinnell MSN, RN (he/him) and Kate Steinle MSN, NP (she/hers) share how FOLX HEALTH, the largest LGBTQIA+-centric health and wellness platform, is leveraging technology to break down barriers that affect access to care. We discuss what it takes to continually redesign and rebuild a respectful, expert, scalable, transformed telehealth delivery platform and model centered on the needs, locations, and health disparities of the LGTBQIA+ community and how doing so improves and expands access and exceptional care for all.

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In this special edition of SEE YOU NOW, we’re celebrating Juneteenth! As a podcast focused on how nurse-led innovation strengthens our healthcare systems and transforms lives, we're marking Juneteenth with a playlist and sampler episode amplifying the significant healthcare contributions of Black nurses who are at the forefront of healthcare transformation, driving progress, and building healthier communities, families, and experiences through their scholarship, innovation, and leadership. We invite you to listen, learn from, follow, engage with, elevate, and cite the courageous and groundbreaking work of Black nurses who are improving health and care for all. 

Celebrating Juneteenth with SEE YOU NOW:

A playlist featuring and elevating nurses who are transforming communities through care:

31: Black Midwives & Mamas Matter
32: Bridges To Fatherhood
38: Mentoring for a More Equitable Future
39: Real World Data. Real Life Results
40: Counting on Faith
44: Way More Than a Health Plan
47: A Vote For Mom’s Health
53: Honoring Juneteenth
67: Nurses You Should Know
68: Frontline Forces: Vaccine Celebrity
87: Tackling Black Men’s Health
93: Double Disparities in Cancer
100: The Untold Story of the Black Angels
101: Calling all Game Changers and Trailblazers

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Despite broad awareness and agreement on the need for massive and urgent investment in nursing to transform our complex health and care systems, the American Nurses Foundation’s Philanthropic Support for the Nursing Profession report revealed that nursing receives just one penny of every healthcare philanthropy dollar. In this third and final episode in our series of rare, in-depth unscripted conversations with philanthropists, fundraisers, program managers, executive directors, grantees, and innovators we explore the creative, strategic, and evidence-based approaches to investing and fostering nurses as drivers of transformative, systemic change in health systems.

In conversations with Marion Leary, PhD, MPH, RN, Director of Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing, Howard Reid, Johnson & Johnson Global Head of Global Health Equity, and Ahrin Mishan Executive Director of The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation, we hear the connection between nurses as catalysts in care delivery transformation and investments in leadership programming and the concern that without addressing the current and significant workplace stresses, the attrition of well trained, skilled nurses from the profession will continue.

Through strategic, targeted, and enduring investments that evolve alongside changing workforce needs, programs like the Hillman Foundation’s nurse innovation grants, Design Thinking for Health, Johnson & Johnson’s Nursing Innovation Fellowship, and NurseHack4Health demonstrate their powerful impact on career growth, longevity, and preparing nurses in taking on leadership roles within their institutions, in the broader health care sector, and at all levels of public policy. These thought leaders encourage more funders to look at nursing as an investment in accelerating the improvement of our healthcare systems and make clear that nurses are best positioned to identify, implement, and disseminate innovative strategies to advance health care access, quality and equity.

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In 2023, in a first-of-its-kind, The American Nurses Foundation's Philanthropic Support for the Nursing Profession report revealed that nursing receives just one penny of every healthcare philanthropy dollar despite broad awareness and agreement of the need for massive and urgent investment in nursing to transform our complex health care systems and care delivery.

In this second episode in our series of rare, in-depth unscripted conversations with philanthropists, fundraisers, program managers, executive directors, grantees, and innovators we explore the individual nurse's journey and the creative and strategic ways foundations are investing and partnering to engage students as early as middle school to spark interest in healthcare careers, deliver education through the lens of health and education equity, and build the diverse workforce needed to meet current shortages and growing demand.

Listen in for conversations with Pamela McCue PhD, RN, CEO of NursesMC, Jenny Kane of Bloomberg Philanthropies, Elisabeth DeLuca and Kevin Byrne of the Elisabeth C. DeLuca Foundation as we dive deep into the details of a Nurses's Journey, transformative, recording breaking gifts, Bloomberg Philanthropies $250 million Career and Technical Education Healthcare Initiative, and the groundbreaking NursesMC model for building a representative nursing workforce centered on the social determinants of health, education, and employment.

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In 2023, in a first-of-its-kind, The American Nurses Foundation’s Philanthropic Support for the Nursing Profession report revealed that nursing receives just one penny of every healthcare philanthropy dollar despite broad awareness and agreement of the need for massive and urgent investment in nurses and nursing to transform our complex health care systems and care delivery.

In this series of rare, in-depth unscripted conversations with philanthropists, fundraisers, program managers, executive directors, grantees, and innovators we explore the creative, strategic, and evidence-based approaches to these investments; learn why, how, and who is investing in nurses and nursing; and why it’s so urgent.

In this episode, we explore with Kate Judge from the American Nurses Foundation the key findings from ANF report, learn where investments in nursing are currently being made and where resources need to be directed -- leadership, workforce development, and new models of care. We learn from seasoned philanthropist Victoria Simms, PhD, Simms/Mann Family Foundation Executive Director Rachel Barchie, and nurse executive Karen Grimley how they are putting the ANF report into action with their transformative gifts to health systems, strategic partnerships, and Off the Chart: Rewarding Nursing Greatness campaign.

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Our kids are not okay. Social isolation, technology use, and mental health conditions like anxiety and depression are all spiking for children and teens. The US Surgeon General’s Advisory on Protecting Youth Mental Health conveys, “the challenges today’s generation of young people face are unprecedented and uniquely hard to navigate. And the effect these challenges have had on their mental health is devastating” and has had an outsized impact on youth in foster care. In the U.S. nearly half a million children are in foster care every year, many of whom experience trauma, instability, separation, loss, and neglect. As Foster Care Awareness and Mental Health Awareness both fall in May we’re amplifying their messages and learning how foster care and mental health are powerfully connected through the “Foster Care to PhD” lived and professional experiences of nurse practitioner and foster care survivor Sharrica Miller, PhD, RN.

In this episode, Sharrica offers an unvarnished account of the foster care experience; discusses how nurses can use their advocacy and clinical skills to collaborate with social services to protect and provide stability for children in foster care; and shares her research, mentoring, and advocacy for legislative and policy changes to improve the child welfare system, ensuring their health and well-being as they transition out of foster care.

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Resources:

• National Foster Care Month | Child Welfare Information Gateway
• Mental Health Awareness Month 2024 - National Council
• Getting to the bottom of the teen mental health crisis
• How many kids are in foster care in the US?
• Verses: Lessons Learned From Foster Care
• The Power of One Caring Adult
• Trauma of Separation for a Child
• Mental and Behavioral Health Needs of Children in Foster Care
• Youth Mental Health — Current Priorities of the U.S. Surgeon General
• CDC: Report shows concerning increases in sadness and exposure to violence among teen girls and LGBQ+ youth
• ‘A cry for help’: CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health
• Foster Youth Resources - Guardian Scholars Program | CSUF
• Kids in the Spotlight: Empowering Foster Youth through Filmmaking
• Global minimum estimates of children affected by COVID-19-associated orphanhood and deaths of caregivers: a modelling study - The Lancet
• The Number of Children Orphaned by COVID Keeps Rising | Scientific American
• From Foster Child to DEI Consultant, Professor, and Mentor: Meet Dr. Sharrica Miller - Minority Nurse
• Transition Readiness, Perceived Health, and Health Services Utilization in Transitional Age Foster Youth Compared to Controls
• Film: Still Waters Never Crash
• A Place Called Home: Memoir by David Ambroz | Davidambroz
• The Science of Resilience
• The Science of Resilience | Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Defining Moments: Finding Peace After Foster Care

Imagine – healthy people living in equitable and resilient communities on a thriving planet! That’s the vision of Practice Greenhealth, a sustainability network delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,700 hospitals and health systems in the US and Canada. Healthcare sustainability is important work – if the healthcare sector were a country, it would be the fifth largest carbon emitter on the planet. The impact of environmental factors on human health is apparent now more than ever. The World Health Organization estimates that improved environmental conditions could prevent nearly a quarter of global diseases, citing climate change as a global public health threat. Healthcare leaders are recognizing the operational, strategic, financial and health equity importance of sustainability and resilience practices and taking impressive action in reducing their organization’s environmental footprint, waste, greenhouse gas emissions, and more.

In this episode, we learn from clinical experts and sustainability champions Shanda Demorest DNP, RN, PHN, Jonathan Perlin MD, PhD, Jessica Wolff MBA, MSN, Emma Pascale Blakey PhD, RN, and Beth Schenk PhD, MHI, RN-BC how healthcare as a sector is leaning into the generational demand and momentum for environmental stewardship in healthcare and about the vast array of tools, resources, and examples of practicing green health sustainably.

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Women's History Month celebrates women's achievements, acknowledging notable women in history and the important role they've played across societies, industries, and culture. There is perhaps no greater source of women's history-making and contributions to society, science, and social systems than healthcare and the nursing profession with its historically high representation of women among its ranks. In 2024 Women’s History Month focuses on those women who have and continue to advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion, and SEE YOU NOW is filled with stories of women making an impact across these dimensions.

In this episode, the SEE YOU NOW team digs into our past episodes to highlight women who have and continue to shape history and share our perspectives on why the work of these women -- many of whom are using their nursing superpowers -- to identify, advocate, and hasten equity and representation creates a better future for all and a writes a history that carries forward these important lessons, roadmaps, and contributions.

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It’s not always obvious, but the invisible hand of policy is ever-present, shaping our lives, and impacting our health. Much of a nation’s most significant disparities and inequities are rooted in policy decisions that, intentionally or unintentionally, limit access to healthcare, education, transportation, nutrition, childcare and more. The good news: Policy is also one of the most impactful avenues for driving progress toward the health and wellbeing of every citizen. In this episode, we meet nurse Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, MPH, LCSW, RN, executive director of The Institute for Policy Solutions at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, a new institute working to redesign the US healthcare system with the goal of shifting policy and practice to more preventive, value-based and whole-person care. Based in Washington, D.C., right down the street from the U.S. Capitol, Guilamo-Ramos shares the Institute's mission of teaching, research, and convening, and its deep commitment to social welfare, social justice, and public health, as well as the essential role nurses play in shaping solutions, policy, and systems to improve health for every community and every citizen.

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Resources:

• The Institute for Policy Solutions at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
• How Does US Life Expectancy Compare to Other Countries?
• Dying Early: America's Life Expectancy Crisis
• 'Live free and die?' The sad state of U.S. life expectancy.
• Falling Behind: The Growing Gap in Life Expectancy Between the United States and Other Countries, 1933–2021
• The Post spent the past year examining U.S. life expectancy. Here’s what we found.
• Why Are So Many Americans Dying? (subscription needed)
• ANA Advocacy
• RN Action
• What a striking new study of death in America misses
• How Does the US Healthcare System Compare to Other Countries?
• Health Tracking Poll: Voters on Two Key Healthcare Issues
• Duke’s Nurse-Led Models of Health Care Transform Delivery and Reduce Health Inequities
• The Power of Social Justice in Modern Healthcare: Conversations with Vincent Guilamo-Ramos
• American Academy of Nursing's Edge Runners
• Nurse-Designed Care Models and Culture of Health
• Deloitte Health Equity Institute
• Manatt Health
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Despite decades of growing interest in improving Black men’s health and the health disparities affecting them, the health of Black men consistently ranks lowest across nearly all groups in the United States. In this update, we’re reconnecting with Julius Johnson, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, a Nurse Practitioner, educator, and football coach, for an update on how he’s keeping youth athletes safe on the playing fields, and resharing the Stories from Heart of Health event held in New York City in the middle of the U.N. General Assembly. Tune in to hear his perspective on supporting Black men’s health, as he describes meeting them where they feel most confident – barbershops, sports fields, and churches – and embracing any event or touchpoint as a teaching moment – like the cardiac arrest suffered mid-game by NFL player Damar Hamlin as an opportunity to demonstrate how to perform CPR and open a door to deeper conversations that help men of all ages take better care of themselves both on and off the field.

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Resources:

• Medicine lost the trust of many Black Americans. How can it be restored? 
• Visible and Invisible Trends in Black Men’s Health: Pitfalls and Promises for Addressing Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Inequities in Health
• The Health of Men: Structured Inequalities and Opportunities
• Education Usually Improves Health. But Racism Sabotages Benefits For Black Men
• From the Bedside to the Barbershop: The Natural Connection Between Nursing and Community Advocacy
• All of Us Research Program | National Institutes of Health
• Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Shows the Elevated Risk for Heart Failure Among Black Athletes
• Greater NYC Black Nurses Association Chapter
• Damar Hamlin collabs with American Heart Association for #3forHeart challenge
• CPR saves lives; Damar Hamlin is high-profile proof
• Racial and Ethnic Differences in Bystander CPR for Witnessed Cardiac Arrest | NEJM
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training Disparities in the United States
• After Damar Hamlin’s Collapse, American Heart Association Sees Spike in CPR Searches
• Doctors call on more people to learn CPR after Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest
• Keeping Athletes Healthy & Safe: Exclusive interview with Dr. Julius Johnson | New York Post Sports
• Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest one year ago leads to spike in CPR training
• 2000 School Children Learn Life-saving CPR Skill
• Be The Beat CPR Playlist | American Heart Association
• AHA playlist to achieve the right CPR rhythm | Spotify
• CDC Heart Health Month Toolkits

Recorded live at the 2023 DNPs of Color conference, hear from five extraordinary nurse leaders who are shifting entrenched power dynamics and blazing new trails of opportunity for nurses of color and the profession as a whole. Featuring Danielle McCamey, founder of DNPs of Color, Meedie Clark Bardonille, founder Black Nurse Collaborative, Wallena Gould, founder of Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program, Lucinda Canty, founder of equity initiative Lucinda’s House, and Sandra Davis, Deputy Director, National League for Nursing for this empowering and revealing conversation highlighting successful strategies for advancing diversity and representation in leadership positions, effective ways to dismantle the systemic barriers nurses of color often encounter in their professional journeys, and practical guidance on spearheading initiatives to address health disparities and drive health equity.

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Resources:

• DNPs of Color
• Black Nurse Collaborative
• Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program
• Lucinda's House
• National League for Nursing
• National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing

From our first episode, SEE YOU NOW has been focused on trailblazers, changemakers and pioneers, and our 100th episode features a nurse who embodies these values. Virginia Allen, LPN is the last known living Black Angel, part of a group of Black nurses recruited from the Jim Crow South whose tireless efforts led to a cure for tuberculosis, a disease responsible for nearly 18% of New York City deaths in the early 1900s. This story follows the Black Angels who, for twenty years, risked their lives working under dreadful conditions while caring for the city’s poorest and played a major role in desegregating New York City hospitals along with nursing practice, education, and professional associations including the American Nurses Association.

In this episode, recorded live at the 2023 DNPs of Color conference, Virginia and Maria Smilios, author of the new book, ‘The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses who Helped Cure Tuberculosis’ share their story with Nurses You Should Know creators Joanna Seltzer Uribe and Ravenne Aponte to the next generation of nursing innovators and trailblazers.

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Resources:

• The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
• How Black Nurses Were Recruited to Staten Island to Fight a Deadly Disease (Subscription Fee)
• DNPs of Color 2023 Conference
• Images from DNPs of Color 2023 Conference
• DNPs of Color Membership
• DNPs of Color | Black Angels Scholarship
• The Black Angels Book Club Collaboration (December 15 Deadline)
• Black Angels remembered for treating tuberculosis patients decades ago
• Schomburg Center Volunteer Is One of the Last Surviving ‘Black Angels’
• Nurses You Should Know: Changing the Nursing Narrative

A choir for nurses, art tours for clinicians, on-demand meditation for all healthcare workers.  In this episode, we’re sharing a panel discussion recorded live at Aspen Ideas: Health featuring Winnie Mele, RN, Jon LaPook, MD, David Ko, and Eric Wei, MD to learn how clinical settings are testing support and wellness interventions to boost emotional health and tame the widespread stress and burnout among nurses, physicians, and all healthcare providers that intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to strain so many. Clinical staff are reporting remarkable improvements in morale and motivation from these creative approaches. Effective patient care is best delivered by a compassionate care team, and that means designing programs to heal the healers.

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Resources:

• The Empathy Project
• Northwell Health Nurse Choir x Aspen Ideas: Health Sizzle Reel
• Overcoming Burnout and Healing the Healers
• Calm Health
• Helping Healers Heal (H3): Recognizing the Importance and Need of Targeted Wellness Resources Within the Emergency Department Setting
• NYC Health + Hospitals to Launch Employee Wellness Program to Address Emotional Stress and Burnout among Health Care Providers Who Are Considered "Second Victims" of Traumatic Events
• Healing Walls: New York City Health + Hospitals Community Mural Project 2019-2021
• Helping Healers Heal: Stress, Trauma, & Resilience Training
• Helping Healers Heal – Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
• UT Southwestern Research Labs Depression Self-Test

Our stories are incredibly powerful. Stories are part of who we are as nurses -- it’s how we gather evidence, unravel medical mysteries, distract people from unpleasant procedures, how we build trust and rapport, and humanize individual and collective experiences. Research indicates that whether the story is a happy one or a hard one -- just knowing the stories of pivotal life experiences helps marshal psychological strengths.

In this episode, recorded in front of a live audience in Chicago at the 2023 American Nurses Credentialing Center National Magnet Conference® and Pathway to Excellence Conference®, nurses shared – in stories and verse – identifying gaps in care, the problems needing attention and solutions, and the partnerships that make us better. Featured in this episode are nurses Jean Ross, RN; Jodi Traver, PhD, RN; Jasmine Bhatti, PhD, RN; Mary Anne Schultz, PhD, MBA, MSN, RN, FAAN; Joey Ferry, BSN, RN; Taofiki Gafar Schaner, MSN, RN; Lindsey Roddy, PhD(c), RN; Stephanie Martinez, MBA, RN; Lorie Hassel-Chuang, BSN, RN, RDH; and Paul Coyne, DNP, MBA, MSF, RN, APRN, AGPCNP-BC.

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Resources:

• Navi Nurses
• Inspiren
• SafeSeizure(™)
• Roddy Medical
• Primary Record
• ANA Innovation
• ANA Innovation Awards
• ANA Innovation Lounges
• The Reimagining Nursing Initiative
• Nursing Innovations: Sharing Nursing Now USA Initiatives
• ANCC National Magnet + Pathway to Excellence Conference
• The ANA Innovation Engine: Activating Innovation Through Education and Communities of Practice

Homelessness across the U.S. is on the rise. The National Alliance to End Homelessness reports the number of unsheltered and chronically homeless individuals and families has climbed ~6% annually since 2017, and an estimated 582,462 people experienced homelessness across America in 2022. Advocacy groups and researchers say a big driving force is the decline of affordable housing, a problem decades in the making but one that has grown significantly worse in the past few years. And when people lose their homes, housing and shelter, their lives, health, and safety become far more complex and at risk.

In observance of Homelessness Awareness Month, we’re listening again to this important episode centered on the stories, proven solutions, and care models that are meaningfully improving the health and lives of our most complex community members. Nurse Lauran Hardin, MSN, CNL, FNAP, FAAN shares how inviting a broad range of community agencies to collaboratively address and solve complex situations and care needs improves housing access, reduces avoidable and unnecessary hospital visits, supports behavioral health, and provides the deep satisfaction healthcare professionals experience when people get the full range of health, housing, and human services they need for healthy, joyful, connected lives

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Resources

• State of Pennilessness: 2023 Edition
• The History of Homelessness in the US
• 4 Charts That Explain How People Slide Into Homelessness
• More Americans Are Ending Up Homeless—at a Record Rate
• Pathways Out of Homelessness
• Meet the Texas Startup Aiming to Solve the US Housing Crisis
• The National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs
• What is Complex Care?
• Blueprint for Complex Care
• Taking care of Charlie helped one California town nearly halve hospital use
• National Healthcare & Housing Advisors
• Illumination Foundation
• Why understanding chronic illness improves community health
• Helping Communities End Homelessness
• Some of Austin’s homeless die from treatable conditions. One group works to heal the disparity.
• Using Asset Maps to Match Community Supports for Patients with Complex Care Needs: An Interview with the Camden Coalition’s Lauran Hardin
  National Healthcare for the Homeless Council 
• Homelessness Is Solvable | Community Solutions
  4 Innovative Ways Nurses Shifted Healthcare to the Communities Who Needed It Most Amid the Pandemic
• Cross-sector collaboration for vulnerable populations reduces utilization and strengthens community partnerships
• How Houston Moved 25,000 People From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own
• Concentration of Healthcare Expenditures and Selected Characteristics of Persons with High Expenses, U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2019

Can your zip code determine your future? Data shows that where you grow up significantly influences your health, employment and financial opportunities, dramatically shaping your earning potential and quality of life. In our Meeting of Minds series, we invite you to listen in on conversations between leaders driving innovation in and outside of healthcare.

In this episode, Audria Denker DNP, RN, FAADN, ANEF, Juatise Gathings, and Emily Fairchild, ADN, two leaders and a nursing student, compare notes on investment and building opportunity in under-resourced communities while simultaneously achieving business enterprise goals. Learn how Galen School of Nursing in rural Kentucky and a financial services call center in Chicago’s South Side are providing wraparound support alongside education and employment opportunities ensuring students and employees have the practical, social, and financial support they need to build their careers, communities, and thrive in their new programs and positions.

