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  • 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.
    2026-03-12T21:47:29.572Z
  • A first of its kind report commissioned by the American Nurses Foundation found that just one penny of every healthcare philanthropy dollar goes to nurses, despite the need for massive and urgent investment in nursing to transform our complex health care systems and improve care delivery. A new series on the SEE YOU Now podcast explores this important issue. Here are three takeaways from the episodes.
    2026-02-04T22:26:32.333Z
  • Meet the three awardee teams receiving a combined $385,000 supported by Johnson & Johnson Foundation to advance solutions that are deeply rooted in lived experience and engineered for real-world impact.
    2026-01-08T15:54:39.304Z
  • Growing from a single hackathon to a global platform for nurse-led innovation, NurseHack4Health has been empowering nursing teams to design bold, scalable solutions for five years. This year’s Pitch-A-Thon showcases the breadth of nursing ingenuity, from AI-driven maternal health tools and sensory-based care innovations to solar-powered dialysis and digital workforce solutions, demonstrating how nurses everywhere are transforming healthcare.
    2025-11-11T15:04:29.850Z
Down to their core, nurses carry a fundamental respect for human dignity and an intuition for patient needs. That's why they're natural innovators. If you'd like to learn more about nurse-led innovation, here's where you can get started.
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