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How Northwell is strengthening a culture of nurse-led innovation
What happens when frontline nurses are given the time, tools, and organizational support to redesign the systems they work within every day? Northwell Health partnered with Johnson & Johnson and SONSIEL to run a NurseHack4Health event, resulting in dozens of practical ideas, new cross-functional collaboration, and important lessons on sustaining innovation inside a health system.
From isolation to connection: How this rural nurse residency program builds community
In many rural hospitals, new nurses may be the only graduate hired that year. The Iowa Online Nurse Residency Program connects them with peers across hospitals, creating the support network they need to build confidence and thrive in practice.
How nurses at Tufts turned patient mobility into a workforce solution
When nurses at Tufts Medical Center saw that patient mobility was clinically essential but operationally difficult, they didn’t accept the gap — they redesigned the work. Through the Nursing Workforce Solutions program, a team of direct care nurses created a dedicated Mobility Tech role that improves patient outcomes while easing nursing workload burden. Here’s how structured nurse-led innovation is transforming care from the bedside up.
Why investing in nurses is essential to the future of healthcare
Nurses are the backbone of healthcare delivery. Yet philanthropic investment in nursing lags far behind the need to transform complex health systems. Below, learn why sustained investment in nurses is essential to sustained access to care.
Nursing Workforce Solutions: 2025-2026 Cohort
Meet the 26 health system teams that form the new 2025-2026 program. These teams of 240 nurses represent geographically diverse areas across the U.S., large and small health systems, and standalone hospitals in urban and rural locations.
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Explore our nursing innovation programs
NurseHack4Health innovation
Our nurse hackathon programming provides unique experiences for nurses to flex their muscles and receive the support and motivation needed to bring their ideas to life and improve human health.
Nurse Innovation Fellowship
Explore the Johnson & Johnson Nurse Innovation Fellowship, a yearlong program for nurse leaders focused on innovation, leadership, and transforming healthcare systems.
Nurse Practitioner Entrepreneur Program
This year-long, hybrid learning entrepreneur development program provides working NPs with essential leadership and business skills to launch NP-led healthcare enterprises in primary and/or behavioral health services in limited resource settings.
Nursing Workforce Solutions
The AACN CSI Academy helps direct care nurses become clinician leaders and change agents, driving positive outcomes for patients and healthcare teams.
Our commitment to nurses
In alignment with a long-standing commitment to supporting frontline health workers, Johnson & Johnson is proud to continue our legacy of advocating for, elevating and empowering the nursing profession by working with our partners to attract and strengthen an innovative, thriving and diverse nursing workforce, empowered to advance health equity and transform healthcare. We do this through three focus areas:
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Champion nursing as an innovative, high-impact, purpose-driven career
Nurses are the backbone and heart of health care, and nursing has been recognized as the most trusted profession in a Gallup poll for over 20 years. Yet we know that the impact of nurses in health care remains undervalued, and the expertise of nurses is underutilized.
That is why Johnson & Johnson is a passionate advocate for elevating awareness of the fundamental value of the nursing profession. See how we support and advocate for the value of the nursing profession with these resources. -
Equip nurses with leadership and innovation skills
For healthcare to work, it takes nurses. Nursing burnout, turnover, and vacancy rates especially in acute care and hospital settings continue to be an issue for many health systems. Understanding what kind of work environment is important to nurses is the first step toward addressing the foundational issues that can cause them to leave. Through programs that focus on innovation and leadership skills, we can help support more nurse-led solutions that can transform health systems and create environments where nurses and patients can thrive. -
Connect nurses to clinical and educational resources
Whether you are early in your career path and don’t know where to start, or ready to pick a nursing specialty or advance your career, there are several tools, resources, and on-demand programs that can help support you through your career journey while advancing your capabilities to deliver quality patient care.
SEE YOU NOW podcast
An inspiring storytelling podcast series that spotlights nurses who are driving innovative solutions for today’s most challenging healthcare problems.