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Resources:

• Opportunity Atlas shows the effect of childhood zip codes on adult success
• Centering Equity in Wraparound Student Services
• Wraparound Services and Student Success
• Every student has a story: Expanding access to nursing education
• Galen attempting to reshape community, fill nursing needs
• How Much Does Nursing School Cost?
• The World Could be Short of 13 million Nurses in 2030 - Here's Why
• A radically simple way to boost a neighborhood
• Discover Is Opening a Call Center And Bringing 1,000 Jobs To Chicago’s South Side
• Transforming Place Through Neighborhood Leadership
• Fighting Poverty One Family at a Time: Experimental Evidence from an Intervention with Holistic, Individualized, Wrap-Around Services
• From Degrees to Dollars: Six-Year Findings from the Ohio ASAP Demonstration
• Galen College of Nursing
• Juatise Gathings: 40 under 40
• One year in, Discover’s Chatham customer care center is still banking on the society

A key component of sound mental health that may help protect against depression and anxiety is resilience, and knowing that you’re connected to a greater purpose—to a story larger than your own—is key to building it. For Native and indigenous peoples, the stories of origin, history, and identity are central in building resilience and experiencing optimal health. In this episode, we meet indigenous nurse researcher John Lowe, RN, PhD, FAAN, and discover how he is addressing the long-standing structural impediments that have kept American Indian, Alaska Native and indigenous youth from connecting to their cultural heritage, native identity, and to a history that he describes as a source of great strength. John established the first Center for Indigenous Nurse Research For Health Equity where he is innovating on ancestral wisdom and tradition—through practices like the Virtual Talking Circle—to enable indigenous youth to move away from harmful behaviors and move toward lives and coping mechanisms that are both positive and strength-based.

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Resources

• Center for Indigenous Nursing Research for Health Equity
• International Indigenous Nursing Research Summit 2022: Honoring our Past, Present & Future
• Talking Circle Intervention
• A Proclamation on Indigenous Peoples Day, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/10/07/a-proclamation-on-indigenous-peoples-day-2022/
• International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 2023
• Ideas to Honor Indigenous Peoples Day
• Encompassing Cultural Contexts Within Scientific Research Methodologies in the Development of Health Promotion Interventions
• Family Narratives and the Development of Children's Emotional Well-Being

We’re swapping episodes with our friends at Radio Advisory to hear what they’re learning that can help address pressing workforce issues in health care, while Radio Advisory listeners are checking out an episode of SEE YOU NOW.

Recent research shows that health workforce vacancies – particularly among registered nurses – is the top issue for health care CEOs. While nursing vacancies are challenging for nursing departments, there are a host of systemwide problems that will impact quality and safety alongside an organization's ability to grow.

In this Radio Advisory episode, host Rachel (Rae) Woods speaks with Advisory Board's Chief Nursing Officer, Carol Boston, and two leaders from University Hospitals – Chief Quality & Clinical Transformation Officer, Peter Pronovost, and Chief Nursing Executive, Michelle Hereford – about recent data and their experiences navigating the complexity of the workforce vacancies. They share key insights and explore how reduced staffing is impacting health organizations at large, why organizations can't seem to find a solution, and how addressing tactical issues alone will not solve the crisis.

We're delighted to introduce you to the Radio Advisory podcast and why it’s a vital part of the health care podcasting listening-scape.

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Resources

• Is the nurse shortage putting patients at risk?
• Hospital CEOs' top concern? Staffing.
• Hard truths on the current and future state of the nursing workforce
• Ep. 135: Henry Ford Health on nursing shortages and the real supply chain issue, https://radioadvisory.advisory.com/tags/clinical%20workforce?utm_source=radioadvisory&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=e162_2023&utm_content=description
• Our Clinical Workforce playlist, https://radioadvisory.advisory.com/135?utm_source=radioadvisory&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=e162_2023&utm_content=description

March 2024 marks two years since President Biden signed into law the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act. This landmark, first-of-its-kind legislation has funded more than $100 million in grants to implement strategies to reduce and prevent burnout, stress and suicide, sustain well-being, and build workplace cultures and practices so our healthcare workforce can thrive!

The law and the recent bipartisan resolution designating March 18th as Health Workforce Well-Being Day of Awareness is keeping the spotlight and urgency on this workforce crisis and helping reduce stigma, advance research, and ensure that those who care for us can get the care they need.

So we're having another listen to this episode recorded Live at Aspen Ideas: Health in 2023 where an expert panel led by nurse economist Shawna Butler, RN, MBA, vividly describes how many of our health workplaces and practices are exhausting, overly burdensome, and causing moral distress. Kathy Howell, MBA, BSN, RN, NEA-BC, former Chief Nurse Executive, UCHealth; Corey Feist, President and Co-Founder, Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation; and Iman Abuzeid, CEO and Co-Founder, Incredible Health, provide insight into what healthcare talent is seeking from their careers, how forward-leaning health executives are responding to market conditions and workforces that have dramatically shifted, and the readily available system level policy changes urgently needed to support and sustain a thriving health workforce.

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This Episode Won A 2023 "Bronze" Digital Health Awards® 

It’s broadly accepted that only 20% of health outcomes are determined by medical care. The other 80% are determined by the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, learn, work and age; circumstances shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels -- what is better understood as the political determinants of health -- voting, government, and policy. And the more people who vote in your community, the healthier your community is.

As nurses and midwives witness health access and outcomes increasingly being determined by ballot measures or wrapped in policy decisions, they are turning their next steps of advocacy and activism into running for elected public office. In this episode, we explore with Kimberly Gordon, DNP, CRNA, co-founder of the nonpartisan non-profit Healing Politics, why nurses and midwives need to get politically engaged, run for elected office up and down the ballot, what campaign training sounds like, and how to build a culture of civic engagement within the nursing professions.

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Resources

• Healing Politics Campaign School for Nurses and Midwives
• Duke University Launches Course To Train Nurses in Politics
• What Are Political Determinants of Health?
• The Civic Health Movement. Creating a Healthier Democracy
• A Healthier Democracy
• Civic Health Month
• Health & Democracy Index
• Vot-ER.org
• American Nurse: The nursing profession’s potential impact on policy and politics
• How and why nurses became involved in politics or political action, and the outcomes or impacts of this involvement
  
• Nurses have a powerful voice. We help them use it. 
• Advocacy to Activism. See You Now podcast bundle | Free CNE’s for listening
• The Civic Health Movement. Creating a Healthier Democracy
• American Nurse: The nursing profession’s potential impact on policy and politics
• How and why nurses became involved in politics or political action, and the outcomes or impacts of this involvement
• Another question for patients: Are you registered to vote?
• Social Determinants of Health 101 for Health Care
• SEE YOU NOW: Episode 47: A Vote for Moms' Health
  
  SEE YOU NOW: Episode 55: Ready to Vote
• SEE YOU NOW: Episode 27: Campaign for Health

As the temperatures rise and vacations are afoot, there's no better time to indulge in uninterrupted hours of podcast listening. And to make your listening easy, enjoyable, and thoughtful we’ve created a Summer SEE YOU NOW Playlist!

Given that the US and much of the world are experiencing scorching temperatures with roughly one in three Americans living under an extreme heat advisory -- we’ve included See You Now episodes that shed light on heat-related health matters. We’re also thinking about how summer is a time when graduations and moves take place -- and the perfect moment to check your voter registration status and consider the surprising impact voting has on your personal and community’s health as we gear up for Civic Health Month in August and all its upcoming activities.

During the past year, so many conversations have centered on our relationship with work and very specifically the healthcare workforce -- exploring in depth and detail “what’s working for work” and what thriving, engaged, productive work environments and workforces look like, how you build them, and how you sustain them.

Summer also signals a more relaxed pace affording time to ponder, synthesize, and discuss weightier complex topics that require deeper reflection, consideration, and commitment to progress. For just that type of listening, we’ve included See You Now episodes that go deeper into the rich, beautiful, incomplete, and complicated history of nursing and its power to change people, careers, and our world.

So, whatever comes your way this summer, See You Now has you covered with great listening, learning, and inspiration to enjoy and share with your friends and family.

Summer SEE YOU NOW Playlist!

51: The Patient is our Planet 
55: Ready to Vote? 
90: Mobile Medical and Mental Health Team 
75: The Point of Care 
86: Representation Matters 
64: Reporting Powers: Leading with Love 
87: Tackling Black Men’s Health 
Listen Again 67: Nurses You Should Know 
91: Reckoning with Racism (Part I) 
92: Reckoning with Racism (Part II)
89: Nursing’s Power to Change Our World 

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Around the world, cancer is on the rise in people under the age of 50 – an upward march that has been underway for decades. Even with stunning new advances in research, early detection, and treatment, many clinicians are worried about the prevalence of certain cancers, including breast, colon, kidney, liver, esophageal, and pancreatic cancers, in younger people. What’s more, practitioners and public health experts are deeply concerned about missed screenings and delayed preventive care as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact that will have on persistent racially driven health disparities in cancer care, treatment, and survivorship for minority communities.

In this Moment of Awareness, Nurse Practitioner and researcher Timiya Nolan, PhD, APRN-CNP, ANP-BC, describes her research as a “work of love” to young Black women, how representation allows research to move from academia to practice, and the power clinicians have in addressing disparities in care through partnership and collaboration with communities.

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Resources

• Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic? Current evidence and future implications
• Cancer Among Those Under 50 Is Rising Dramatically—Study Examines Causes and Risk Factors
• American Cancer Society warns about potential impact of missed screenings during Covid
• FDA’s Oncology Center of Excellence Establishes National Black Family Cancer Awareness Week
• African American Male Wellness Agency
• Cancer in the Black Community: Cancer Disparities
• Cancer Disparities in the Black Community
• Equity in Cancer Care: Strategies for Oncology Nurses
• Amplifying the Global Impact of Oncology Nursing
• The importance of nurses in cancer care
• The heart of health care: Oncology nursing
• The Invisible Roles of Oncology Nurses in Shared Decision Making
• Cancer-Specific health equity metrics in the United States of America: A scoping review
• The Role of Nurses in Improving Health Equity
• Climate Change and Oncology Nursing: A Call to Action
• The ties that bind: Cancer history, communication, and screening intention associations among diverse families.
• Life after breast cancer: 'Being' a young African American survivor
• CE: Assessing and Managing Spiritual Distress in Cancer Survivorship
• Cancer Moonshot - Ending Cancer as We Know It, https://www.whitehouse.gov/cancermoonshot/
• Nursing Science in Action: Community Inspired Interventions

Racism in America remains pervasive. It’s led to sicker, shorter lives for people of color; a healthcare workforce that hasn’t reflected the communities it cares for; and caused harm to nursing and nurses, particularly nurses of color. Aware of its own role in perpetuating systemic racism, the American Nurses Association (ANA) is on a journey of racial reckoning along with many partners inside and outside of nursing and health care. In this two-part episode, we hear from leaders in nursing, media, and the life sciences industry about how they are leaning into racial reckoning in their organizations to address and eliminate the harms of racism.

In Part II, Shawna Butler, RN, MBA, and co-host Lucinda Canty, PhD, CNM, FACNM, dig into the role media, journalism, and industry play in addressing and eliminating racially driven health disparities and inequities. Vanessa Broadhurst, Executive Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs of Johnson & Johnson describes Our Race to Health Equity, a bold initiative addressing racial and social injustice as a public health threat; reveals funding and partnerships targeted at diversifying the health care and broader workforce; and making certain their internal practices are living up to their diversity, equity, and inclusion commitments. Errin Haines, editor-at-large at the nonprofit newsroom The 19th, describes the importance of media in shaping our awareness, accuracy and understanding of the scope of racism in health care and why reporting on the people and areas of progress can reduce racially driven health disparities.

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Resources:

• The 19^th
• Diagnosing the History of Racism in the Media
• Unpacking How Media Influences Our Views on Racism
• What CEOs Said About George Floyd’s Death
• Our Race to Health Equity
• Health for Humanity 2025 Goals
• Johnson & Johnson’s Commitment To The Nursing Profession
• Racial and Ethnic Differences in Access to Medical Care
• Missing Persons: Minorities in the Health Professions
• Racial Discrimination in Healthcare: How Structural Racism Affects Healthcare
• The Costs of Institutional Racism and its Ethical Implications for Healthcare
• Structural Racism In Historical And Modern US Health Care Policy
• ANA: Our Racial Reckoning Statement
• National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing
• The Sum of Us: What Racism Cost Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
• What Racism Costs Us All

This Episode Won A 2023 "Silver" Digital Health Awards® 

Racism in America remains pervasive. It’s led to sicker, shorter lives for people of color; a health care workforce that hasn’t reflected the communities it cares for; and caused harm to nursing and nurses, particularly nurses of color. Aware of its own role in perpetuating systemic racism, the American Nurses Association (ANA) is on a journey of racial reckoning along with many partners inside and outside of nursing and health care. In this two-part episode, we hear from leaders in nursing, media, and the life sciences industry about how they are leaning into racial reckoning in their organizations to address and eliminate the harms of racism.

In Part I, Shawna Butler, RN, MBA, and co-host Lucinda Canty, PhD, CNM, FACNM, engage in thoughtful and forthright dialog with Cheryl Peterson, MSN, RN, about ANA’s Racial Reckoning Statement; how it led to the creation of the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing; and the work ANA has committed to in moving forward to antiracist practices, policies, and the nursing profession.

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Resources:

• The 19^th
• Diagnosing the History of Racism in the Media
• Unpacking How Media Influences Our Views on Racism
• What CEOs Said About George Floyd’s Death
• Our Race to Health Equity
• Health for Humanity 2025 Goals
• Johnson & Johnson’s Commitment To The Nursing Profession
• Racial and Ethnic Differences in Access to Medical Care
• Missing Persons: Minorities in the Health Professions
• Racial Discrimination in Healthcare: How Structural Racism Affects Healthcare
• The Costs of Institutional Racism and its Ethical Implications for Healthcare
• Structural Racism In Historical And Modern US Health Care Policy
• ANA: Our Racial Reckoning Statement
• National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing
• The Sum of Us: What Racism Cost Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
• What Racism Costs Us All

In celebration of Pride Month, we’re returning to an earlier episode highlighting nurse practitioner and healthcare activist Dallas Ducar (she/her/hers), the CEO of Transhealth Northampton. People of all gender and sexual identities need and deserve respectful, affirming healthcare, and the work of Dallas and her team is essential in expanding access – and improving quality of life – for all.

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous, and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, rethink how healthcare is organized and where it’s delivered.

In this fourth of a multi-episode series centered on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report we take a close up look at how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed disparities in access to care that landed far more heavily on vulnerable communities. This is especially true for the Transgender community which has been uniquely affected by the pandemic in terms of access to gender-affirming care. We spend time with Nurse Practitioner and healthcare activist Dallas Ducar (she/her/hers), the CEO of Transhealth Northampton, and learn how their ground-breaking comprehensive care clinic delivers gender-affirming care to gender-diverse adults, children, and families. In this work, Dallas describes the ripple and compounding effects of discrimination, the impact of legislation on telehealth, the role of community-based participatory action research, and the ways that nurse-led innovation can be the playbook for healthier, experiences, outcomes, workplaces, and affirming care for all of us.

Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com.

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Resources

• Transhealth Northampton
• Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research and Highlights Johnson & Johnson, American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care - STAT
• Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: COVID-19 Care
• With More Freedom, A Nurse-Led Model for Healthcare is Gaining Ground During Pandemic
• ANA Position Statement: Nursing Advocacy for LGBTQ+ Populations
• Massive Study Confirms Telehealth Effective in Primary Care
• Telehealth Rollbacks Leave Patients Stranded, Some Doctors Say
• The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on LGBT People
• Human Rights Campaign: Transgender Resources
• Tips for Allies of Transgender People
• Toward a Uniform Classification of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Laws
• Why It’s Not A Labor Shortage
• Protecting and Advancing Health Care for Transgender Adult Communities

A common stereotype of aging is an era of decline and shrinking horizons, but the process of aging is far more nuanced. Many find their health and functional trajectories widen as they get older. In fact, some, like President Joe Biden or pioneering nurse-midwife Ruth Lubic, won’t make their greatest contributions until their later years. Key to staying healthy as we age is maintaining or improving health, which largely falls outside of healthcare facilities. Led by Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN, the CAPABLE (Community Aging in Place—Advancing Better Living for Elders) program brings together a nurse, an occupational therapist, and a handy worker to address the home environment, while encouraging the strengths of older adults to improve safety, independence, and dignity based on the client’s goals. By installing small, cost-effective adaptations to the home environment, older adults can ease the navigation of daily living – bathing, dressing, standing to cook, using stairs – sustaining their physical, mental, and emotional energy and leading to richer lives full of creativity and meaningful contribution.. 

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Resources:

• CAPABLE - https://nursing.jhu.edu/faculty_research/research/projects/capable/
• Older Americans Month 2023 - https://acl.gov/oam/2023/older-americans-month-2023
• Aging Well and Equitably - https://19thnews.org/events/aging-well-and-equitably/
• CAPABLE Video: Aging vignette featuring Sarah Szanton / We Got This - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVTQnb9WaRo
• CAPABLE Video: Sarah Szanton - Heinz Award - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30615024/
• Many Older Adults Lack Even Simple, Helpful Equipment - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/health/elderly-medical-equipment.html?smid=em-share
• Effect of a Biobehavioral Environmental Approach on Disability Among Low-Income Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30615024/

Around the world, people of all ages and communities report increasing rates of mental and behavioral health illnesses. For those experiencing chronic homelessness, those mental illnesses are often compounded by chronic medical conditions and substance use disorders. Without safe, permanent housing and access to primary care, those experiencing homelessness – and often hopelessness – miss needed care, wind up in emergency departments and jails, and never receive the social services that may be available to them. In this episode, we learn from nurse Ashley Sharma, RN, and physician Tim Mercer, MD, MPH, of the Mobile Medical and Mental Health (M3) Team in Austin, Texas, about their high-touch approach to caring for people facing the triple threat of chronic homelessness, medical and mental health conditions, and how – in the face of clinicians wearing down from navigating fragmented health systems and departing the workforce – this collaborative, integrated care approach strengthens a sense of purpose and impact for clinicians..

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Resources

• Integral Care: Mobile Medical and Mental Health (M3) Team
  https://integralcare.org/program/mobile-medical-and-mental-health-m3-team/
• 'Saved my life': How an Austin team is bringing medical care to the homeless
  https://www.statesman.com/story/news/healthcare/2022/12/29/austin-m3-team-collaboration-health-care-homeless-community-clinics/69738687007/
• Some of Austin's homeless die from treatable conditions. One group works to heal the disparity.
  https://www.kut.org/health/2022-12-02/homelessness-sick-mobile-medical-and-mental-health-care-team-m3-dell-medical-school
• Q&A: Dell Medical School's Dr. Tim Mercer talks providing health care for Austin's homeless
  https://communityimpact.com/austin/southwest-austin-dripping-springs/people/2021/06/30/qa-dell-medical-schools-dr-tim-mercer-talks-providing-health-care-for-austins-homeless/
• Disparities Within Serious Mental Illness
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK368430/
• Mental Health By the Numbers | NAMI
  https://nami.org/mhstats?gclid=Cj0KCQiA7bucBhCeARIsAIOwr-_mryPgVr3hp8Lz9-i-aijtm5GJWQeY_Q8IM0faz9DI722oo2Q2TFAaAjFGEALw_wcB
• Mental Health Statistics | Forbes
  https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/mental-health-statistics/#footnote_31
• Homelessness, housing instability and mental health: making the connections
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7525583/
• The health of homeless people in high-income countries: descriptive epidemiology, health consequences, and clinical and policy recommendations | Lancet Journal
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4520328/
• Health Conditions Among Individuals with a History of Homelessness Research Brief
  https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/health-conditions-among-individuals-history-homelessness-research-brief-0
• The Complex Link Between Homelessness and Mental Health
  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-matters-menninger/202105/the-complex-link-between-homelessness-and-mental-health

This Episode Won A 2023 "Bronze" Digital Health Awards® 

Celebrate National Nurses Month with this powerful, inspiring conversation with journalist and critically acclaimed author Sarah DiGregorio. In her new book, Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World, DiGregorio chronicles the history and power of nursing to create a healthier, more just world and make an urgent call for change in how we value and harness nursing expertise; and in this conversation, she explores and celebrates the breadth of knowledge, wisdom, and innovation that flourishes across nursing, with guests Tobi Ash, MBA, BSN, RN; Roxana Chicas, PhD, RN; Katie Huffling, DNP, RN, CNM, FAAN; and Sherri Wilson, DNP, MPA, RN.

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On-Demand: Nursing's Power to Change the World: National Nurses Month 2023

Celebrate National Nurses Month with critically acclaimed author Sarah DiGregorio and nurse innovators from her new book, Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World.

Hear from nurses, nurse innovators, and nursing advocates from across the country and celebrate the breadth of knowledge, wisdom, and innovation that flourishes across our profession.

