Nurse Innovation Fellowship
Applications closed. Check back soon for updates on our new cohort!
This ground-breaking, one-year, team-based nursing fellowship for Chief Nursing Officers (CNO), nurse executives, and senior nurse leaders, is focused on powering-up nurse-led innovation and leadership within health systems to drive transformative change in the healthcare work environment so nurses and patients can thrive. Johnson & Johnson’s sponsorship of the fellowship covers all attendance and travel costs for participants.
About the Fellowship
The hybrid in-person and virtual fellowship will immerse two nurse leaders from 15 different U.S. health systems in principles of human-centered design and design thinking to be applied to real-world, specific challenges faced by their health system.
The innovation curriculum provided by Penn Nursing will be paired with business acumen, change management and strategic leadership skills development through Wharton Executive Education. At the conclusion of the fellowship, fellows will pitch their innovative solutions with the goal of bringing that solution back to their healthcare system to implement.
The innovation curriculum provided by Penn Nursing will be paired with business acumen, change management and strategic leadership skills development through Wharton Executive Education. At the conclusion of the fellowship, fellows will pitch their innovative solutions with the goal of bringing that solution back to their healthcare system to implement.
Program Timeline
Applications Open1/6/25
Applications Close2/17/25
Selected Fellows Notified3/21/25
Program Kick-Off (Virtual, 6 hours)5/14/25 from 11am-5pm ET
Summer Innovation Institute (In-person, 36 hours, Philadelphia, PA @ UPenn Nursing School)6/23/25 - 6/27/25
Three Virtual Sessions (6 hours per session)9/10/25 - 9/11/25
11/12/25 - 11/13/25
2/11/26 - 2/12/26
from 11am-5pm ET (the time is subject to change)
Final Closing Event (In-Person, New Brunswick, NJ @ Johnson & Johnson World HQ)In person 5/20/26 - 5/21/26
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Meet the nurses who are changing human health through new protocols, policies, programs, and technologies, every day.
Meet the past Nurse Innovation Fellowship teams
- Meet the 10 teams that form the new 2024-2025 Nurse Innovation Fellowship by Johnson & Johnson cohort. The teams represent geographically diverse areas across the U.S., large and small health systems, and standalone hospitals in urban and rural locations.2024-11-27T18:48:57.959Z
- Meet the 10 teams that formed the 2023-2024 Johnson & Johnson Nurse Innovation Fellowship cohort. The teams represented geographically diverse areas across the US, and came from large and small health systems as well as stand-alone hospitals and public health systems in urban and rural locations.2024-01-08T18:38:13.173Z
- Meet the 12 nurses who formed the 2019-2022 Johnson & Johnson Nurse Innovation Fellowship cohort.2023-02-28T14:11:19.470Z