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Resources

• Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
  https://bookshop.org/p/books/taking-care-the-revolutionary-story-of-nursing-sarah-digregorio/19257958?ean=9780063071285
• Sarah DiGregorio | Website
  https://sarahdigregorio.com
• Sarah DiGregorio on recognizing the value of nurses
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPUul1S-q4
• Engaging in Medical Education with Sensitivity (EMES)
  https://emesinitiative.org/?fbclid=IwAR1jXZWK9YGSttaDuZ0WV5YqJiIt66XwxuIvX25d7FHDxOdIB070TXE7CTk
• Amid a Measles Outbreak, an Ultra-Orthodox Nurse Fights Vaccination Fears in Her Community
  https://www.newyorker.com/news/as-told-to/amid-a-measles-outbreak-an-ultra-orthodox-nurse-fights-vaccination-fears-in-her-community
• PIE: Parents Informed and Educated
  https://www.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/a-slice-of-pie.pdf
• The Nurse Scientist Helping Farm Workers Stay Cool Amid Climate Change
  https://nursing.jnj.com/nursing-news-events/nurses-leading-innovation/the-nurse-scientist-helping-farm-workers-stay-cool-amid-climate-change
• Nurse Urges EPA To Clean Up Pollution From Cars
  https://www.americanprogress.org/article/nurse-urges-epa-clean-pollution-cars/
• Farmworkers who face extreme heat fear retaliation or deportation if they complain, says nurse
  https://theworld.org/stories/2021-07-21/farmworkers-who-face-extreme-heat-fear-retaliation-or-deportation-if-they
• For Farmworkers, Heat Too Often Means Needless Death
  https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09072021/for-farmworkers-heat-too-often-means-needless-death/
  New Study Links Climate Change to Health & Economic Risks of Outdoor Workers
  https://news.wgcu.org/show/gulf-coast-life/2021-08-24/new-study-links-climate-change-to-health-economic-risks-of-outdoor-workers
• “I’m Going to Match!” A Tale of Nurses, Mentoring, and a Lifetime Bond
  https://minoritynurse.com/im-going-to-match-a-tale-of-nurses-mentoring-and-a-lifetime-bond/
• Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
  https://envirn.org/
• Katie Huffling knows nurses can create a healthier world
  https://www.myamericannurse.com/climate-change-environmental-health-influencers/
• Stride: A Learning Company
  https://www.stridelearning.com/?leadsource=press&lead_source_detail=national&utm_campaign=  

This Episode Won A 2023 "Silver" Digital Health Awards® 

According to the United Nations, climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity. We see it every day in headlines, research, and outside of our windows. As public health leaders and climate first responders, nurses are often the first to witness the impact of climate change on people’s health and livelihoods, as well as its disruption to the ability of our health care systems to respond.

While the situation is dire and the stakes are existential, there are solutions that health care as a sector and a workforce can embrace to reduce the harmful and inequitable impact of carbon emissions. In this episode, we learn from public health nurse Kasey Bellegarde, MPH, RN, and physician Jonathan Perlin, MD, PhD, president and CEO of The Joint Commission and former president of HCA Healthcare, how clinicians are inspiring an "all-hands-on-deck decarbonizing movement" and why committing to the Health Sector Climate Pledge is critical in lowering the health sector’s carbon footprint while also building a brighter, greener, and more equitable future for generations to come.

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Resources

• Earth Day
• Nurse-Family Partnership
• The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate
• Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
• The Role of Nursing in Climate Change and Public Health
• Health Sector Climate Pledge
• The Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE), https://www.hhs.gov/ash/ocche/index.html
• National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing the Health Sector
• STAT News special report: Dr. Perlin shares thoughts on decarbonization
• FACT SHEET: Health Sector Leaders Join Biden Administration’s Pledge to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions 50% by 2030, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/30/fact-sheet-health-sector-leaders-join-biden-administrations-pledge-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions-50-by-2030/
• ‘If I were a hospital, I’d be reading the tea leaves’: Pressures grow on the health care industry to reduce its climate pollution
• A minuscule new HHS office has a mammoth goal: tackling environmental justice
• Health Care Without Harm's Health Care's Climate Footprint Report
• Health Care Without Harm's Global Roadmap for Health Care Decarbonization
• UK NHS report on getting to net zero
• WHO ATACH (low carbon, climate resilient health systems)
• Reducing Healthcare Carbon Emissions: A Primer on Measures and Actions for Healthcare Organizations to Mitigate Climate Change
• SCOPE 3 GHG EMISSIONS ACCOUNTING TOOL
• HHS Shares Health Sector Emissions Reduction and Climate Resilience Announcements at COP27
• CLIMATE ACTION: A Playbook for Hospitals
• Climate Solutions Double as Health Interventions
• Health Care Pollution And Public Health Damage In The United States: An Update
• Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector — A Call to Action
• Estimated Global Disease Burden From US Health Care Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Policy Dialogue - Nursing Leadership in Decarbonizing the US Health Sector
• Nurses Drawdown
• Planetary Health | University of Minnesota School of Nursing

What if nursing’s professional origin story represented the contribution and stories of all nurses? Like many origin stories, nursing’s has overlooked, omitted, or forgotten the contributions of many, but particularly nurses of color who have shaped the nursing profession and society in significant and enduring ways. How might having an inclusive, expansive history and nursing narrative impact the diversity, cohesion, safety, and performance of our health care teams and systems and in achieving our health equity goals? What if names like Mary Seacole, Hazel Johnson Brown, and Eddie Bernice Johnson were as familiar to reference as nursing icons, innovators, and game changers as Florence Nightingale? In this episode, we meet nurse innovators Ravenne Aponte, BA, BSN and Joanna Seltzer Uribe, RN, MSN, EdD (c) in their quest to introduce you to, in fun and sticky ways, Nurses You Should Know -- and more importantly -- WHY we should know them.

Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com

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Resources

• Nurses You Should Know 
• The Barbara Bates Center for the study of History of Nursing
• BHM Essential Readings
• https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/details/profiles.php?id=17479
• Joanna Seltzer Uribe RN MSN,EdD(c)  Johnson & Johnson Nurse Innovation Fellowship Capstone Project Video
• American Association for the History of Nursing
• Beyond Florence: Valuing Nurses in the History of Health Care
• The National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations (NCEMNA)
• Celebrating Nurse Trailblazer Estelle Massey Osborne
• National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing
• Black Nursing Historical Timeline

This Episode Won A 2023 "Bronze" Digital Health Awards® 

Despite decades of growing interest in improving Black men’s health and the health disparities affecting them, the health of Black men consistently ranks lowest across nearly all groups in the United States. As part of a Stories from Heart of Health event held in New York City in the middle of the U.N. General Assembly, Julius Johnson, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, a Nurse Practitioner, educator, and football coach, shared his stories and approaches supporting Black men’s health. By meeting them where they feel most confident – barbershops, sports fields, and churches, he embraces any event or touchpoint – like the cardiac arrest suffered mid-game by NFL player Damar Hamlin – as a teaching and trust-building moment to open the door to deeper conversations that help men of all ages take better care of themselves both on and off the field.

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Resources

• Stories From the Heart of Health | Live Event
• Medicine lost the trust of many Black Americans. How can it be restored?
• Visible and Invisible Trends in Black Men’s Health: Pitfalls and Promises for Addressing Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Inequities in Health
• The Health of Men: Structured Inequalities and Opportunities
• Education Usually Improves Health. But Racism Sabotages Benefits For Black Men
• From the Bedside to the Barbershop: The Natural Connection Between Nursing and Community Advocacy
• All of Us Research Program | National Institutes of Health
• Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Shows the Elevated Risk for Heart Failure Among Black Athletes
• Greater NYC Black Nurses Association Chapter
• Damar Hamlin collabs with American Heart Association for #3forHeart challenge
• CPR saves lives; Damar Hamlin is high-profile proof
• Racial and Ethnic Differences in Bystander CPR for Witnessed Cardiac Arrest | NEJM
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training Disparities in the United States
• After Damar Hamlin’s Collapse, American Heart Association Sees Spike in CPR Searches
• Doctors call on more people to learn CPR after Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest
• AHA playlist to achieve the right CPR rhythm | Spotify

The existence of racial disparities in health care in the United States is heavily documented. And what becomes crystal clear from boundary-breaking clinicians addressing health disparities is that representation matters! When the person who cares for you, looks like you, trust and quality of care improve. Cultivating a diverse workforce that looks and lives like the communities they care for requires a concerted effort that begins in our schools and training programs.

In this episode, recorded on the road at Sigma Nursing’s Creating Healthy Work Environments conference, we meet Nurse Practitioner Selena Gilles, DNP, ANP-BC, CNEcl, FNYAM, associate dean and clinical associate professor at NYU’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing and learn how she’s fostering diversity, inclusion, and belonging in the academic setting in order to build a more representative workforce and how practicing globally builds a deeper understanding of your own neighborhood.

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Resources

• DNPs of Color (DOCs)
• Training Future Nurses With Future Doctors Boosts Teamwork and Collaboration
• Interprofessional Education Benefits Nursing, Medical Students
• Community Healthcare Network NYC
• Greater NYC Black Nurses Association Chapter
• Nurses You Should Know
• To End The Nurse Shortage, Start With Nursing Schools | Washington Post
• Aspire Nurse Scholars Program Helps Diversify Nursing Ranks
• Taking Action: Top 10 Priorities to Promote Health Equity and Well-Being in Nursing
• Sigma Nursing
• Creating Healthy Work Environment Conference
• The Effects of Race and Racial Concordance on Patient-Physician Communication: A Systematic Review of the Literature

There is no shortage of headlines about health care’s challenges. A we begin a new year, we're encouraged by the beacons, the health organizations listening, taking action, and evolving to create workplace environments where people thrive. So, what's working in health care? Across our three episodes focused on redesigning work, we’ll hear how change is in the air as new models and mindsets are embraced, revolutionizing hiring, mentorship, career planning, and more.

In this third and final episode of this series, we hear from four forward-thinking nurse executives – Kathy Howell, Chief Nurse Executive, UCHealth, Maureen Sintich, Chief Nurse Executive, Inova Health System, Maggie Swietlik Chief Nursing Informatics Officer, Inova Health System, and Kathleen Sanford, Chief Nursing Officer, CommonSpirit Health. These leaders are listening and flexing their creativity, innovation, and influence to design and build careers for their workforces that are flexible, flourishing, advancing, and resulting in environments where nurses thrive in and outside of the workplace.

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Resources

• Nursing at Inova
• CommonSpirits Health: Growing, diversifying and strengthening the nation's nursing workforce
• Nursing at UCHealth
• 'Resilience isn't a pillar by itself': CommonSpirit's plan to support 44,000 nurses in 2023
• Taking Action: Top 10 Priorities to Promote Health Equity and Well-Being in Nursing
• Virtual Nursing Increased Patient Satisfaction, Decreased Falls and Medication Errors
• 5 Ways Inova Health Is Attracting and Keeping Nurses
• A Treatment for America’s Healthcare Worker Burnout
• CommonSpirit Health: Growing, Diversifying, and Strengthening the Nation’s Nursing Workforce
• Hospital Systems Face Nurse Staffing Crisis

There is no shortage of headlines about health care’s challenges. As we begin a new year, we’re encouraged by the beacons, the health organizations listening, taking action, and evolving to create workplace environments where people thrive. So, what’s working in health care? Across three episodes focused on redesigning work, we’ll hear how change is in the air as new models and mindsets are embraced - it can revolutionize hiring, mentorship, career planning, and more.

In this second episode, we meet Iman Abuzeid, the co-founder and CEO of Incredible Health, a rapidly growing tech-enabled company revolutionizing the nursing career marketplace. Iman shares insights on what nurses are seeking, and need, to provide impactful care, how to build workplace cultures that actually serve and support nurses, and how curated career experiences drive nurses’ professional advancement, stabilize the workforce, and bring joy back to nursing.

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Resources

• https://www.incrediblehealth.com/
• The Forbes Future of Work 50
• Incredible Health Raises $80M Series B, Reaching $1.65 Billion Unicorn Status as the Leader in Healthcare Hiring 
• One-third of nurses plan to quit their jobs in 2022, new study finds (3/14/22)
• Why Microsoft Measures Employee Thriving, Not Engagement
• To End the Nurse Shortage, Start With Nursing Schools 
• Policy Evaluation Of The Affordable Care Act Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration
• Incredible Health Launches Product Suite Aimed at Keeping Nursing's Next Generation in the Field
  Prevalence of and Factors Associated With Nurse Burnout in the US | JAMA Network
• Nurses and The Great Attrition | McKinsey & Company
• Medscape Nurse Career Satisfaction Report 2022: Contentment Mixed With Abuse and Frustration
• Doctors Aren’t Burned Out From Overwork. We’re Demoralized by Our Health System. | NY Times
• US spends most on health care but has worst health outcomes among high-income countries
• Addressing Health Care’s Talent Emergency | Deloitte Center for Health Solutions
• Value-Informed Nursing Practice Can Help Reset the Hospital-Nurse Relationship| JAMA Network
• Hospitals Known for Nursing Excellence Perform Better on Value Based Purchasing Measures
• The way the United States pays for nurses is broken
• Nurses Are Burned Out and Fed Up, With Good Reason | NYTimes
• Why the nursing shortage isn’t going away anytime soon | 19th News

There is no shortage of headlines about healthcare’s challenges. As we begin a new year, we’re encouraged by the beacons, the health organizations listening, taking action, and evolving to create workplace environments where people thrive. So, what’s working in healthcare? Across three episodes focused on redesigning work, we’ll hear how change is in the air as new models and mindsets are embraced, revolutionizing hiring, mentorship, career planning, and more.

In this first episode, we talk to David Yeager, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas Austin, whose research is focused on the psychology of motivation. David shares the philosophy behind a mentor mindset, which health systems can use to create a culture where nurses are able to thrive, enjoy meaningful work, and feel connected to purpose – because nurses succeed when they have the resources they need. Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com.

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Resources

• Thriving At Work | The Wharton School
• Future of the Workforce | 19th News
• Addressing Health Care’s Talent Emergency | Deloitte Center for Health Solutions 
• Value-Informed Nursing Practice Can Help Reset the Hospital-Nurse Relationship | JAMA Network
• Hospitals Known for Nursing Excellence Perform Better on Value Based Purchasing Measures
• How To Ease the Nursing Shortage in America | Center for American Progress
• The NYC nurses strike reveals a fundamental flaw in US health care
• The way the United States pays for nurses is broken
• Nurses Are Burned Out and Fed Up, With Good Reason | NYTimes
• Why the nursing shortage isn’t going away anytime soon | 19th News

There’s never been a period of our human experience without art, self-expression and sensory communication. Our earliest ancestors inherently understood the value of music, dance, and storytelling as important and powerful expressions of communication and empathy. Today, the scientific and medical communities are increasingly understanding the power of art in individual and public health, and the potential to heal trauma, manage stress, and improve health and wellbeing.

In Part II, musician Darden Smith describes his observations and process of collaborative songwriting, in which he brings his knowledge of the craft to the stories and experiences of people from all walks of life to co-create songs that heal. Together with veterans, teenagers experiencing homelessness, and others, he's written songs that capture humanity’s universal truths and developed a powerful approach for helping identify, express, and process difficult emotions. During the pandemic, he launched Frontline Songs to bring the practice of songwriting to frontline healthcare teams and in this episode, we experience what it’s like being in a collaborative songwriting workshop.

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Resources

• On the Floor
• Harnessing the Healing Power of Song
• Collaborative Songwriting Intervention for Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Music & Traumatic Stress: Music Therapy Research and Treatment with Military Populations
• Ep 70: Northwell Health Nurse Choir | SEE YOU NOW podcast
• PBS: A Brief But Spectacular Take on Caring for Those Who Care for Us – Tara Rynders 
• Meet The Medical Professionals Playing Classical Music Together Online | NPR
• How music is helping these healthcare workers get though the pandemic
• The National Association of Medical Orchestras
• The rules of improv can make you funnier. They can also make you more confident. | NPR

There’s never been a period in our human experience without art, self-expression and sensory communication. Our earliest ancestors inherently understood the value of music, dance, and storytelling as important and powerful expressions of communication and empathy. Today, the scientific and medical communities are increasingly understanding the power of art in individual and public health, and the potential to heal trauma, manage stress, and improve health and wellbeing. In this moving and art-filled two-part episode, author and science-of-arts expert Susan Magsamen and singer/songwriter Darden Smith share the research and evidence and their experience of how art changes our bodies, brains, hearts, and behaviors for the better.

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Resources

• International Arts + Mind Lab
• NeuroArts Blueprint
• The NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative
• About Susan Magsamen
• About Darden Smith
• World Health Organization: Arts and Health
• The Connection Between Art, Healing, and Public Health
• Taking Note: NIH Director on Music & the Brain
• Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
• An art exhibit on the National Mall honors health care workers who died of COVID | NPR  
• Hero Art Project. Honor, Healing, Hope.
• The Making of Frontline Songs
• Our Songs | Behind the Lyrics | Beaumont Health
• Turning Emotions Into Songs | Barnes-Jewish Hospital
• Holding On To Love
  

According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, five percent of the U.S. population accounts for half of the nation’s healthcare spending. They represent our most complex care challenges. To address the complex needs and circumstances for this five percent, it takes a village – a collaborative partnership of agencies, hospitals, shelters, law enforcement and more – who deeply understand what matters most to the individuals they serve.

In this episode, Lauran Hardin, MSN, CNL, FNAP, FAAN, Senior Advisor at National Healthcare & Housing Advisors and Illumination Foundation shares the stories, proven solutions, and care models that are meaningfully improving the health and lives of our most complex community members. By inviting a broad range of community agencies to partner in collaboratively addressing and solving complex situations and care needs, the models reduce avoidable and unnecessary hospital visits, improve housing access, support behavioral health, and provide the deep satisfaction healthcare professionals experience when patients get the full range of health and human services they need for healthy, joyful, connected lives.

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Resources

• The National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs
• What is Complex Care?
• Blueprint for Complex Care
• Taking care of Charlie helped one California town nearly halve hospital use
• National Healthcare & Housing Advisors
• Illumination Foundation
• Why understanding chronic illness improves community health
• Helping Communities End Homelessness
• Some of Austin’s homeless die from treatable conditions. One group works to heal the disparity.
• Using Asset Maps to Match Community Supports for Patients with Complex Care Needs: An Interview with the Camden Coalition’s Lauran Hardin
  National Healthcare for the Homeless Council 
• Homelessness Is Solvable | Community Solutions
  4 Innovative Ways Nurses Shifted Healthcare to the Communities Who Needed It Most Amid the Pandemic
• Cross-sector collaboration for vulnerable populations reduces utilization and strengthens community partnerships
• How Houston Moved 25,000 People From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own
• Concentration of Healthcare Expenditures and Selected Characteristics of Persons with High Expenses, U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population, 2019

Around the country, makerspaces are popping up in collaborative hot spots like universities and community centers, making innovation and invention more accessible. It’s part of a growing, broader maker culture, which brings a DIY, democratized attitude to disciplines like engineering, coding, robotics, hardware development and more. And it’s a perfect environment to foster nurse-led innovation and direct it toward actionable solutions for the health workforce crisis.

Anna Young, the co-founder and CEO of MakerHealth, is bringing makerspaces into hospitals and putting technology and fabrication capabilities directly in the hands of frontline teams, such as those at UnityPoint Health Cedar Rapids, led by Nursing Research & Innovation Coordinator Rose Hedges, DNP, RN.

In helping clinicians of all stripes bring their ideas to life, the maker culture equips nurses to be the holders of solutions and brings greater personalization to devices that improve lives. In Part II of this episode, Anna and Rose talk about how to make an “all ideas welcome” culture accessible for nurses, the need for visionary partners who elevate the skills and ingenuity of nurses, and how the moment to invest and empower nurses to drive projects is now.

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Resources

• What is a Makerspace?
• MakerNurse
• MakerHealth
• generate @ UnityPoint Health
• How Can Maker Culture Help The Health Care Industry?
• Why Microsoft Measures Employee Thriving, Not Engagement
• Talking About Burnout Is Still Taboo at Work
• Why Leaders Can’t Ignore the Human Energy Crisis
• The Cost of Nurse Turnover in 23 Numbers
• MakerHealth - Create
• Nursing Careers in Health Making: How healthcare leaders can energize and retain their creative workforce
• How Makers are 'Hacking into Hospital Supply Closets' | Health | WIRED
• A Maker Revolution in Health Care | TEDMED
• A History of Nurse Making and Stealth Innovation
• Improvised Equipment in the Home Care of the Sick | JAMA Network (1933) 
• Nation's First Medical Makerspace Opens in Texas 
• Jose Gomez-Marquez Wants to Turn Every Doctor and Nurse into a Maker
• Nurses devise their own innovations | Modern Healthcare
• The medical right to repair: the right to save lives - The Lancet
• Hospital technicians renew urgent call for Right to Repair medical equipment - PIRG
• Do-It-Yourself Health: How the Maker Movement is Innovating Health Care

Around the country, makerspaces are popping up in collaborative hot spots like universities and community centers, making innovation and invention more accessible. It’s part of a growing, broader maker culture, which brings a DIY, democratized attitude to disciplines like engineering, coding, robotics, hardware development and more. And it’s a perfect environment to foster nurse-led innovation and direct it toward actionable solutions for the health workforce crisis.

Anna Young, the co-founder and CEO of MakerHealth, is bringing makerspaces into hospitals and putting technology and fabrication capabilities directly in the hands of frontline teams, such as those at UnityPoint Health Cedar Rapids, led by Nursing Research & Innovation Coordinator Rose Hedges, DNP, RN. 

In helping clinicians of all stripes bring their ideas to life, the maker culture equips nurses to be the holders of solutions and brings greater personalization to devices that improve lives. In this episode, Anna and Rose share how makerspaces create the conditions that champion and recognize nurses as designers, device manufacturers, and app developers, and bring a sense of empowerment and autonomy to nurses.

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Resources

• MakerNurse
• MakerHealth
• generate @ UnityPoint Health
• 'generate' lab at UnityPoint St. Luke's helping healthcare workers treat coronavirus pandemic
• St. Luke’s innovation lab ‘full steam ahead’ | The Gazette 
• MakerHealth - Create
• Nursing Careers in Health Making: How healthcare leaders can energize and retain their creative workforce
• How Makers are 'Hacking into Hospital Supply Closets' | Health | WIRED
• A Maker Revolution in Health Care | TEDMED
• A History of Nurse Making and Stealth Innovation
• Improvised Equipment in the Home Care of the Sick | JAMA Network (1933) 
• Nation's First Medical Makerspace Opens in Texas 
• Jose Gomez-Marquez Wants to Turn Every Doctor and Nurse into a Maker
• Nurses devise their own innovations | Modern Healthcare
• The medical right to repair: the right to save lives - The Lancet
• Hospital technicians renew urgent call for Right to Repair medical equipment - PIRG

When COVID-19 first hit the US, the crisis response centered on equipment and hospital capacity. State, federal, and tribal leaders focused on setting up field hospitals, sourcing supplies, and mobilizing equipment. But the capacity shortfalls that most hampered our response were ultimately the country’s nursing workforce. There were not enough nurses with the skills needed, in all the places they were needed. There still aren't enough. 

Globally, health systems are struggling with historically high vacancy rates and low nurse staffing levels causing delays in care and safety concerns. All of which are driving nurses to exit the profession. Although these issues predate the pandemic, the immense physical and emotional strain of COVID-19 has precipitated a true talent emergency—one that requires urgent and substantial investments to create practice environments that attract, support, protect, respond to, and empower our nursing workforce to flourish and deliver their best.

In this episode we meet nurses Gaurdia Banister, PhD, RN and Hiyam Nadel, MBA, CCG RN who are building a culture of inquiry for a health system globally recognized for innovation. We learn how innovation serves as an essential tool for listening and learning from the frontline and caring for the staff’s wellbeing and career fulfillment, and how problem-solving can be transformative for an entire institution.

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Resources

• Johnson & Johnson Nurse Innovation Fellowship Presentation: Hiyam Nadel, RN, MBA, BSN, CGC
• The Ether Dome Challenge
• What Job Crafting Looks Like | Harvard Business Review
• A Treatment for America’s Healthcare Worker Burnout
• Addressing Health Worker Burnout: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Building a Thriving Health Workforce
• National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being
• Innovating to Address the Nursing Crisis that is a Healthcare Crisis for All
  The US Has a Chance to Invest in Health Workers Like Never Before
• FACT SHEET: The Biden-⁠Harris Administration Global Health Worker Initiative, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/11/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administration-global-health-worker-initiative/?mkt_tok=Njg1LUtCTC03NjUAAAGGrEm9CTkjCTtAhSSzOozie4zDQ6d4rknQk3RNbdT3Pogh-HZGxtxNxlEndOUvKrqdO4BFX828PxM7jOX3X-JhqpVn4B7ymctL2UYIFJRJmQFlFsY
• Burnout Among Health Care Professionals: A Call to Explore and Address This Underrecognized Threat to Safe, High-Quality Care
• #2022 Healthcare Workforce Rescue Package
• How the U.S. Could Fix Its Nursing Crisis
• America needs more doctors and nurses to survive the next pandemic
• Health workforce shortages begin to weigh on patient safety
• The cost of nurse turnover in 23 numbers
• Health Workforce Recommendations for COVID-19 Response

During the summer of 2022, SEE YOU NOW has been on the road meeting new ideas and people and sharing stories about what we’ve experienced in a wide range of healthcare encounters. In this episode we invite you join us at the Aspen Ideas: Health conference. 

Aspen’s 60+ sessions are designed to engage a broad audience in the issues that shape our lives, challenge our times, and introduce us to leaders and ideas that chart pathways toward   better health for all. Building on the understanding that reliable, safe, quality healthcare for all depends on a well-trained, energetic, and abundant workforce, the health and wellbeing of clinicians took center stage at Aspen. Despite schools of nursing, medicine, and public health attracting record numbers of qualified applicants, many highly trained health professionals are  leaving fleeing the field. In this lively panel discussion led by physician and former NYC Health commissioner Dave Chokshi, MD, seasoned clinicians Sandra Lindsay, RN, MBA, Adrian Billings, MD and Siobhan Wescott, MD MPH speak candidly about the exhaustion, debt, and moral injury plaguing the healthcare workforce; the political, financial, and workforce solutions they advocate for; and in spite of -- or because of -- the numerous system-level challenges, why working in healthcare remains a rewarding and promising career choice. 

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Resources

• Aspen Ideas: Health 2022
• Aspen: Why Work in Healthcare?
• Creating A Thriving Workforce

During September, we’re adding our support to National Suicide Prevention Month by listening to Sending Out an SOS, taking this moment to raise awareness of this stigmatized, and often taboo topic to shift public perception, spread hope, share vital information about suicide prevention, and that 988 is the new nationwide, simple, and easy-to-remember number to call or text for help with mental health, substance use, and suicide crises.

On April 26, 2020 as New York City was reeling from the first, unrelenting wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the US, Dr. Lorna Breen died by suicide. Despite being aware of and having published on the risks and phenomenon of burnout in emergency care medicine, Lorna was afraid to seek help out of fear it would irreparably damage the career she had spent her entire life building. Her death spurred global awareness, a movement, and national legislation, led in part by her sister and brother-in-law, to reduce burnout of health care professionals, safeguard their well-being, and restore joy to the healing professions. 

In this episode, we meet Jennifer and Corey Feist, co-founders of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation, US Senator Tim Kaine, co-sponsor of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, and nurse and researcher Christopher Friese, a national authority on the nursing workforce and healthcare workplace safety to learn about ending the culture of fear regarding seeking mental health support within healthcare, the urgent need for healthcare organizations to build cultures that protect our healers, the importance of making sure that our workforce feels valued and supported at work, and the need to take care of each other and the vulnerabilities that we all have.

Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com

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Resources

• 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
• World Suicide Prevention Day
• Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation
• Nurses at High Risk for Suicide: 'I Just Wanted All of It to Stop' - California Health Care Foundation
• Association of US Nurse and Physician Occupation With Risk of Suicide | JAMA Psychiatry | JAMA Network
• 10 Facts About Physician Suicide and Mental Health
• Study: Female Nurses Twice As Likely to Take Their Lives
• How Are Nurses Coping With the Covid Crisis? Beyond the Scenes | The Daily Show
• Staff shortages, COVID patients pushing hospitals to breaking point | 60 Minutes - CBS News
• Health-care Workers Battle Burnout as Omicron Surges: ‘It just rips your heart apart’
• American Nurses Foundation: COVID-19 Survey Series: Mental Health and Wellness
• Nurse Survey Spotlights Mental Health Difficulties During the Pandemic | MedPage Today
• US Senator Tim Kaine - Press Conference with Advocates & Frontline Physicians Urging Final Passage of His Bipartisan Bill to Promote Health Care Provider Mental Health
• ALL IN: WellBeing First for Healthcare
• Resilience on The Front Lines
• A Pragmatic Approach for Organizations to Measure Health Care Professional Well-Being - National Academy of Medicine
• Burn-out an "occupational phenomenon": International Classification of Diseases
• American Nurses Foundation: Well-Being Initiative
• Health Workers Facing COVID Stress Participating in Psychedelic Therapy Clinical Trial
• A Study of Psilocybin-assisted Psychotherapy for Clinicians with Symptoms of Depression and Burnout Related to Frontline Work in the COVID Pandemic
• Valid and Reliable Survey Instruments to Measure Burnout, Well-Being, and Other Work-Related Dimensions - National Academy of Medicine
• ANA Position Statement: Promoting Nurses’ Mental Health
• ANA Nurse Suicide Prevention/Resilience
• AMA Joy In Medicine Program
• Fifth Window: Self-care for nurses, by nurses
• Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) - Assessments, Tests | Mind Garden
• Crisis Text Line
• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention AFSP

This summer, SEE YOU NOW is on the road meeting new ideas and people and sharing stories about what we’ve experienced in a wide range of healthcare encounters. We’re taking you with us to the Aspen Ideas: Health conference to be part of a special evening of stories told from The Point of Care and introduce change makers Vanessa Broadhurst, Erica Plybeah, Jabraan Pasha, Ivelyse Andino, Ashlee Wisdom, Erin Athey, and AJ Johnson who deepen our understanding that what powers complex health systems and transforms lives are the humans, relationships, and moments of listening and share how entrepreneurs and innovators are making a world where everyone, everywhere, has access to quality healthcare.

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Resources

• Aspen Ideas: Health 2022
• The Point of Care: Stories from the Heart of Health
• Radical Health​
• Oasis Fresh Market​
• MedHaul​
• Health in Her HUE​
• Community Concierge Care​

Voting and Health. It's not a pairing that readily springs to mind, but increasingly, research and data demonstrate how this dynamic duo impact and amplify one another and dramatically shape community and individual health and access to care. On a daily basis, in every healthcare setting, health teams see the unhappy faces and stressful circumstances of failing health policies and the direct connection between voter access and the critical path to improving our health policies, reducing health inequities, and building healthier and representative democracies. With ballot measures and elections taking place throughout the country, we’re resharing this important conversation as part of the Civic Health Month and the nationwide effort to expand and normalize healthcare settings as community touchpoints for voter access and engagement and learning from the experiences and insights of three civic health innovators Nurse Elizabeth Cohn, Physician Alister Martin, and Community Organizer Aliya Bhatia who provide compelling evidence and data for why health is always on the ballot, and healthcare settings and healthcare professionals are particularly effective messengers and catalysts for voter engagement. Together, they have collectively created and built NursesWhoVote, Democracy at Discharge, Vot-ER, and the Healthy Democracy Kit and are key members of the Civic Health Conference.

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Resources

• Vot-ER and the Healthy Democracy Kit vot-er.org
• Nurses Who Vote https://nursesvote.org/
• Civic Health Month https://www.civichealthmonth.org/
• Civic Health Social Media Kit

  https://vot-er.org/civic-health-month/kit/?emci=3afab406-9312-ed11-bd6e-281878b83d8a&emdi=a6b9d838-e317-ed11-bd6e-281878b83d8a&ceid=7167698

• 2021 Civic Health Conference Presentations https://www.civichealthmonth.org/events#day1 
• Voting, health and interventions in healthcare settings: a scoping review https://publichealthreviews.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40985-020-00133-6
• We Can Boost Low Vaccination Rates The Same Way We Raise Voter Turnout https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2021/05/10/get-out-the-vote-covid-19-vaccine-david-velasquez-alister-martin 
• National Voter Registration Act https://www.justice.gov/crt/national-voter-registration-act-1993-nvra

This summer, SEE YOU NOW is on the road and part of the Aspen Ideas: Health conference. Bringing together an exceptional mix of experts, visionary thinkers, and innovative doers from across a range of disciplines and viewpoints, Aspen Ideas: Health is appreciated for stimulating, and sometimes provocative exchanges that turn ideas into action and chart pathways toward better health for all.
Building on the recognition that the health of one depends on the health of all, the well-being of our healthcare workforce -- specifically nurses -- took center stage at Aspen as a global priority. In an expert panel discussion led by SEE YOU NOW host and nurse Shawna Butler, we talk candidly about Healthcare in Critical Condition: Who Cares When Nurses Leave?

This expert panel highlighted the nursing crisis as a healthcare crisis – that without skilled, experienced, supported and empowered nurses, reliably safe and quality healthcare is at risk, with a disproportionate impact on rural America. The needs are urgent and action is non-negotiable – patient health and safety are on the line. Listen in to hear nurse and researcher Christopher Friese professor at the University of Michigan School of Nursing, nurse Karen Dale CEO, AmeriHealth Caritas District of Columbia, and emergency physician Christopher Barsotti Program Director, AFFIRM at The Aspen Institute, discuss opportunities, challenges and solutions to Healthcare’s Great Resignation.

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Resources

• Aspen Ideas: Health 2022
• Healthcare in Crisis: Who Cares When Nurses Leave? | Aspen Ideas: Health
• NurseHack4Health Pitch-A-Thon
• Hospitals Desperately Need Staff | Washington Post
• Hospitals Are In Serious Trouble | The Atlantic
• Characteristics of the U.S. Nursing Workforce with Patient Care Responsibilities: Resources for Epidemic and Pandemic Response
• More Nurses Consider Leaving Direct Patient Care | McKinsey & Company 
• A Worriesome Drop In The Number of Young Nurses | Health Affairs
• Fact Sheet: Health Care Workplace Violence and Intimidation, and the Need for a Federal Legislative Response
• Chronic hospital nurse understaffing meets COVID-19: an observational study
• Association of US Nurse and Physician Occupation With Risk of Suicide
• Retirement and succession of nursing faculty in 2016-2025
• 12 Months of Trauma: More Than 3,600 US Health Workers Died in Covid’s First Year
• Current Nursing Shortages Could Have Long-Lasting Consequences: Time to Change Our Present Course
• US Bureau of Health Workforce Data
• Association of US Nurse and Physician Occupation With Risk of Suicide | JAMA Psychiatry | JAMA Network
• 10 Facts About Physician Suicide and Mental Health
• Study: Female Nurses Twice As Likely to Take Their Lives
• How Are Nurses Coping With the Covid Crisis? Beyond the Scenes | The Daily Show
• Staff shortages, COVID patients pushing hospitals to breaking point | 60 Minutes - CBS News
• Health-care Workers Battle Burnout as Omicron Surges: ‘It just rips your heart apart’
• American Nurses Foundation: COVID-19 Survey Series: Mental Health and Wellness
• Nurse Survey Spotlights Mental Health Difficulties During the Pandemic | MedPage Today
• ALL IN: WellBeing First for Healthcare
• Resilience on The Front Lines
• A Pragmatic Approach for Organizations to Measure Health Care Professional Well-Being - National Academy of Medicine
• Burn-out an "occupational phenomenon": International Classification of Diseases
• American Nurses Foundation: Well-Being Initiative
• ANA Position Statement: Promoting Nurses’ Mental Health
• ANA Nurse Suicide Prevention/Resilience
• AMA Joy In Medicine Program

With our health and nursing workforce in crisis, the entire healthcare system is in critical condition. When experienced nurses leave the workforce substantial knowledge and skills gaps are created – and with the education pipeline choked by a lack of educators and funding, there are fewer and fewer new nurses to step in. When nurses leave, we aren’t just losing a set of scrubs in the unit – we’re losing highly specialized skills, institutional knowledge, clinical acumen, and advanced expertise gleaned over a career of caring for people. 

Part of rebuilding the nursing workforce must be an emphasis on specialty training, focused specifically on reversing the ‘brain drain’ created by attrition in the workforce. And to get there, nurses must be considered as the clinical experts they are, and their deep understanding of care must be acknowledged. In this episode, we hear the musings of nurses Leslie Oleck, president of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA), Linda Groah, the CEO/Executive Director of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), and April Kapu, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) about the unique value their specialties bring to the healthcare system as a whole. From reversing provider shortages by working at the top of licensure, to holding the holistic view of a patient during surgery, and integrating the mind and mental wellbeing into all areas and sites of healthcare, they illustrate the importance of nursing expertise across disciplines.

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Resources

• WHO: State of the World's Nursing 2020
  https://www.nursingcenter.com/ncblog/april-2020/who-state-of-the-worlds-nursing-2020
• American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA)
• Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
• American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)
• Why Specialize?
• Nursing Specialization: So Many Choices
• 20 Nursing Career Specialities
• What Are All The Types of Nursing?
• Which Nursing Specialty Is Right For You?
• The world could be short of 13 million nurses in 2030 - here's why
  https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/01/health-care-nurses-attrition-mental-health-burnout/
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Healthcare Outlook
  https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/home.htm

In this special edition of SEE YOU NOW, we’re honoring the national Juneteenth holiday. As a podcast focused on how nurse-led innovation is strengthening our healthcare systems and transforming lives, we’re marking Juneteeth with a health equity playlist to amplify and elevate the scholarship, innovation, leadership, and contributions of Black nurses toward building healthier communities, families, and experiences. While meaningful progress has been made in reducing health disparities, there remains so much more to do in our race toward health equity. We invite and urge you to listen, learn from, follow, engage, elevate, and cite Black nurses and their courageous and groundbreaking work and contributions to moving health equity forward. In this episode, you’ll hear a sampling of nurses who are innovating on the front lines of health equity. Click here to enjoy our full Juneteenth playlist.

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Honoring Juneteenth with SEE YOU NOW 

A playlist featuring and elevating nurses who are driving health equity forward

• 44. Way More Than a Health Plan
• 40. Counting on Faith
• 32. Bridges To Fatherhood
• 39. Real World Data. Real Life Results.
• 47. A Vote For Mom’s Health
• 31. Black Midwives & Matter Matter
• 38. Mentoring for a More Equitable Future
• 67. Nurses You Should Know
• 68. Frontline Forces: Vaccine Celebrity

Resources:

• What is Juneteenth? An interview with Scholar and Historian Lori Brooks 
• President Biden Signs Juneteenth Bill Creating a New Federal Holiday
• On Juneteenth. An interview with historian and award-winning author Annette Gordon Reed

Father's Day, observed in 100+ countries and in America on the third Sunday in June, celebrates and honors fatherhood and paternal bonds, as well as the influence of fathers in society. Fathers play a unique role in their children’s lives and development, and plenty of research backs up the importance of a father's presence. But when it comes to preparing for parenthood, the focus is heavily skewed to preparing mothers for motherhood. So how are fathers getting the support and training they need to be successful -- especially in this age of pandemic parenting? And how does this all come together with the additional challenge of being a father who isn’t living with their children? It's not easy. In this episode, we learn how nurse scientist and researcher Wrenetha Julion, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, CNL is innovating to build and bolster the involvement of African American fathers who live apart from their children through the Building Bridges to Fatherhood Program and through an exciting new Father Inclusive Prenatal Care program.

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Resources:

• Preparing for Parenthood: A Father Inclusive Model of Prenatal Care
• Opinion: It's time to help men become fathers by giving them the prenatal care they need
• Wrenetha Julion 2019 Keynote at NSNA Meeting
• The Chicago Parent Program
• Helping Young Fathers Across the Transition to Parenthood
• Fatherhood and Reproductive Health in the Antenatal Period: From Men’s Voices to Clinical Practice
• Fatherhood Matters
• National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse | US Dept of Health & Human Services
• Preparing for Fatherhood
• Supporting Fatherhood
• How to Dad
• Fathering Together
• Father-Inclusive Perinatal Parent Education Programs: A Systematic Review

In celebration of Pride Month, we’re returning to an earlier episode highlighting nurse practitioner and healthcare activist Dallas Ducar (she/her/hers), the CEO of Transhealth Northampton. People of all gender and sexual identities need and deserve respectful, affirming healthcare, and the work of Dallas and her team is essential in expanding access – and improving quality of life – for all.

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous, and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, rethink how healthcare is organized and where it’s delivered.

In this fourth of a multi-episode series centered on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report we take a close up look at how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed disparities in access to care that landed far more heavily on vulnerable communities. This is especially true for the Transgender community which has been uniquely affected by the pandemic in terms of access to gender-affirming care. We spend time with Nurse Practitioner and healthcare activist Dallas Ducar (she/her/hers), the CEO of Transhealth Northampton, and learn how their ground-breaking comprehensive care clinic delivers gender-affirming care to gender-diverse adults, children, and families. In this work, Dallas describes the ripple and compounding effects of discrimination, the impact of legislation on telehealth, the role of community-based participatory action research, and the ways that nurse-led innovation can be the playbook for healthier, experiences, outcomes, workplaces, and affirming care for all of us.

Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com.

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Resources

• Transhealth Northampton
• Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research and Highlights Johnson & Johnson, American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care - STAT
• Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: COVID-19 Care
• With More Freedom, A Nurse-Led Model for Healthcare is Gaining Ground During Pandemic
• ANA Position Statement: Nursing Advocacy for LGBTQ+ Populations
• Massive Study Confirms Telehealth Effective in Primary Care
• Telehealth Rollbacks Leave Patients Stranded, Some Doctors Say
• The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on LGBT People
• Human Rights Campaign: Transgender Resources
• Tips for Allies of Transgender People
• Toward a Uniform Classification of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Laws
• Why It’s Not A Labor Shortage
• Protecting and Advancing Health Care for Transgender Adult Communities

We're cheering on runners in the 2024 Boston Marathon this week by having another listen to our episode featuring Nurse Practitioner, elite runner, and Guinness World Record holder, Samantha Roecker, FNP. A competitive runner and nurse, she has a *track record* (pun intended) of breaking barriers and addressing stigmas, and for the 2022 Boston Marathon, she combined her passion for nursing and running into mental health advocacy and raising awareness for healthcare workforce well-being. Inspired by British nurse and marathon record holder, Jessica Anderson, Sam embarked on a bold goal – breaking the Guinness World Record for fastest marathon run in a nurse’s uniform and raising thousands of dollars to support nurse well-being. In this episode, we talk with Samantha about her record-breaking run, the impact stigma has on seeking mental health services and preventing people from reaching their potential, the power of nurse-specific mental health support, and the surprising overlap between nursing and competitive running.

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International Nurses Day is an important opportunity to check the pulse of nurses around the world, especially in 2022. Nurses have given their all in the response to pandemics, natural disasters, and in war zones, in leading mass COVID-19 testing and vaccination efforts, and in completely redesigning how and where care is delivered. The value of nurses has never been more clear. Nor could it be any clearer that not enough is being done to protect nurses and other health workers, tragically underscored by the more than 180,000 health worker deaths due to COVID-19 and the alarming increase of mental health conditions and concerns nurses report.  

COVID-19 has altered many nurses’ career plans – over the past two years, McKinsey & Company has found that worldwide, nurses consistently, and increasingly, report planning to leave the workforce at higher rates compared with the past decade. Those departures have profound implications for the health of citizens and systems everywhere. Indeed, the greatest threat to global health is the workforce shortage. 

As part of our Meeting of Minds series, we listen in as four McKinsey partners from their Healthcare Systems & Services practice discuss the results of a McKinsey & Company survey of frontline nurses across six countries including Brazil, France, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In this conversation we hear Gretchen Berlin, RN, Thomas London, MBA, Robin Roark, MD, MBA, and Senthu Arumugam, MBA explore the survey’s findings of why nurses are considering leaving their roles, what energizes them to keep going,  and how nurses around the world are eager to innovate and deliver care in different and better ways to solve what has become a consequential global problem.

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Resources

• Nurses: A Voice to Lead, https://www.icnvoicetolead.com/
• National Nurses Month
• Nurses and the Great Attrition
• Around the world nurses say meaningful work keeps them going 
• A Worriesome Drop in the Numbers of Young Nurses 
• The greatest threat to global health
• Why We Must Invest in Our Healthcare Workforce
• Assessing the lingering impact of COVID-19 on the nursing workforce
• Surveyed nurses consider leaving direct patient care at elevated rates
• Nursing in 2021: Retaining the healthcare workforce when we need it most
• International Center for Nurse Migration’s Sustain and Retain in 2022 and Beyond
• Increased workforce turnover and pressures straining provider operations
• Survey: US hospital patient volumes move back towards 2019 levels
• Policy Strategies for Addressing Current Threats to the U.S. Nursing Workforce
• Remote-Work Experts Are in Demand as Return to Office Begins Anew
• State of the world's nursing 2020: investing in education, jobs and leadership

Observed during May, National Nurses Month is a call-to-attention, action, and dedicated to highlighting the impact nurses have on people, communities, nations, and the planet. Given that May is also Mental Health Awareness Month, this year we’re particularly mindful of the impact that healthcare has had on nurses; of the specific challenges and dangers nurses have encountered, endured, and continue to endure; and the need to express our appreciation for nurses in terms of bold, urgent, system-level action, support, and investment. 

In this episode we learn how a health system’s leadership demonstrates their commitment to the wellbeing and flourishing of their team members; the rather unlikely story of nurses, singing, and stardom; and the surprising healing power of the arts. Special thanks to nurse and tenor singer Winnie Mele, RN, BSN, NE-BC, nurse and soprano singer Keshia Jaboin, RN, BSN, and Allison Lowenfeld from Northwell Health’s corporate marketing team for sharing their story, experience, and voices.

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Resources

• National Nurses Month
• Nurses: A Voice to Lead, https://www.icnvoicetolead.com/
• Mental Health Awareness Month
• Advancing the Science of Arts, Health & Wellbeing
• The Northwell Health Nurse Choir
• Northwell Health Nurse Choir’s journey to America's Got Talent
• America's Got Talent: Northwell Health Nurse Choir Audition 
• Northwell Health Nurse Choir on Instagram

The transformation of primary care is unfolding across the US within a new era of primary care clinics that have embraced technology and data and the power to anticipate and automate many of the front, mid, and back-office operations that stitch together a truly delightful primary care experience. Yet this wave of building new, transformational tech-enabled primary care clinics didn’t include building solutions to support existing clinics -- many of which are Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) located in under-resourced and rural communities and serving those insured by the public health insurance program Medicaid. Nearly 85 million people, half of which are children, are enrolled in Medicaid, making it the single largest insurer in the United States. 

In this episode, we meet nurse Cassie Choi and engineer Neil Batlivala, two mission-driven founders of the healthtech startup Pair Team, who built a remote, tech-enabled clinical team to provide virtual assistance and automation of clinical operations, care coordination, and outreach activities -- so onsite primary care teams can build trust and focus on what really matters: people, relationships, and health. Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com

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Resources

• Pair Team
• Startup 'Pair Team' Bolsters Work of Community Health Centers | Healthcare Innovation
• As a nurse she saw the problems of US healthcare. Her startup heals them. - News @ Northeastern.
• Neil Batlivala, Pair Team, On Putting Primary Care Operations On Autopilot | Wharton Digital Health
• Transforming Primary Care -- We Get What We Pay For | NEJM
• A Vision For Primary Health Care in the 21st Century | WHO
• What is Medicaid’s Value? | The Commonwealth Fund
• Transforming Primary Care And Achieving Digital Health Equity For Under Resourced Populations | Health Affairs
• Analysis of Recent National Trends in Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment
• Medicaid Enrollment Data
• Neil Batlivala, Pair Team, On Putting Primary Care Operations On Autopilot

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we’re returning to an earlier episode to elevate the trailblazers of TODAY and ask what the preferred experience of health and design of health systems looks like when we center on the experiences and expertise of the women in nursing who lead the way. 

According to a CDC report, during the first year of the pandemic in 2020, the number of women in the United States who died during pregnancy or shortly after giving birth increased sharply. 

And while the pandemic has exacerbated it, the maternal mortality crisis was an issue long before COVID, one that disproportionately impacts Black women. U.S. maternal death is the highest in the developed world, and this preventable trend, despite our awareness, continues to worsen. 

It's in this light that we return to one of our first, and timeless episodes, Empowering Childbirth and the story of nurse-midwife and maternal and child health pioneer, innovator, and activist Ruth Lubic.

Vigorous at 95, Lubic continues six decades of a movement to improve health, experiences, and outcomes for mothers, children and families. At its core, her work, innovation, and commitment is to address health inequities and ensure the safety and dignity of everyone who gives birth.

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Episode Resources

• The Worsening U.S. Maternal Health Crisis in Three Graphs | The Century Foundation
• "Go to Ruth's House": The Social Activism of Ruth Lubic and the Family Health and Birth Center
• Maternal Deaths Rose During the First Year of the Pandemic | New York Times
• The Pandemic Is Making America's Maternal Mortality Rate Worse | NPR
• Black Maternal Health Caucus
• Relationship Between Hospital-Level Percentage of Midwife-Attended Births and Obstetric Procedure Utilization
• The U.S. Needs More Midwives for Better Maternity Care | Scientific America
• TIME Women of The Year 2022 | Jennie Joseph Wants to Fix the Black Maternal Mortality Crisis One Midwife at a Time
• Midwives Are Growing in Popularity. Here’s What You Need to Know. | Healthline
• U.S. Midwife Workforce Far Behind Globally | Statista
• Birth By The Numbers: International Data
• Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2020
• Principles for a Successful Professional Life by Ruth Watson Lubic 
• World Health Organization (WHO), Health Topics, Midwifery  
• Oral History Interview with Ruth Watson Lubic | Columbia University Libraries

The delivery of commercial COVID-19 vaccines in less than a year is nothing short of miraculous and was made possible by Operation Warp Speed -- a historic public-private partnership initiated and coordinated by the United States government. While other medical moonshots and breakthroughs have been achieved, few have occurred with the speed and success of developing the COVID-19 vaccines.

December 14, 2020 -- just seven months after announcing Operation Warp Speed -- was the first day the COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the US and those on the frontlines of health care were among the first in this historic and unprecedented mass vaccination effort to receive them. 

Along with her colleagues from Northwell Health's Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens New York, critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay unhesitatingly and voluntarily rolled up her sleeve and got her COVID-19 shot in the company of dozens of her colleagues, hospital leadership -- and cameras -- not realizing or planning she'd become the first person in the US to receive it. Within minutes, the now-iconic images and video footage of her receiving a COVID-19 jab administered by fellow nurse Michelle Chester, DNP began circulating in media outlets around the globe and along with it a high-profile opportunity to reach others, inspire them, and build their vaccine confidence.

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Episode Guest

Sandra Lindsay, DHSc, MS, MBA, RN, CCRN-K, NE-BC

Resources

• Explaining Operation Warp Speed Fact Sheet, https://www.nihb.org/covid-19/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Fact-sheet-operation-warp-speed.pdf
• What Healthcare Can Learn From Operation Warp Speed
• From the Factory to the Frontlines
• ‘I Trust Science,’ Says Nurse Who Is First to Get Vaccine in US
• The beginning of the end for COVID: Northwell’s Director of Employee Health Services, Michelle Chester, DNP, discusses the COVID-19 vaccine's significance in ending the pandemic
• First Covid shot recipient in US is now a vaccine activist
• Sandra Lindsay Honored by President Biden at White House Ceremony
• Sandra Lindsay got the first US COVID jab. Here's her secret to motivate others
• Smith­sonian Obtains Vial from First US COVID-19 Vaccine Dose

SEE YOU NOW has always focused on the incredible stories of nurse-led health innovation and we’re pleased to introduce a new series -- Frontline Forces documenting the pandemic response of frontline nurses to the overwhelming challenges and uncertainty and the changing nature of nursing in the midst of evolving circumstances nurses are facing at this point in the pandemic.

School nurses are on the frontlines of community and public health. They play a critical role in the health, wellbeing, and readiness to learn for children around the world. And today --they are guiding schools, families, local officials, and public health departments through a global pandemic unlike anything seen in the past 100 years. Yet even before the pandemic school nurses were overtasked, under-resourced, and hard to find.

Despite recommendations from The American Academy of Pediatrics and the National School Nurses Association of having at least one registered nurse in every school, fewer than 40% of American public schools have a full-time nurse. COVID-19 has magnified the contribution of school nurses and the need for every student to have access to school nurses and each school district to have a fully funded, comprehensive health services program.

We checked in with school nurse Liz Pray, MSN-Ed, RN, NCSN in Washington State to learn about the role of a school nurse during a pandemic, how she is experiencing this moment, learning from and gaining strength from the support of her national school nursing community, and why school nurses are more important and essential than ever.

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Resources

• School nursing in America--1902-1994: a return to public health nursing
• School Nurse Shortage Named a ‘National Crisis’
• Framework for 21st Century School Nursing Practice
• WA Details of the governor’s 2022 supplemental budget
• School Nurse Deficit Deepens as States Seek Relief
• School Nurse Workforce Study
• School Nurses Adapting and Innovating in Response to COVID-19

Throughout 2022, we’ll bring you stories that speak to the current state of the healthcare workforce and the urgent need to PROTECT AND SUPPORT NURSES; design safe, healthy work environments and cultures that attract, value, empower, add diversity to, and advance nurses.

In 2022 we’ll point you to experts, innovators, catalysts, artists, tools, resources, and more to increase well-being, mental fitness, clinical excellence, and joy in the work of improving health and saving lives. Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com

On April 26, 2020 as New York City was reeling from the first, unrelenting wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the US, Dr. Lorna Breen died by suicide. Dr. Breen spent the three weeks before her death recovering from her own COVID-19 infection, working a nearly unbroken string of 12-16 hour shifts treating COVID-19 patients—often without adequate supplies, PPE, and support—all while being exposed to an unfathomable amount of death and human misery. Despite being aware of and having published on the risks and phenomenon of burnout in emergency care medicine, Lorna was afraid to seek help out of fear it would irreparably damage the career she had spent her entire life building. Her death spurred global awareness, a movement, and national legislation, led in part by her sister and brother-in-law, to reduce burnout of health care professionals, safeguard their well-being, and restore joy to the healing professions.

In this episode we meet Jennifer and Corey Feist, co-founders of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation, US Senator Tim Kaine, co-sponsor of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, and nurse and researcher Christopher Friese, a national authority on the nursing workforce and healthcare workplace safety to learn about ending the culture of fear regarding seeking mental health support within healthcare, the urgent need for healthcare organizations to build cultures that protect our healers, the importance of making sure that our workforces feels valued and supported at work, and the need to take care of each other and the vulnerabilities that we all have. If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800.273.TALK (8255). It’s confidential and available 24/7.

Guests
U.S. Senator Tim Kaine
J.Corey Feist, JD, MBA, CEO Lorna Breen Foundation
Christopher Friese, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN

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Resources

• Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation
• Nurses at High Risk for Suicide: 'I Just Wanted All of It to Stop' - California Health Care Foundation
• Association of US Nurse and Physician Occupation With Risk of Suicide | JAMA Psychiatry | JAMA Network
• 10 Facts About Physician Suicide and Mental Health
• Study: Female Nurses Twice As Likely to Take Their Lives
• How Are Nurses Coping With the Covid Crisis? Beyond the Scenes | The Daily Show
• Staff shortages, COVID patients pushing hospitals to breaking point | 60 Minutes - CBS News
• Health-care Workers Battle Burnout as Omicron Surges: ‘It just rips your heart apart’
• American Nurses Foundation: COVID-19 Survey Series: Mental Health and Wellness
• Nurse Survey Spotlights Mental Health Difficulties During the Pandemic | MedPage Today
• US Senator Tim Kaine - Press Conference with Advocates & Frontline Physicians Urging Final Passage of His Bipartisan Bill to Promote Health Care Provider Mental Health
• ALL IN: WellBeing First for Healthcare
• Resilience on The Front Lines
• A Pragmatic Approach for Organizations to Measure Health Care Professional Well-Being - National Academy of Medicine
• Burn-out an "occupational phenomenon": International Classification of Diseases
• American Nurses Foundation: Well-Being Initiative
• Health Workers Facing COVID Stress Participating in Psychedelic Therapy Clinical Trial
• A Study of Psilocybin-assisted Psychotherapy for Clinicians with Symptoms of Depression and Burnout Related to Frontline Work in the COVID Pandemic
• Valid and Reliable Survey Instruments to Measure Burnout, Well-Being, and Other Work-Related Dimensions - National Academy of Medicine
• ANA Position Statement: Promoting Nurses’ Mental Health
• ANA Nurse Suicide Prevention/Resilience
• AMA Joy In Medicine Program
• Fifth Window: Self-care for nurses, by nurses
• Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) - Assessments, Tests | Mind Garden
• Crisis Text Line
• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention AFSP

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous, and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, rethink how healthcare is organized and where it’s delivered.

In the final edition of our multi-episode series centered on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report we have a heart-to-heart with Nurse executive Julie Kennedy Oehlert, Chief Experience Officer at Vidant Health in rural eastern North Carolina. Sitting near the center of non-traditional organizational hierarchy with a ‘most pit vibe’, Julie describes the importance of pushing a lot of care and resources and health needs deep into the region when working in a rural setting, why that same setting means that your team members may also be your patients, and how building a new organizational hierarchy based on love is key in helping health care providers reach people in low-trust communities. In moving her organization to a culture of love and empathy, Julie is able to emphasize the importance of trust in innovation while reinforcing the resilience of Vidant’s nurses and health care providers at the onset of the pandemic. Because health care is not a transaction, it is a relationship, and love has everything to do with it. 

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Resources

• Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research and Highlights Johnson & Johnson, American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care - STAT
• What’s Love Got To Do With It?
• Vidant Health: Changing Healthcare From the Inside Out
• Watch: How Design Thinking Revolutionized Nurse Retention at Vidant Health
• Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: COVID-19 Care
• Could the Great Resignation Help Workers? Take a Look at History.
• Nurses Rise To The Challenge Every Day
• Johnson & Johnson: Our Commitment to Nurses
• From Triple to Quadruple Aim: Care of the Patient Requires Care of the Provider

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous, and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, rethink how healthcare is organized and where it’s delivered.

In this fourth of a multi-episode series centered on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report we take a close up look at how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed disparities in access to care that landed far more heavily on vulnerable communities. This is especially true for the Transgender community which has been uniquely affected by the pandemic in terms of access to gender-affirming care. We spend time with Nurse Practitioner and healthcare activist Dallas Ducar (she/her/hers), the CEO of Transhealth Northampton, and learn how their ground-breaking comprehensive care clinic delivers gender-affirming care to gender-diverse adults, children, and families. In this work, Dallas describes the ripple and compounding effects of discrimination, the impact of legislation on telehealth, the role of community-based participatory action research, and the ways that nurse-led innovation can be the playbook for healthier, experiences, outcomes, workplaces, and affirming care for all of us.

Listen here

Resources

• Transhealth Northampton
• Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research and Highlights Johnson & Johnson, American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care - STAT
• Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: COVID-19 Care
• With More Freedom, A Nurse-Led Model for Healthcare is Gaining Ground During Pandemic
• ANA Position Statement: Nursing Advocacy for LGBTQ+ Populations
• Massive Study Confirms Telehealth Effective in Primary Care
• Telehealth Rollbacks Leave Patients Stranded, Some Doctors Say
• The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on LGBT People
• Human Rights Campaign: Transgender Resources
• Tips for Allies of Transgender People
• Toward a Uniform Classification of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Laws
• Why It’s Not A Labor Shortage
• Protecting and Advancing Health Care for Transgender Adult Communities

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous, and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, rethink how healthcare is organized and where it’s delivered.

Moved by the unprecedented stress and strain on nurses and our health systems, Johnson & Johnson, in partnership with the American Nurses Association and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, set out to understand the various ways that the nursing profession evolved amidst the pandemic. From the stories and data emerged the pointed Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report -- one that offers a deeper understanding on how the pandemic transformed nursing practice and how the momentum of these innovations can steer us to a much better and preferred future of the profession.

In this third of a multi-episode series centered on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report, we go for a checkup on retail health clinics with Angela Patterson, the Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer at CVS MinuteClinic to learn how the teams at MinuteClinic worked with a variety of partners to deliver care throughout the pandemic to communities across the US when health systems around the country experienced high levels of disruption. Throughout this public health crisis, the MinuteClinic teams continued and evolved their established care services, and as their patients’ needs changed and the public health crisis escalated, their teams took bold, innovative leaps to ensure the safety and well being of their clinical teams, deliver on the urgent need for convenient COVID testing, and play a transformative role in the enormous logistics challenge of swiftly mobilizing teams to vaccinate millions of people across the nation with the new COVID vaccines.

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Resources

• Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: COVID-19 Care
• CVS Minute Clinic
• With More Freedom, A Nurse-Led Model for Healthcare is Gaining Ground During Pandemic
• CVS Health, Microsoft Partner To Bring ‘Digital First’ Care To Customers
• Why Providers Chose MinuteClinic
• ‘Protect and Invest’: WHO Calls For 6m More Nurses Worldwide
• World Health Organization’s State of the World’s Nursing Report - 2020
• America Stopped Treating Healthcare Workers Like Heroes
• Effective Decision-Making During the Pandemic
• Toward a Uniform Classification of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Laws

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous, and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, rethink how healthcare is organized, and where it’s delivered.

Moved by the unprecedented stress and strain on nurses and our health systems, Johnson & Johnson, in partnership with the American Nurses Association and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, set out to understand the various ways that the nursing profession evolved amidst the pandemic. From the stories and data emerged the pointed Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report -- one that offers a deeper understanding on how the pandemic transformed nursing practice and how the momentum of these innovations can steer us to a much better and preferred future of the profession.

In this second of a multi-episode series centered on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report we go behind the scenes on a “listening adventure” and hear how the pandemic changed people’s access to care, their care needs, and the impact on the well-being of the healthcare workforce, and learn through thought-provoking stories, experiences, and fine details how three nurse changemakers are weaving the needed innovations into their organizations, care delivery, and workforce to Accelerate Nursing and Transform Healthcare.

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Resources

• Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research and Highlights Johnson & Johnson, American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care - STAT
• Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: COVID-19 Care
• Vidant Health: Changing Healthcare From the Inside Out
• Creating Workplace Equity to Achieve Health Equity
• Transhealth Northampton
• CVS Minute Clinics

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous, and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, rethink how healthcare is organized, and where it’s delivered. 

Moved by the unprecedented stress and strain on nurses and our health systems, Johnson & Johnson, in partnership with the American Nurses Association and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, set out to understand the various ways that the nursing profession evolved amidst the pandemic. From the stories and data emerged the pointed Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report -- one that offers a deeper understanding on how the pandemic transformed nursing practice and how the momentum of these innovations can steer us to a much better and preferred future of the profession.

In this first of a multi episode series, we center on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Report and how it coincides with the National Academy of Medicine’s Future of Nursing Reports, and The Future Today Institute’s Tech Trends Report to serve as relevant, actionable playbooks for reducing uncertainty, managing complexity, and building on the momentum of positive change emerging from the COVID pandemic to accelerate nursing and transform healthcare.

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Resources

• Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research and Highlights Johnson & Johnson, American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• The Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity
• The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health  (2010-2020)
• Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care - STAT
• The Future Today Institute 
• 2021 Tech Trends Report
• Amy Webb: Emerging Tech Trends Report/SXSW Live Studio
• Open Source Foresight Frameworks and Tools
• The Future of Healthcare Lies With Nurses
• How Do We Keep The Nursing Shortage From Getting Worse?
• Trust Us. Nurses Are at a Breaking Point

Vaccines and vaccination—they’ve become one of the hottest topics of public discourse. Indeed, the Oxford Languages 2021 Word of the Year is Vax. As their pun-filled news release notes, "more than any other word, 'vax' has injected itself into the bloodstream of the English language in 2021.” With regulatory approval of a COVID vaccine for kids ages 5-11, COVID boosters for adults 65 and older and those at a higher risk for COVID, and the World Health Organization recommending widespread use of a long-awaited malaria vaccine for children, there is much vaccine progress and science to celebrate and understand.

In this episode, we check in with Melody Butler, BSN, RN, CIC, the Founder and Executive Director of Nurses Who Vaccinate, to get an update on how she and nurses around the world are responding, mobilizing, and innovating our vaccination efforts, messaging, and communication strategies. This conversation is particularly relevant at a time when an explosion of misinformation is fueling vaccine hesitancy and children and adults around the world need to catch up on all their life-saving vaccinations.

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Resources

• Vaccines.gov
• Nurses Who Vaccinate
• CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
• Medical groups call for mandatory vaccination of U.S. health care workers
• Joint Statement in Support of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for All Workers in Health and Long-Term Care
• Past Pandemics Remind Us, COVID Will Be an Era, Not a Crisis That Fades
• Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows
• The Disinformation Dozen
• The Right (and wrong) Way To Talk To People About Getting Vaccinated
• Nurse Leader Shares Five Lessons on Breaking Down Barriers to Vaccination
• Vaccine Conversations Go Door-to-Door, One Neighbor At a Time
• Nurse Practitioner Tarik Khan Races to Deliver Vaccines to The Homebound
• Medical groups call for mandatory vaccination of U.S. health care workers
• Joint Statement in Support of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for All Workers in Health and Long-Term Care
• Vaccine Confidence Project
• The COVID Project
• KFF Covid-19 Vaccine Monitor
• World Health Organization Immunization Dashboard
• COVID Vaccine Facts For Nurses - https://covidvaccinefacts4nurses.org/
• ANA Position Statement on Immunizations

Hackathons provide a fast-paced, high energy, community-building opportunity for a wide spectrum of participants to flex their innovation muscles and solve for some of today’s greatest challenges. While these events have traditionally been geared towards computer scientists and software developers in recent years nurses, clinicians, and health innovators have started to convene health-challenge inspired events. Today the health hackathon landscape is exciting, rapidly evolving, and nurses are playing a lead role in driving them. In this episode, we learn from health influencers, hackers, and innovators Jane Sarashon-Kahn, MA, MHSA; Chris Recinos, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, NEA-BC; Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, BSN ‘21, and Jennifferre Mancillas, BSN, RN, RNC-NIC about how hackathons have impacted their thinking, skills, lives, career trajectory, as well as the landscape of innovative health solutions and products. And — why you should register for one at NurseHack4Health.org.

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Resources:

• Nurse Hack 4 Health
  https://nursehack4health.org/
• Nurse Innovation Hackathon Skills and Resources
  https://nursing.jnj.com/nurse-innovation-hackathons
• Nurse Innovation 101 Hub
  https://nursing.jnj.com/innovation-101
• The Lumify Care Story: The Impact of a Nurse Hackathon (video)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq3eUJ9CJQw
• HealthPopuli -- A blog covering the health/care ecosystem and people by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
  https://www.healthpopuli.com/
• Lumify Care
  www.lumifycare.com
• HealthConsuming -- From Health Consumer to Health Citizen by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHGMaq6ed5A
• #NurseHack4Health​: Pandemic Management Improving Education & Communication (video)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaeDotGVmb8&list=UU_rR0WAr4gUQY6s-pAvmIHA&index=7

People newly diagnosed and living with chronic conditions increasingly turn to technology, the internet and social media seeking information and education, to share clinical information and the latest research, to receive and provide support, and to share solutions and resources. In the spirit of “meeting people where they are,” clinicians are following and joining patients in these social spaces, learning a lot -- and together -- are improving health.
In this episode we hear how Nurse Practitioner Michelle Litchman, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP, FADCES, FAAN practices and innovates at the intersection of diabetes, digital health, and disparities. Searching digital spaces, online resources and communities she discovers the specific needs and pain points that patients and families are experiencing. Her work to better assess and address the many dimensions of access and accessibility led to an awareness and understanding of why people with diabetes are foregoing basic needs and taking part in "life exchanges'' of trading of insulin and medical supplies just to stay healthy, and to the subsequent passage of legislation offering an important lifeline to those who depend on insulin to survive. In her research and innovation, she shares the value of collaborating with citizen scientists so the patients’ story and experience are reflected in the research, policies, and solutions.

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Resources

• The Fakebetes Challenge
• Social Media and Diabetes: Can Facebook and Skype Improve Glucose Control in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes on Pump Therapy? One-Year Experience
• Why Diabetes Patients Are Getting Insulin From Facebook
• “Everyone Included” Social Media Research Challenge
• Diabetes Program Accessibility for People Who Are Deaf
• U of U Health Expert Aids Passage of Diabetes Legislation
• Why #WeAreNotWaiting—Motivations and Self-Reported Outcomes Among Users of Open-source Automated Insulin Delivery Systems: Multinational Survey

Our lives can become governed by routines. So much so that little changes—like a detour on the way to work, or an unexpected phone call—can have unimaginable consequences. Maria Striemer, RN, BA, was in the emergency department when she treated a child accidentally left in a car from heat exhaustion. Unable to leave the experience behind, Maria began a journey that was anything but routine. She and her engineer husband worked to develop Backseet Buddy, a sensor that uses a Bluetooth connected app to detect when a phone has moved more than 50 meters from a car seat and sends a phone alert. Along the way, she contended with negative feedback, setbacks, and a global pandemic that put Backseet Buddy on-hold. This inspired an awareness campaign, and an entirely new product that protects the ears of frontline workers forced to wear masks for extended periods of time. In this Moment of Awareness, Maria’s experience developing the Backseet Buddy is emblematic of her nursing career: using collaboration to build, often from the bottom up, novel ways to keep people safe.

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Resources

• Keeping Kids Safe. Facts from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• KidsAndCars.org 
  An advocacy center that conducts research on car-related dangers surrounding children
• Backseet Buddy:
  https://www.backseetbuddy.com/
• Nurse Invents Phone App to Support Child Car Safety
  https://nursing.jnj.com/nursing-news-events/nurses-leading-innovation/nurse-invents-phone-app-to-support-child-car-safety
• Save The Ears Campaign:
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/645497586269455/

Necessity is often cited as the Mother of Invention. And, nurses who have been part of the inventing process share that exasperation, empathy, and determination are members of the same family. While caring for a patient in an interventional radiology lab and witnessing the exasperation on a patient’s face while struggling to secure a fluid-filled leg bag, nurse and inventor Brian Mohika, RN, BSN, was inspired to create smart, active-living underwear designed to secure catheters and fluid collection bags. He knew people needed solutions that were practical, comfortable, washable, discreet, and liberating. Brian stated, “it is about more than just selling a medical product. It’s about improving lives and returning people to actively living theirs." In this Moment of Awareness, Brian shares his invention story and the motivation and audacity required to bring the vision. 

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Resources

• https://cathwear.com/
• From Inventor to Entrepreneur: Inspiring Lessons from Nurse Brian Mohika
  https://nursing.jnj.com/nursing-news-events/nurses-leading-innovation/from-inventor-to-entrepreneur-inspiring-lessons-from-nurse-brian-mohika
• Let it Flow: One Nurse's Entrepreneurial Journey by Brian Mohika, BSN, RN, CEO
  https://www.proquest.com/docview/2534659383

This Episode Won A 2021 "Bronze" Digital Health Awards® 

Voting and Health. It's not a pairing that readily springs to mind, but the COVID pandemic, for many reasons, placed a magnifying glass on this important duo and how they impact and amplify one another and dramatically shape community health. A growing body of research confirms that the root and distribution of many diseases start with a lack of equitable, prevention-oriented policies. On a daily basis, in every healthcare setting, health teams see the unhappy faces and stressful circumstances of failing health policies and the direct connection between voter access and the critical path to improving our health policies, reducing health inequities, and building healthier and representative democracies. In this episode, as part of the growing Civic Health movement and its nationwide effort to expand and normalize healthcare settings as community touchpoints for voter access and engagement, we’re taking a closer listen to the experiences and insights of three civic health innovators. Our guests are Elizabeth Cohn RN,NP,PhD; Alistair Martin MD, MPP; and Aliya Bhatia MPP who provide compelling evidence and data for why healthcare settings and healthcare professionals are particularly effective messengers and catalysts for voter engagement. Together, they have collectively created and built NursesWhoVote, Democracy at Discharge, Vot-ER, and the Healthy Democracy Kit.

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Resources

• Vot-ER and the Healthy Democracy Kit vot-er.org
• Nurses Who Vote https://nursesvote.org/
• Civic Health Month https://www.civichealthmonth.org/
• 2021 Civic Health Conference Presentations https://www.civichealthmonth.org/events#day1 
• Voting, health and interventions in healthcare settings: a scoping review https://publichealthreviews.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40985-020-00133-6
• We Can Boost Low Vaccination Rates The Same Way We Raise Voter Turnout https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2021/05/10/get-out-the-vote-covid-19-vaccine-david-velasquez-alister-martin 
• National Voter Registration Act https://www.justice.gov/crt/national-voter-registration-act-1993-nvra

As we wrap up Season 5 and roll into our summer break, we’re catching our breath from a busy few months exploring, celebrating, and innovating that included elevating National Nurses Month, issuing a call to action for nurses around the world to join the NurseHack4Health, getting an update on the global Nursing Now Campaign as it transitions to the Nursing Now Challenge, introducing a special series Meeting of Minds, and having three SEE YOU NOW episodes selected as finalists in the ShareCare Awards that recognize best-in-class productions promoting well-being and capturing the spirit of "sharing care." Season 5 also included remarkable storytelling of how nurses are innovating on truly gargantuan health challenges like our staggering mental health crisis, Black maternal health in the US, the care needs of older adults around the planet, AND the health of our planet. With the summer sun stretching our days longer, it’s a perfect opportunity for reflecting on what we’ve heard, learned, and experienced so we’ve created a summer listen-list to fill your ears and imagination with great ideas, innovations, and inspiration to enjoy and share. Throughout the summer we have some hot features coming your way so stay tuned! Our next season launches in October and while the team is busy in the production studio, we encourage you to enjoy our library of episodes, take a moment to rate and review the podcast, and share it with others. Good health is a team sport and the more fans we have, the healthier we’ll all be.

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In this special edition of SEE YOU NOW, we’re honoring our very first national Juneteenth holiday. As a podcast focused on how nurse-led innovation is strengthening our healthcare systems and transforming lives, we’re marking this historic moment with a health equity playlist to amplify and elevate the scholarship, innovation, leadership, and contributions of Black nurses toward building healthier communities, families, and experiences. While meaningful progress has been made in reducing health disparities, there remains so much more to do in our race toward health equity. We invite and urge you to listen, learn from, follow, engage, elevate, and cite Black nurses and their courageous and groundbreaking work and contributions to moving health equity forward. In this episode, you’ll hear a sampling of nurses who are innovating on the front lines of health equity. Click here to enjoy our full Juneteenth playlist.

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Honoring Juneteenth with SEE YOU NOW. Below are additional episodes featuring and elevating nurses who are driving health equity forward:

• 44. Way More Than a Health Plan
• 40. Counting on Faith
• 32. Bridges To Fatherhood
• 39. Real World Data. Real Life Results
• 47. A Vote For Mom’s Health
• 31. Black Midwives & Matter Matter
• 38. Mentoring for a More Equitable Future

Issac Asimov believed robots could have a true humanizing influence, and one day do the work to make life easier, freeing us to do the work that makes life worthwhile. For many nurses, caring for patients is that worthwhile work. However, studies have shown that roughly 30 percent of a nursing shift is devoted to patient care, with the rest given over to other tasks like finding medications, tracking down equipment, tracking down supplies, and documentation. So the question is, how can we give time back to nurses, so they can put patients—and themselves—first? It’s an urgent question, as the demands and pressures for health care efficiency continue to rise, while experienced nurses retire, nursing schools struggle to expand capacity, and the COVID pandemic stretches staffing to extreme limits. Enter Moxi, a robot—and patient selfie favorite—designed to help nurses complete routine, non-patient facing tasks. In this episode of Meeting of Minds, David Marshall, JD, DNP, RN, FAAN, senior vice president and chief nursing executive at Cedars Sinai and renowned social robotics expert, and Andrea Thomaz, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Diligent Robotics, sit down to discuss how nurses can lead interdisciplinary collaboration, the important role chief nursing officers can play in encouraging staff innovation, and the need for nurses to practice at the top of their license. At the center of their discussion is Moxi, a piece of technology designed to assist but never replace the priceless value and human interaction that nurses bring to patient care. Together, David, Andrea, and Moxi are proving that Nurse Robot Assistants can help reduce nurse fatigue and give nurses time back to care for patients, practice self-care, and focus on the big picture. Because no matter how advanced they become, robots don't take care of people. People take care of people.

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Resources:

• David Marshall Bio https://www.cedars-sinai.org/about/leadership/david-marshall-jd-dnp-rn-faan.html
• Andrea Thomaz Bio https://www.diligentrobots.com/andrea-thomaz
• Moxi https://www.diligentrobots.com/moxi
• Robotics and the Impact on Nursing Practice https://www.nursingworld.org/~494055/globalassets/innovation/robotics-and-the-impact-on-nursing-practice_print_12-2-2020-pdf-1.pdf

​This Episode Won A 2021 "Bronze" Digital Health Awards® 

The health of our planet is in serious condition. Climate change is anticipated to result in increasingly warmer global temperatures, more extreme weather events, and rising sea levels. Without accelerated intervention and broad scale innovation across all economic sectors, we face devastating effects on global water and food supplies, critical infrastructure and supply chains, physical and mental health, and a less certain future. Understanding the impacts of climate change on human health is vitally important for the global population. You can’t have healthy people without a healthy environment: something that health professionals today increasingly understand. Just as nurses are skilled at turning around a health crisis that humans can experience -- they’re also well trained and ideally positioned for addressing the critical condition of our planet. In this episode we meet Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director of Planetary Health for the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota to learn how nurses can and are reducing greenhouse emissions, find out why educating girls is key to a healthier planet, and discover who the best intergenerational storytellers are for helping us understand our relationship to and stewardship of the planet and where to innovate to improve its health.

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Resources:

• Teddie Potter
  https://www.nursing.umn.edu/bio/faculty-staff/teddie-potter
• Planetary Health Alliance
  https://www.planetaryhealthalliance.org/
• Project Drawdown
  https://drawdown.org/
  https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/women-and-girls/educating-girls
• Alliance of Nurses For Health Environments
  https://envirn.org/
• Nurses Drawdown
  https://www.nursesdrawdown.org/
• Want to Fight Climate Change? Educate A Girl.
  https://ideas.ted.com/want-to-fight-climate-change-educate-a-girl/

A common stereotype of aging is an era of decline and shrinking horizons. The reality is far more nuanced. The process of aging isn’t uniform and many will find their health and functional trajectories widening as they get older. In fact some, like President Joe Biden or pioneering nurse-midwife Ruth Lubic, won’t make their greatest contributions until their later years. A key to healthy aging is maintaining or improving your health, which for our oldest adults, largely falls outside of healthcare facilities. For many, health allows us to feel safe wherever we are. Led by Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN, the CAPABLE (Community Aging in Place—Advancing Better Living for Elders) program aims to improve both the function and cost of elderly care, by teaming a nurse, an occupational therapist and a handy worker to address the home environment, while encouraging the strengths of the older adults themselves to improve safety, independence, and ensuring dignity based on the client’s goals. By installing small, cost effective yet thoughtful adaptations to the home environment, older adults can ease the navigation of activities of daily living—things like bathing, dressing, standing to cook, moving up and down stairs—that sustain and promote their physical, mental, and emotional energy—leading to richer lives full of creativity and meaningful contribution. Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com. For additional resources, visit our website at www.seeyounowpodcast.com. 

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Resources:

• Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN - https://nursing.jhu.edu/faculty_research/faculty/faculty-directory/sarah-szanton
• CAPABLE - https://nursing.jhu.edu/faculty_research/research/projects/capable/
• Older Americans Month 2021 - OAM 2021 | ACL Administration for Community Living
• Videos of CAPABLE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVTQnb9WaRo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Cb7iFVO1Y
• Many Older Adults Lack Even Simple, Helpful Equipment - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/23/health/elderly-medical-equipment.html?smid=em-share
• Effect of a Biobehavioral Environmental Approach on Disability Among Low-Income Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30615024/

How do you build, staff, and stand up an online psychiatry and therapy office over the course of 45 days? And in a pandemic, no less? For Lavender founders and seasoned entrepreneurs Pritma Dhillon Chattha, DNP MHA RN and Brighid Gannon, DNP, PMHNP-BC it was experiencing first-hand how the pandemic was moving every aspect of our lives online at lightning speed; hearing from colleagues seeking mental health support the countless difficulties they encountered navigating and accessing services; and having the business skills and entrepreneurial experience to seize the moment to design and deliver much needed innovation in the psychiatric care. Pritma and Brighid are making mental healthcare more affordable and accessible by bringing business operation tools that may not be innovative in other industries into mental health services. And while the headline of this story is innovating in mental health services delivery, an equally remarkable headline is how their workforce and workplace innovation is reducing the stigma of seeking care through private on-line therapy, and increasing the availability of mental health professionals while offering providers the work flexibility they need to do so.

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Resources:

• Mental Health, Substance Use, and Suicidal Ideation During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, June 24–30, 2020 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6932a1.htm?s_cid=mm6932a1_w 
• Health plan adds more than 400 mental health clinicians to network to help meet demand https://www.bcbs.com/press-releases/blue-cross-blue-shield-of-massachusetts-processes-1-million-telehealth-claims-9 
• Lavender - https://www.joinlavender.com/
• Pritma Dhillon Chattha, DNP MHA RN - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pritma/?originalSubdomain=ca
• Brighid Gannon, DNP, PMHNP-BC - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brighidgannon/
• One Year In: COVID-19 and Mental Health - https://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/messages/2021/one-year-in-covid-19-and-mental-health
• Supporting Mental Health and Well-Being to frontline Healthcare Workers - https://nursing.jnj.com/our-commitment/mental-health
• ANA Well-being Initiative - https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/work-environment/health-safety/disaster-preparedness/coronavirus/what-you-need-to-know/the-well-being-initiative/

Think about what you might have learned had you been in the room with some of the most fruitful partnerships of our time: Jobs and Wozniak; Warhol and Basquiat; Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. That’s what our Meeting of Minds series is meant to do: to take you behind the scenes to listen in on conversations between chief nurse officers and leaders from disciplines inside and outside of healthcare who are driving innovation. This week, we bring together in conversation two incredible leaders and innovators: Kathy Driscoll, MSN, RN, CCM, Chief Nursing Officer at Humana Inc., and Kathryn Tart, EdD, MSN, RN, founding dean of the University of Houston's College of Nursing. Both have formed a unique collaboration through Humana’s Integrated Health System Sciences Institute at the University of Houston to train current and future healthcare leaders with a focus on providing holistic and collaborative care to improve health outcomes. The Institute’s unique and diverse programs aim to solve complex issues related to social determinants of health: social isolation, food insecurity, homelessness, and access to transportation for the Houston community. And it’s a win-win. Kathy and Kathryn’s efforts are strengthening the skills of nurses and of nursing students, as well as those beyond the medical field. Take a listen to find out how they’re doing it.

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Resources:

• The Humana Integrated Health System Sciences Institute at the University of Houston
  https://uh.edu/medicine/research/humana-institute/
• Papa: Addressing loneliness through companionship
  https://populationhealth.humana.com/stories/papa-addressing-loneliness-through-companionship/
• Kathryn Tart Biography
  https://www.uh.edu/nursing/about-us/faculty/Kathryn-Tart/
• Kathy Driscoll Biography
  Board of Trustees | American Nurses Foundation | ANA (nursingworld.org)
• The Voice of Humana Nurses Podcast
  https://soundcloud.com/user-498303911-771258513 

This Mother’s Day, as we celebrate and honor the moms/mums/aunts/aunties/grandmothers and maternal figures in our lives, we must also acknowledge the ongoing maternal health crisis in the United States. It is a crisis that Representative and Nurse Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14) understands well, especially its severe impact on Black mothers. Marrying her nursing background with a genuine enthusiasm for the power of policy to improve and save lives, she co-founded the Black Maternal Health Caucus and introduced The Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021. A comprehensive legislative solution, the Momnibus covers everything from the intersection between the COVID-19 pandemic, being a pregnant person of color, to the impact of extreme heat and air pollution on maternal and infant health outcomes. This legislation will drive innovation in practice—a bill that will scale transformative care by matching policy with science and data. It is also a reminder that there are solutions to longstanding inequities and problems, if we are bold enough to enact them.

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Resources:

• White House Declares Black Maternal Health Week
  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/04/13/a-proclamation-on-black-maternal-health-week-2021/
• Black Maternal Health Caucus Momnibus Bill
  https://blackmaternalhealthcaucus-underwood.house.gov/Momnibus

• US Black Mothers Die In Childbirth At Three Times The Rate Of White Mothers
  https://www.npr.org/2017/12/07/568948782/black-mothers-keep-dying-after-giving-birth-shalon-irvings-story-explains-why

• ProPublica Lost Mothers Project
  https://www.propublica.org/article/lost-mothers-maternal-health-died-childbirth-pregnancy
• A Clarion Warning About Pregnancy Outcomes and the Climate Crisis
  https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2767256  
• National Birth Equity Collaborative
  https://birthequity.org/

Hackathons provide a fast-paced, high energy, community-building opportunity for a wide spectrum of participants to flex their innovation muscles and solve for some of today’s greatest challenges. While these events have traditionally been geared towards computer scientists and software developers in recent years nurses, clinicians, and health innovators have started to convene health-challenge inspired events. Today the health hackathon landscape is exciting, rapidly evolving, and nurses are playing a lead role in driving them. In this episode, we learn from health influencers, hackers, and innovators Jane Sarashon-Kahn, MA, MHSA; Chris Recinos, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, NEA-BC; Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, BSN ‘21, and Jennifferre Mancillas, BSN, RN, RNC-NIC about how hackathons have impacted their thinking, skills, lives, career trajectory, as well as the landscape of innovative health solutions and products. And — why you should register for one at NurseHack4Health.org.

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Resources:

• Nurse Hack 4 Health
  https://nursehack4health.org/
• Nurse Innovation Hackathon Skills and Resources
  https://nursing.jnj.com/nurse-innovation-hackathons
• Nurse Innovation 101 Hub
  https://nursing.jnj.com/innovation-101
• The Lumify Care Story: The Impact of a Nurse Hackathon (video)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq3eUJ9CJQw
• HealthPopuli -- A blog covering the health/care ecosystem and people by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
  https://www.healthpopuli.com/
• Lumify Care
  www.lumifycare.com
• HealthConsuming -- From Health Consumer to Health Citizen by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHGMaq6ed5A
• #NurseHack4Health​: Pandemic Management Improving Education & Communication (video)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaeDotGVmb8&list=UU_rR0WAr4gUQY6s-pAvmIHA&index=7

This January marked one year since the launch of SEE YOU NOW. To kick off our second year, we explored everything from disaster preparedness and vaccines, to data and working with faith leaders as key collaborators in health innovation. In each episode, we asked how the pandemic has revealed new needs, amplified existing unmet needs, and exacerbated health disparities. And, more importantly, we discuss what solutions are being developed to address the most significant health challenges of today with distinguished experts with decades of experience, expertise and insights.

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There is a growing body of evidence and experience supporting our understanding of and investing in the social determinants and drivers of health—the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. We’re seeing that manifest with a wide range of innovations in every corner of our healthcare delivery system, including innovations in health plans, health insurance, and payment and delivery models. In this episode, meet nurse and health plan innovator Karen Dale, MSN, RN, Market President and CEO for AmeriHealth Caritas, and dive deep into the details of how innovations in health plans and health insurance can and should focus on getting you care, helping you stay well and build healthy communities.

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Resources:

• AmeriHealth Caritas
• Building a Better Delivery System
• Transformational change in health care systems: an organizational model
• The RAND Corporation, The Future of U.S. Health Care: Replace or Revise the Affordable Care Act?
• In Search of the Perfect Health System by Mark Britnell, https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/In-Search-of-the-Perfect-Health-System/?K=9781137496614
  
• The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid

Why do Americans struggle getting access to health care? It's a big question, and a big problem. One with serious consequences. Despite the plethora of health care systems, services, practitioners, and technology available throughout the United States, for many people, access to care is frustratingly difficult and frequently includes long wait times. And too often, the care people are able to access doesn’t meet their needs and may not be the care they deserve. In this episode, nurse practitioner Wendy Wright, APRN, FAANP, examines a fresh model for primary care where access, time, presence, data, and innovation are key to how her nurse practitioner-led primary care clinics are meeting people where they are—even if that’s in the front seat of their car, under a tent, or in a parking lot!

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Resources:

• Wall Street Journal, The Doctor Won’t See You Now
• New York Times, Advanced Cancers Are Emerging, Doctors Warn, Citing Pandemic Drop in Screenings
• University of Southern California study: COVID-19 reduced U.S. life expectancy, especially among Black and Latino populations
• PNAS study: Reductions in 2020 US life expectancy due to COVID-19 and the disproportionate impact on the Black and Latino populations
• Kaiser Health News, Thousands of Doctors’ Offices Buckle Under Financial Stress of COVID
• New York Times, A Grim Measure of Covid’s Toll: Life Expectancy Drops Sharply in U.S.

Public health emergencies ranging from weather-related events, man-made hazards and pathogen-based outbreaks and epidemics are far more common and increasing in frequency than one might imagine. The reality is there are many public health hazards with the potential to create catastrophic events that will have negative health outcomes for communities and the people who live in them as well as inflicting serious damage to the health systems and professionals responding to these crises and disasters. In this episode we meet disasters head-on at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security by visiting with nurse scientist and innovator Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, RN, FAAN, who spends all her waking hours (and some sleepless nights) considering the science, technology, and innovations that are being deployed to strengthen health systems, build community resilience, and protect national security.

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Resources:

• Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/who-we-are/
• Daily Nurse, Teaching Disaster Nursing in the COVID Era: a Talk with Tener Veenema https://dailynurse.com/teaching-disaster-nursing-in-the-covid-era-a-talk-with-tener-veenema/
• Forbes, Why America’s Nurses Were Not Prepared For The Coronavirus Pandemic https://www.forbes.com/sites/coronavirusfrontlines/2020/06/04/why-americas-nurses-were-not-prepared-for-the-coronavirus-pandemic/?sh=667284ac164b
• Disaster Nursing App https://www.unboundmedicine.com/products/disaster_nursing
• Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Recommendations for Improving National Nurse Preparedness for Pandemic Response: Early Lessons from COVID-19 https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/pubs_archive/pubs-pdfs/2020/nurse-preparedness-report.pdf
• New York Times, The Best Response to Disaster Is Resilience https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/opinion/madeleine-albright-coronavirus.html
• HHS Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Information Gateway https://asprtracie.hhs.gov/
• Ready.gov
• American Red Cross Disaster Preparedness https://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/make-a-plan.html
• Medical Reserve Corps https://mrc.hhs.gov/HomePage
• National Association of County and City Health Officials https://www.naccho.org/
• HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response https://www.phe.gov/about/aspr/Pages/default.aspx

The swift development, authorization and manufacturing of the COVID-19 vaccines have been a remarkable scientific feat that conjures up the great stories of science achievement. While vaccines and vaccination are widely considered one of the great success stories in public health, they may also have become a victim of their own remarkable success; a success that can lead to complacency about the benefits of vaccination and a focus on the potential risks or side effects. These hesitations can compromise vaccination programs and leave populations susceptible to outbreaks—a situation where no one is truly safe, because not enough of us are vaccinated. We've seen remarkable progress in vaccine technology; however, progress in vaccine confidence and distribution, trust in science, and confidence in our institutions tell a different story. In this episode, we dive deep into the science of vaccines with Christine Grady, MSN, PhD; Ernest Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN; Jaquelin P Dudley, PhD; and Lori Boyle, MSN, AGPCNP. Together we discuss the ethics and details of clinical trials and vaccine distribution, and the role that nurses specifically play in developing vaccine confidence and innovating to rapidly and safely achieve mass COVID-19 vaccination.

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Resources:

• World Health Organization, Immunization https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/immunization
• Nursing World, Pulse of the Nation’s Nurses COVID-19 Survey Series: Covid-19 Vaccine Survey https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/work-environment/health-safety/disaster-preparedness/coronavirus/what-you-need-to-know/covid-19-vaccine-survey/
• New Yorker, Why Are So Many Health Care Workers Resisting the Covid Vaccine? https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/why-are-so-many-health-care-workers-resisting-the-covid-vaccine
• ProPublica, Vaccine Distribution Readiness -- Most States Aren’t Ready https://www.propublica.org/article/most-states-arent-ready-to-distribute-the-leading-covid-19-vaccine?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature
• The Hill, Who Should Get Vaccinated Next? https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/531684-who-should-get-the-vaccine-next-not-just-seniors?utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign=1ecfefd403-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_10_26_05_57_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c9274ec4d-1ecfefd403-61995375
• Los Angeles Times, The Ethics of Vaccine Prioritization and Distribution https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-12-20/coronavirus-vaccine-priorities?utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign=1ecfefd403-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_10_26_05_57_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c9274ec4d-1ecfefd403-61995375
• World Health Organization, Immunization https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/immunization
• Nursing World, Pulse of the Nation’s Nurses COVID-19 Survey Series: Covid-19 Vaccine Survey https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/work-environment/health-safety/disaster-preparedness/coronavirus/what-you-need-to-know/covid-19-vaccine-survey/
• New Yorker, Why Are So Many Health Care Workers Resisting the Covid Vaccine? https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/why-are-so-many-health-care-workers-resisting-the-covid-vaccine
• ProPublica, Vaccine Distribution Readiness -- Most States Aren’t Ready https://www.propublica.org/article/most-states-arent-ready-to-distribute-the-leading-covid-19-vaccine?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature
• The Hill, Who Should Get Vaccinated Next? https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/531684-who-should-get-the-vaccine-next-not-just-seniors?utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign=1ecfefd403-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_10_26_05_57_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c9274ec4d-1ecfefd403-61995375
• Los Angeles Times, The Ethics of Vaccine Prioritization and Distribution https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-12-20/coronavirus-vaccine-priorities?utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign=1ecfefd403-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_10_26_05_57_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c9274ec4d-1ecfefd403-61995375

There has been a long-standing relationship between faith, clergy, health, and healthcare. Faith-based partnerships have forged and furthered public health goals historically and more importantly, at present. Clergy and faith-based organizations are pivotal and trusted players in their communities providing service, leadership, connection, communication, distribution of services, and increasingly, innovation. In this episode we explore with UK HealthCare’s Chief Diversity Officer Tukea Talbert DNP, RN, CDP how partnerships with our communities’ faith leaders and congregations can build trust, break systemic barriers to access, and move toward health equity.

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Resources:

• Religion As A Social Determinant of Health https://academic.oup.com/aje/article-abstract/189/12/1461/5622680?redirectedFrom=fulltext
• Faith Based Organizations and Public Health: Another Facet of the Public Health Dialogue https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6366525/
• UK Healthcare DEI Council Spreads Holiday Cheer Through Crucial Conversation Series https://www.kyforward.com/uk-healthcare-dei-council-spreads-holiday-cheer-through-crucial-conversations-series/

The use of data is rapidly shaping and transforming every aspect of how we measure, track, research, and deliver healthcare. Using large data sets, innovators have been unleashing technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis to open entirely new avenues to understand health conditions, the circumstances in which they arise, and personalized approaches to addressing them. Cancer care is one area where the use of data is rapidly transforming every facet of care, and one rapidly evolving development is the use of real world data to provide important insights that often have not been answered using data from the highly prized clinical trials data. One very specific area that data—particularly real world data—is helping us to understand is how race and ethnicity play a role in disparities in care and outcomes. In this episode, we go deep into the data weeds with clinician, innovator, and data specialist Kathleen Maignan, AGPCNP-BC, MSN, OCN, to reveal what stories the data really has to tell.

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Resources:

• https://rwe.flatiron.com/
• Nature, “Real-world data: towards achieving the achievable in cancer care” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41571-019-0167-7
• Cancer World, “Real world data: can we rely on it to shape cancer policies and practice?” https://cancerworld.net/real-world-data-can-we-rely-on-it-to-shape-cancer-policies-and-practice/

Think of the countless individuals seeking care daily in our clinics, pharmacies, hospitals, schools, and all manner of health care setting. To best communicate, understand, and build trust, it’s vital that patients see people in the healthcare workforce who look, speak, eat, pray, and live like they do.

Our healthcare workforce is far from diverse, representative of our population, or a reflection of our communities and the people we care for. And that is problematic. This representation pipeline problem takes root early on in our educational settings.

In this episode, we meet nurse anesthetist, founder and CEO of Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program, Wallena Gould, EdD, CRNA, FAAN, whose personal experiences led to a recognition of the scope and root problems that prevent innovation from being impactful or scaled, which led to a body of work that has been applied across healthcare to forge a more equitable future.

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Resources:

• Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program: https://diversitycrna.org/
• Wallena Gould’s Keynote Speech at the 2016 Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden Commencement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NK2e1hGvlU
• Diversity in Healthcare: The Importance of Representation: https://www.usa.edu/blog/diversity-in-healthcare/
• The New Yorker, “Slow Ideas” by Atul Gawande: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/29/slow-ideas
• “Diffusions of Innovation” by Everett Rogers: https://www.amazon.com/Diffusion-Innovations-5th-Everett-Rogers/dp/0743222091
• CRNA Goldie Brangman on Treating Dr. Martin Luther King: https://nurse.org/articles/nurse-anesthetist-crna-goldie-brangman-saved-MLK/

Each year, thousands of lives are saved and improved through organ and tissue donation. But despite the remarkable advances in organ recovery, more than 100,000 Americans are currently waiting for a lifesaving transplant with 33 dying every day for lack of an organ. This episode spotlights two nurse CEOs innovating at the system level to maximize organ availability. Ginny McBride, RN, MPH, Executive Director of OurLegacy Organ & Tissue Donor Services at Advent Health in Orlando, Florida, and Patti Niles, RN, BSN, CPTC, CEO of Southwest Transport Alliance in Dallas, Texas, are two nurse innovators from organ procurement organizations (OPOs) working to modernize and streamline organ donor management systems across the nation. Working closely with patients, families, and care teams provides them an understanding of the complexities of organ donation and transplantation enabling them to see the big picture and take action where innovations in health information exchange, donor management, and procurement can have an impact on a national scale. Tune in to hear about the groundbreaking work these nurses are leading so more people are able to give and receive the gift of a lifetime.

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Resources:

• S. Government Information on Organ Donation and Transplantation
• Organ Donation Facts
• The Costly Effects of an Outdated Organ Donation System
• Transforming Organ Donation in America
• Organ Donor Designations By State

Flattening the curve. Testing and contact tracing. Social distancing. Not only have these practices become part of our daily routines, but they are also the primary tools of the public health emergency response to COVID-19. In this episode, we meet Kathleen Blaney, MPH, RN, Director of Disease Control Emergency Preparedness at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Kathleen recounts the story of building the NYC Test & Trace Corps, a public health initiative to fight the threat of COVID-19 and one of the largest contact tracing endeavors in modern history, which in a matter of weeks trained and onboarded over 3,000 new contact tracers—remotely. She shares how the highly personal nature of contact tracing can strengthen science literacy and vaccine confidence, reduce health disparities, and even help build trust in both public institutions and each other amid the pandemic and beyond.

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Resources:

• https://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/test-and-trace/
• Notes from the Field: Interventions to Reduce Measles Virus Exposures in Outpatient Health Care Facilities — New York City, 2018, CDC

This Episode Won A 2021 "Bronze" Digital Health Awards® 

Artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way since being formally established as a field in 1956. Today, AI operates seamlessly in most every facet of our daily lives—and increasingly into more and more aspects of healthcare and how nurses are caring for people, and for entire populations. With the amount of health data and the rate at which we’re generating it, combined with the extraordinary computing power of machines, we're at a point where AI can see patterns we can't and tell us things we didn't know, before they happen!

In this episode, we meet nurse and innovation sherpa Robbie Freeman, MSN, RN, NE-BC, and learn how he and his team of clinicians, data scientists, and engineers are working with an interesting array of technology partners to design and embed AI into hospital operations and clinical workflows. This work supports nurses, doctors, and care teams in predicting and better managing clinical situations while keeping people safe, involving patients more deeply in their care, and ushering in a moonshot for healthcare that Robbie characterizes as “Precision Nursing”—delivering the right care to the right person, in the best way, at the ideal moment.

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Resources:

• American Hospital Association and Microsoft AI Course: https://sponsored.aha.org/Microsoft-AI-Healthcare-2020.html
• Artificial Intelligence and the Path to Health Care Innovation: https://www.aha.org/news/healthcareinnovation-thursday-blog/2020-11-04-artificial-intelligence-and-path-health-care

Seeing the need to keep homeless shelters, their guests and staff safe and coronavirus free, Nurse Disrupted—a pandemic response start-up in Madison, WI—was launched in record time to build fast, simple, virtual health screenings for homeless shelters and communities. On this episode, we meet nurses Bre Loughlin, MS, RN, and Tracy Zvenyach, PhD, APRN-NP, co-founders of Nurse Disrupted, and dig into the details of launching their new venture. We learn how their different, yet complementary backgrounds of technology and policy are a strength of their partnership, and how in solving one problem, they simultaneously solve several more, including helping nursing students fulfill their practicum hours toward graduation and gain digital health tech skills; helping shelter residents improve access to and quality of health care; conserving personal protective equipment; and gathering vital public health data to shape health and social services policy and access government funding.

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A key component of sound mental health that may help protect against depression and anxiety is resilience, and knowing that you’re connected to a greater purpose—to a story larger than your own—is key to building it. For Native and indigenous peoples, the stories of origin, history, and identity are central in building resilience and experiencing optimal health. In this episode, we meet indigenous nurse researcher John Lowe, RN, PhD, FAAN, and discover how he is addressing the long-standing structural impediments that have kept American Indian, Alaska Native and indigenous youth from connecting to their cultural heritage, native identity, and to a history that he describes as a source of great strength. John established the first Center for Indigenous Nurse Research For Health Equity where he is innovating on ancestral wisdom and tradition—through practices like the Virtual Talking Circle—to enable indigenous youth to move away from harmful behaviors and move toward lives and coping mechanisms that are both positive and strength-based.

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Fathers play a unique role in their children’s lives and development, and plenty of research backs up the importance of a father's presence. But when it comes to preparing for parenthood, the focus is heavily skewed to preparing mothers for motherhood. So how are fathers getting the support and training they need to be successful -- especially in this age of pandemic parenting? And how does this all come together with the additional challenge of being a father who isn’t living with their children? It's not easy. In this episode, we learn how nurse scientist and researcher Wrenetha Julion, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, CNL, is innovating to build and bolster the involvement of African American fathers who live apart from their children through the Building Bridges to Fatherhood Program and through an exciting new Father Inclusive Prenatal Care program.

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Resources:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEhbCD-AC00
• http://www.chicagoparentprogram.org

The CDC reports that Black mothers die at three to four times the rate of White mothers and that the mortality rate of Black infants is higher than that of any other ethnic group in the U.S. Regardless of income and education level, childbirth for Black women is more dangerous than it is for White women. Even tennis legend Serena Williams had a dangerously close call during her pregnancy. In examining why these disparities are so stark, it is clear that structural and systemic racism, racialized health inequities, and implicit bias not only play a role but also signify areas within our society that desperately need improvement. In this episode, we hear from three healthcare innovators who personally and professionally—as Black women and advisors to the Black Mamas Matter Alliance—work tirelessly to advance policy grounded in human rights and reproductive justice to improve Black maternal health and lives. Tune in to hear Jennie Joseph, LM, CPM, RM, Founder and Executive Director of Commonsense Childbirth and Founder of the National Perinatal Task Force; Joia Crear-Perry, MD, Founder and President of the National Birth Equity Collaborative; and Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Tenured Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco and member of the Bixby Center of Global Reproductive Health, share their wisdom, outrage, approach, and perspectives on the causes and solutions to Black maternal health disparities in the United States.

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Resources:

• https://blackmamasmatter.org/
• https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/p0905-racial-ethnic-disparities-pregnancy-deaths.html
• https://19thnews.org/2020/08/democrats-focus-new-legislation-on-the-pandemics-effect-on-maternal-mortality/
• https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2020/04/14/483114/community-based-doulas-midwives/
• https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2019/05/02/469186/eliminating-racial-disparities-maternal-infant-mortality/
• https://www.today.com/video/-this-is-not-a-new-crisis-how-jennie-joseph-is-working-to-change-maternal-mortality-rates-1488326723774
• https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/covid-19-is-no-reason-to-abandon-pregnant-people/

During a public health crisis, such as COVID-19, we are acutely aware of the connections between social justice, public health and innovation—especially in communities with vast disparities, such as those in Alaska where Tim Struna, MPH, RN, practices. To explore how public health nurses are innovating to respond to the unique challenges of the ongoing pandemic, we talk to Tim, Chief of Public Health Nursing in the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. He is focused on increasing access to health services for residents in rural areas, particularly during COVID-19, by innovating and coordinating health practices at a community level.

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As we wrap Season 2 of SEE YOU NOW we’re listening back through the stories and hearing important themes emerge that include a heightened appreciation for innovation, the role it’s playing in responding to our current public health crises, and how that role is changing and evolving. In the era of COVID-19, the practice, permissions, and norms of innovation have shifted dramatically –it’s also identified and cultivated new leaders.
Season 2 took us across the country finding stories of health innovation, from one coast to the other, from rural settings to urban settings, with nurses who specialize in everything from intensive care, to design, and legislation. While the season highlighted the geographic differences, it also punctuated, and, possibly more importantly, showed just how much we share in common.
While we are busy working to bring you more exciting stories in Season 3, we invite you to tune in to some of our favorite moments from Season 2. If you have any favorite episodes or stories of nurses leading innovation across all the frontlines of care, please let us know at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com. We’ll be back soon!

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Across the globe, millions of people are experiencing the challenges, complexities, and costs of caring for elderly family members—these challenges have been amplified and complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic. AARP recently reported that 48 million Americans, mostly women, care for another adult and now, checking in on our elder loved ones in a physically distanced manner requires even greater creativity and innovation. In this episode, we meet nurse innovator Joshua Littlejohn MPH, MSN, RN, and entrepreneur Gabriela Sabaté, MBA, MHCI, who are experimenting and innovating with technologies that connect data to transform how we not only provide care remotely, but also how we approach and use hackathons as a way to crowdsource ideas and introduce new innovations.

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Around the globe, nurses are actively innovating to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of citizens, environments, and entire communities in settings that some might not have considered—our state legislatures. The link between nursing, politics, and innovation might not seem obvious, but for the nurses who have ushered in meaningful legislation—the relationship is a natural one. In this wide-ranging conversation with Delaware Lt.Gov, Bethany Hall-Long, we discover how nurses involved with legislation at the local, state, and federal level is innovation.

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During the crisis phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare, like every other sector of the US economy, was forced to cease non-essential activities. Which meant canceling thousands of elective procedures and in-person visits, halting a wide-ranging set of business operations, and shifting thousands of employees to work from home and redeploying many to new roles. The profound disruption was both astounding and revealing and offered a rare opportunity to innovate swiftly at the enterprise level. In this episode, Karen Murphy, PhD, RN, executive VP, chief innovation officer and founder of the Steele Institute for Health Innovation at Geisinger offers the thirty thousand foot view of enterprise-level innovation at a scale and pace that was once thought of as too hard, too risky, and just not possible.

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The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is not a place any parent anticipates meeting and caring for their newborn. But when they do, they find it a place where science, technology, tiny humans and strong emotion meet head-on. And as COVID-19 spread across the globe, it added another layer of planning and anxiety for pregnant people anticipating how different their pregnancy could turn out should they or their newborn test positive for the virus. In this episode, we hear from Nicole Lincoln MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CCNS about her work on NICI, a radical reimagining of the infant incubator. What started as an idea to create a low-cost, portable, and single-use incubator for our smallest and most fragile citizens, morphed into new concepts about how the incubator could be used in new ways, new places, and solve new problems.

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COVID-19 has changed the way we do almost everything—not just in healthcare settings, but in settings of all kinds. With reactivation and recovery being keywords in everyone's inboxes, now more than ever, we need designers steeped in public health to help us reimagine a safe and healthy return to social life in a pandemic environment. In this episode, nurse and service designer Brittany Merkle, MFA, RN, shares how she, alongside a multidisciplinary team, were able to create a game plan and playbook for returning to school, work, and play safely.

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Listener warning: This episode features groundbreaking work around human trafficking. The episode includes a very difficult and graphic conversation that may be triggering and not appropriate for all audiences.
The International Labor Organization estimates there to be over 40 million victims of human trafficking globally, with hundreds of thousands in the United States. In addition to being a human rights violation, human trafficking is also a massive global health problem with almost 90% of victims seeking care in our healthcare systems, with most of them being seen in emergency departments. Nurses are often the first point of clinical contact for victims and play a key role in identifying and providing resources for them. In this episode, we meet Danielle Bastien RN, DNP, FNP-BC, a nurse practitioner at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan who researched and explored human trafficking and how health systems, and nurses specifically, can identify and protect victims, help them find a way out, and a safer, more secure path forward.

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In health systems across the globe, nurses are relied upon and trusted to care for people and their families. What's lesser-known are the details of care, what nursing teams actually do, and how their innovation unfolds. The COVID-19 crisis has dramatically changed that and provided opportunities for the world to take a closer look at the behind-the-scenes details and see nurses as experts leading innovation. In this episode, nurses Carlos Trochez, Jr., BSN, RN and Simone Hannah-Clark, BN, RN, CCRN two of the many thousands of nurses working in intensive care units around the world, reflect on the intensity and pace of real-time innovation in a pandemic and reveal how crowdsourcing from social media, collaborating across cultures and disciplines, and live choreography played a role in all the pieces coming together—and how they are present and highly attuned when the pieces, for some patients and families, fall apart.

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Resources:

“An I.C.U. Nurse’s Coronavirus Diary”, The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-icu-nurse.html
“Coronavirus: Kiwi nurse in New York describes harrowing job of caring for dying patients”, News Hub New Zealand https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/04/coronavirus-kiwi-nurse-in-new-york-describes-harrowing-job-of-caring-for-dying-patients.html
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Tune in as our host, Shawna Butler revisits the compelling stories and experiences featured in the SEE YOU NOW season 1 and COVID-19: The Nurse Response episodes. We’re taking a short break while season 2 is in production, but we’d love to hear from you and what you're seeing and solving. Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com and please take a moment to rate and review the show. It helps millions of listeners find and enjoy these great stories.

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Every day nurses face difficult decisions and ethical dilemmas. They know how to deal with suffering, are accustomed to participating in life and death decisions, and advocating for human rights. COVID-19 presented circumstances that no one was prepared for including weighing personal risk against an obligation to render care. In this episode, Liz Stokes, JD, MA, RN, Director of the American Nurses Association Center for Ethics and Human Rights provides insight into the ethical and moral dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted Black people and people of color in the United States. The pandemic placed a magnifying glass on existing disparities and their underlying causes. And when we look closer into these disparities, we find that youth experiencing homelessness and mental health issues are some of the most adversely affected by the COVID-19 public health measures and Shelter-in-Place orders. In this episode, we hear from psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and researcher, Dawn Bounds, PhD, MPHNP-BC whose research covers juvenile justice and homeless youth. Dawn reflects on the complex challenges these populations face amidst overlapping pandemics.

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No one anticipated that 2020, The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, would see nurses at the center of a novel coronavirus pandemic. But that’s exactly what’s unfolding and nurses are rising to the challenges and demands. Every day, frontline healthcare teams are making impossible choices, risking their health and their family's health, saving lives, and keeping our health systems afloat. The work is exhausting on every dimension and triggering a series of pandemics. COVID-19 will have a mental health impact on everyone. And for those providing the care and making tremendous sacrifices for our communities, the mental health toll will continue on well beyond the pandemic itself. In this special episode of SEE YOU NOW we hear from four healthcare leaders with a different lens on the shared mission of building a healthy, happy, and resilient healthcare workforce. Barbara McLean, clinical nurse specialist and nurse practitioner, Liz Stokes, the director of the ANA Center for Ethics and Human Rights, Judy Davidson, nurse scientist, and Pam Cipriano, the dean of the University of Virginia School of Nursing, share their experience, perspective and wisdom and the urgency of addressing mental health needs now.

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Interested in learning more?

Nurses, ethics, and the response to the COVID-19 pandemic-
https://www.nursingworld.org/~495c6c/globalassets/practiceandpolicy/work-environment/health--safety/coronavirus/nurses-ethics-and-the-response-to-the-covid-19-pandemic.pdf
Nurses’ Roles and Responsibilities in Providing Care and Support at the End of Life-
https://www.nursingworld.org/globalassets/docs/ana/ethics/endoflife-positionstatement.pdf
Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation- The Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™ Grand Challenge (HNHN GC), is a social movement designed to transform the health of the nation by improving the health of the nation's 4 million registered nurses.
https://www.healthynursehealthynation.org/
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline-
The Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals. Call 1-800-273-8255.
Dr. Bernadette Melnyk-
https://nursing.osu.edu/faculty-and-staff/bernadette-melnyk
CODE LAVENDER- CODE LAVENDER is a crisis intervention tool used to support any person in a Cleveland Clinic hospital. Patients, family members, volunteers, and healthcare staff can call a Code Lavender when a stressful event or series of stressful events occurs in the hospital.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/-/scassets/files/org/locations/hillcrest-hospital/spiritual-services/code-lavender.ashx?la=en
World Health Organization- State of the World’s Nursing Report- 2020
https://www.who.int/publications-detail/nursing-report-2020
As part of the Johnson & Johnson commitment to healthworkers through the Center for Health Worker Innovation – we have joined First Responders First. To access evidence-based content, tools, and resources designed to improve the resilience and well-being needs of frontline health workers and their leaders in time of crisis, visit the resources section of the First Responders First.

With shelter-in-place orders in effect across the country, people are spending prolonged periods of time inside their homes but what happens when home isn’t safe? In this episode of SEE YOU NOW, we speak with nurse scientist Camille Burnett about how nurses are in a unique position in their communities to screen, access, intervene, and meet people where they are—particularly responding to intimate partner violence. Even in the middle of a pandemic nurses and neighbors are looking out for one another and finding ways to make sure people are physically and emotionally protected.

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If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline by calling 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), visiting www.thehotline.org or texting LOVEIS to 22522.

During this pandemic, communities across the globe have experienced extraordinary social solidarity with the prevailing sentiment of ‘we are in this together’. While we’ve come together for mutual support and understanding in small and extraordinary ways, there are a few who believe the necessary public health measures are too lengthy and too broad. And in some parts of the US, they’ve taken to the streets to protest mandatory shelter-in-place orders that have closed non-essential parts of our economies. The loudest voices in the midst of these debates and protests were the nurses who stood silently in solidarity for their patients who could not join the conversation. In Arizona, nurses Jade Juriansz, Jasmin Bhatti, and Brittany Schilling participated in a counter protest to provide facts about what is happening with COVID-19 on the frontlines. Although silent, these nurses’ presence and motivation resounded around the world. In this episode we get to hear the motivations of this courageous group who made a commitment to educate the public and share the facts, and the health risks—a true example of 'meeting people where they are'.

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Hold your Pen Torches High by Molly Case- a poem for all nurses and midwives in England on International Nurse’s Day 2020

Nurses are exposed to death, suffering, and sickness throughout their careers and COVID-19 has only increased their exposure to traumatic environments. Because of their environment, nurses experience adverse effects on their mental health and well-being. Why is it then that nurses are often not screened or provided with mental health support in their workspaces? Nurse scientist Judy Davidson DNP, RN, FCCM, FAAN works to reinforce the mental health needs of nurses while bringing awareness to nurse suicides. She creates programs that provide simple and accessible tools for health systems to adopt throughout their networks to ensure that nurses can stay strong, be supported, and get help when needed.

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As part of the Johnson & Johnson commitment to healthworkers through the Center for Health Worker Innovation – we have joined First Responders First. To access evidence-based content, tools, and resources designed to improve the resilience and well-being needs of frontline health workers and their leaders in time of crisis, visit the resources section of the First Responders First.

As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the globe, citizens everywhere are becoming aware of just how strained our healthcare systems are and their vulnerabilities when extraordinary, unscheduled demands are placed on them. COVID19 brought into sharp focus the critical need to swiftly mobilize our healthcare workforce --in particular, highly trained and skilled nurses needed to screen, test, and care for patients, families, and communities. In this episode, nurses Sarah Gray and Dan Weberg explain how they and the nurses at Trusted Health are modernizing, personalizing, and rapidly mobilizing our healthcare talent and workforce.

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Across the world, students of all ages along with educators and families are part of an unanticipated global homeschooling abruptly introduced by COVID19. While necessary to ensure public safety during a pandemic, closing schools is a difficult and complex decision that has far-reaching implications for students’ health, their learning, and their safety. No one is more attuned to those needs than school nurses who, on any given school day, are helping medically fragile and special needs students, and students struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, food, housing, and economic insecurity. In this episode, we virtually visit Camden, NJ, to meet veteran school nurse, Robin Cogan MEd, RN, NCSN and learn why school nurses should be at the center of re-entry decision making and how school nurses are supporting students and families while uncertainty looms.

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From health bots to artificial intelligence and everything in between --COVID-19 is shining a new light on nurses and the expanding role and reliance on technology to meet our collective healthcare needs. As the novel coronavirus is changing our daily lives and the ways we work and interact, it is also accelerating the pace of transforming our healthcare systems and how we use and share data, work as teams, and communicate with patients and communities. In our latest episode of The Nurse Response, we talk with Molly McCarthy, National US Health Director and Chief Nursing Officer at Microsoft, about how this global pandemic is fast-forwarding the Future of Healthcare to the Now of Healthcare and the lead roles nurses are playing in this rapid transition.

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As the world responds to COVID-19, increasingly and alarmingly the daily headlines include the risks our healthcare teams and essential services personnel confront in efforts to care for patients and keep our communities safe. Behind these headlines are stories of daily experiences and individual lives. Nurse Jennifer Gil shares her diary about being on the frontlines of COVID-19, about contracting the virus and being isolated from loved ones in a time of immense uncertainty. It’s a powerful reminder that we cannot lose focus on the emotional impact of this illness.

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Nurses, Ethics and the Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Over the next few weeks, we are pausing our regularly scheduled programming of See You Now to bring you stories from nurses on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. As the entire world learns about COVID-19 and responds to this massive disruption, nurses are rapidly innovating to meet the demands of patient care during this trying time. Listen in to hear from nurse practitioner, telehealth consultant, and Founder & CEO of BabyLiveAdvice, Sigi Marmorstein as she shares the clinical realities of working on COVID-19 and explains how telemedicine is putting eyes and ears on patients where they are, while reducing the stress on hospital services.

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How did misinformation, hysteria and fear surrounding the first HIV/AIDS outbreak turn into community, compassion and love? The HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s also brought forth homophobia and panic. Already stigmatized by society as having “gay cancer,” HIV and AIDS patients were discriminated against by their own healthcare providers in the spaces that were intended to provide them support and treatment. Outraged with the lack of care being provided to HIV and AIDS patients, San Francisco General Hospital’s Ward 5B nurses Alison Moed, Cliff Morrison and Guy Vandenberg set aside their own fears to rally around and provide humane and dignified care to these patients when their health and well-being depended on it. Their extraordinary actions have transformed and established a new standard of care that is used around the world for those living with HIV and AIDS.

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In a digitally-driven world where information and misinformation are both readily available, it can be hard to know what sources to trust--particularly when it comes to health decisions about communicable and vaccine-preventable diseases. In this episode, Melody Butler, BSN, RN, CIC, founder of Nurses Who Vaccinate, discusses how and why she's built a global advocacy network, coalition, and movement of nurses to meet people where they are, and ensure they are well-informed with science-based facts to inform their health decisions.

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Additional Resources

Nurses Who Vaccinate
https://nurseswhovaccinate.org/about-nwv
The World Health Organization and vaccine hesitancy
https://nyti.ms/2TukoMT
Vaccine Confidence.org
https://www.vaccineconfidence.org/
2019 Global Measles Surveillance Data
https://bit.ly/2TIJF4z
2019 Measles Outbreaks around the Globe
https://nyti.ms/2PTt4tR
2019 Measles Outbreak in Samoa
https://bit.ly/3az4aYg
Sustaining Innovation
https://bit.ly/2ww5hJM

Nurse, educator and historian Dian Baker, PhD, APRN-BC, PNP, PHN, has been championing a creative solution to reduce cases of hospital-acquired pneumonia across the country: encouraging patients to brush their teeth. In this episode, Baker and Shawna Butler discuss the significance of nurses taking the lead in developing partners for scaling innovative solutions across an enterprise and why dental care, as well as mental healthcare, should be a larger priority in every healthcare setting.

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Additional Resources

“Could the Answer to Preventing Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Be as Simple as Better Oral Care? This Nurse Thinks So” Johnson & Johnson Innovation https://bit.ly/393h1Sb
“Brushing up on pneumonia prevention” ACP Hospitalist https://bit.ly/32F7peh

Pioneer, MacArthur Fellow and Nurse Midwife Ruth Watson Lubic, EdD, RN, CNM, FAAN, FACNM, opened the first freestanding birth center for low-income families in New York City at a time where it was common for women to have very little say in their labor and delivery experience. In this episode, Lubic talks with Shawna Butler about her six decades of experience in nurse-midwifery, how far care delivery in childbirth has come and what the next 60 years of health innovation in this space could be.

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Additional Resources

“Principles for a Successful Professional Life,” by Ruth Watson Lubic, https://bit.ly/2TgleNs
World Health Organization (WHO), Health Topics, Midwifery, https://www.who.int/topics/midwifery/en/

As an emergency nurse and palliative care liaison, Jonathan Bartels, RN, understands the toll that witnessing a death can have on healthcare worker resiliency. In this episode, Shawna Butler talks with Bartels on designing “The Pause,” a meaningful and effective practice that health systems are rapidly adopting to address the alarming rate of clinician burnout and mental stress.

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The Pause, https://bit.ly/2NDapS7
University of Virginia - “The Pause, A UVA trauma care nurse honors the lives of his patients,” https://bit.ly/2Np7bkP
Where to download The Pause app -
Google, https://bit.ly/2FIFBuC
Apple, https://apple.co/2TkeDBy
American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Critical Care Nurse, “The Pause,” https://bit.ly/2skB3HJ
American Nurses Association Position Statement on Nurses’ Roles and Responsibilities in Providing Care and Support at the End of Life, https://bit.ly/2GbORI4
American Nurses Association Position Statement on Addressing Nurse Fatigue to Promote Safety and Health, https://bit.ly/2RDDu0G
The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, https://advancingexpertcare.org/
The New York Times - “The Role of Nurses When Patients Decide to End Their Lives,”
https://nyti.ms/2tt51dq
Death Over Dinner - Curriculum for healthcare professionals, https://bit.ly/2QTgb45
Death Over Dinner - Healthcare Edition video, https://bit.ly/2tVyQ6d

Gender equality. Economic development. Greater health outcomes. According to nurse, researcher and policy expert Barbara Stilwell, PhD, RN, FRCN and Executive Director of Nursing Now, a global campaign seeking to elevate the nursing profession, more nurses in leadership and policy roles can result in all those things and more. In this episode, Stilwell speaks with Shawna Butler about the need to raise awareness of the impact nurses have in transforming health systems, the groundbreaking work they have accomplished in devising solutions to patient care and health outcomes and the exciting potential of nurse leadership and innovation.

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Journal of Clinical Nursing – “Breaking the Silence: A new story for Nursing,” https://bit.ly/39dfxVg
The New York Times - “Workforce Shortage Threatening our Care,”
https://nyti.ms/2tHS8vY
The New Yorker – “Women and Power,”
https://bit.ly/2S9LeZM
World Health Organization, International Year of the Nurse and Midwife designation and campaign,
https://bit.ly/2tEnd3A
Nursing Now
https://www.nursingnow.org/2020-the-year-of-the-nurse-and-the-midwife/
https://www.nursingnow.org/nightingale/
https://www.nursingnow.org/vision/
https://www.who.int/hrh/com-heeg/digital-APPG_triple-impact.pdf
Investing in Nurse Leadership Report, https://bit.ly/2SvI4P5

What happens when a nurse merges a love of gaming with a passion for improving healthcare? A transformation in solving health challenges that is as unique as it is fun. Anna Sort, nurse, gamer and digital health entrepreneur, talks with host Shawna Butler about her groundbreaking work that leverages the fun, thrills and science of gamification to create behavioral change, improved health and innovative ways to learn new skills.

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TEDx Barcelona featuring Anna Sort, https://bit.ly/381FZR6
Jane McGonigal, PhD, https://bit.ly/383I92D
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing - Design Thinking for Health free online curriculum, https://bit.ly/2tekXQs
Ohio State University School of Nursing - The Innovation Studio, https://bit.ly/2uE6FJ8

Effective communication is key for any team, and during an infectious disease outbreak when the public is on high alert and lives are at stake, it becomes even more critical. As some of the first healthcare providers to treat the Ebola virus in the U.S., members of Emory University’s Serious Communicable Diseases Unit, Sharon Vanairsdale, APRN, and Colleen Kraft, MD, share their experiences, learnings and innovations they established to create a culture of safety and an affinity for preparedness to prevent the spread of deadly infections.

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Additional Resources

World Health Organization - Ebola Fact Sheet, https://bit.ly/36RSRJt
Emory University Hospital – “Five years later, Ebola patients return to Emory,” https://bit.ly/2QPIxMn
Emory University Hospital Serious Communicable Diseases Program, https://bit.ly/35OrQFr
Contagion Live – “Infectious Diseases Dominate WHO's List of 2019 Health Threats,” https://bit.ly/2RbcTbf
STAT – “FDA Approves an Ebola Vaccine for the First Time,” https://bit.ly/38tOUeo
https://bit.ly/368Zxl1

Health systems across the world are strained by ever increasing demands and in need of innovation from all corners, and nurses are discovering and driving solutions to these complex challenges. Despite this, nurses’ potential to improve health outcomes and lead system change is often underestimated and underutilized. Host Shawna Butler, nurse economist and tech enthusiast, talks to historians, researchers, journalists and executives to uncover the true power of what nurses can do. SEE YOU NOW will prompt listeners to see nurses in a new light.

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Additional Resources

The American Nurses Association - What is Nursing? https://bit.ly/2Rz1t1d
Sigma Theta Tau International - “The Woodhull study on nursing and the media: Health care’s invisible partner: Final report,” https://bit.ly/35WEW3f
Journal of Nursing Scholarship, “The Woodhull Study Revisited: Nurses’ Representation in Health News Media 20 years Later,” https://bit.ly/3adLHkW
World Health Organization - International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife designation and campaign, https://bit.ly/35UUUuM
Nursing Now - 2020: The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, https://bit.ly/35RrbmF
IntraHealth - Investing in the Power of Nurse Leadership Report, https://bit.ly/2Tp3SOy
The New Yorker - “Amid a Measles Outbreak, an Ultra-Orthodox Nurse Fights Vaccination Fears in Her Community,” https://bit.ly/2FLHt61
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