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Nurses are... the heart and backbone of healthcare
Hear voices of real nurses sharing how they drive impact every day.
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Nurses show up in many ways. We celebrate all of them.
For more than 125 years, Johnson & Johnson has been proud to advocate for, elevate, and support the nursing profession. Because at the center of every moment in healthcare, there’s a nurse making it work.
Nurses are leaders, innovators, educators, caregivers, and advocates. They are problem solvers at the bedside and changemakers beyond it. With deep clinical expertise, insights, and an understanding of patient needs, nurses are uniquely positioned to move healthcare forward.
This National Nurses Month, we invite you to hear directly from nurses working to deliver quality care and shape a better future for all. Through stories, reflections, and real voices, we’re spotlighting the many ways nurses drive impact every day.
Nurses are leaders, innovators, educators, caregivers, and advocates. They are problem solvers at the bedside and changemakers beyond it. With deep clinical expertise, insights, and an understanding of patient needs, nurses are uniquely positioned to move healthcare forward.
This National Nurses Month, we invite you to hear directly from nurses working to deliver quality care and shape a better future for all. Through stories, reflections, and real voices, we’re spotlighting the many ways nurses drive impact every day.
SEE YOU NOW: Nurse voices of Magnet
Hear directly from nurses at the Magnet & Pathway conference who embody each of these roles. Listen as they share candid reflections and their lived experiences with the SEE YOU NOW podcast team.
Nurses Are: Leaders | Ama Mathewos
What does it take to transform a struggling nursing team into one of the most recognized units in the country, and then dedicate your career to making sure every nurse leader has the support to do the same? Ama Mathewos — nurse, certified executive coach, and founder of Evolve Lead Succeed — knows the answer firsthand.
Nurses Are: Change Agents | Anny Jenkins
You can’t be what you can’t see, and Anny Jenkins has built her entire career around changing that. From rural West Virginia to the halls of Washington D.C., she shares how finding her community transformed her from a nurse on the verge of walking away into one of the most vocal advocates for the next generation.
Nurses Are: Advocates | Heather Bartlett
Heather Bartlett is a nurse educator and supervisor in the Emergency Department at MyMichigan Medical Center Midland in Midland, Michigan. Listen to Heather as she reflects on what it means to truly see your patients: to hear what they’re saying, to notice what they aren’t, and to stand with them in the hard spaces as their bridge, their advocate, and their ally.
Nurses Are: Team Players | Jaden Dennis
A former Division I sprinter turned ER nurse, Jaden Dennis knows that winning was never a solo effort. Here, Jaden draws a direct line between the trust built in relay handoffs and the trust that holds a high-stakes medical team together when it matters most.
Nurses Are: Role Models | Jester Lloyd Bautista
What if the most powerful thing a nurse could do was teach another nurse to think? That question has driven Jester Lloyd Bautista from the classrooms of the Philippines to the hallways of Cedars-Sinai, where he now leads a program designed to walk new graduates into their first RN role and build the bridge he wished had existed when he started out.
Nurses Are: Entrepreneurs | Marguerite Rowell
Nurses are problem solvers, and Marguerite Rowell built a mobile app to prove it. After nearly 25 years rising through the ranks at Baptist Health South Florida, she identified a gap no binder could fix and created NurseMath, putting complex financial tools directly in the hands of nurse leaders.
Nurses Are: Catalysts | Rachell Dumas
Nurses are catalysts, and Rachell Dumas turned one of the most frightening moments of her life into a platform that is changing how patients advocate for themselves. As a neuro ICU nurse who was dismissed in the ED during a neurological emergency, she built HEARD to give patients the language and tools to be heard when it matters most.
Nurses Are: Innovators | Robyn Barriffe
Nurses are natural innovators — and few embody that better than Robyn Barriffe, who has gone from reluctant recruit to CNO and Johnson & Johnson Nurse Innovation Fellow. Here, she shares why human-centered design may be the missing framework in modern nursing innovation.
Every nurse has a story
And every story reveals a different aspect of the profession. Explore nurse stories below.
Innovator
Marion Leary, PhD, MPH, RN, is the Director of Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, and an advocate for the power of design thinking to help nurses enhance their innovative skills and drive change. But what is design thinking? Learn how Marion leverages this concept to help nurses solve real-world challenges.
Healers
Cardiac care nurse Michele Santoro and her fellow clinicians at the Yale New Haven Heart and Vascular Center routinely race against time to save lives. Find out how her innovations combine technology and a human touch to transform cardiovascular care delivery and improve patient outcomes.
Problem solvers
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. Here’s how structured nurse-led innovation is transforming care from the bedside up.
Catalyst
Nurse and Associate Professor Michael Cary, PhD, RN, empowers nurses to make AI an ally in their nursing practice through a research and training initiative from the Duke University School of Nursing.
Pathfinders
Meet three teams of extraordinary nurse innovators working to improve healthcare in meaningful ways. From helping to fill critical gaps in maternal care in Ghana, supporting the transition of medically fragile children in New York, and building workplaces where nurses and patients can thrive in Virginia, each of these stories demonstrates the power of nurse-led innovation to transform healthcare.
Entrepreneur
One of the biggest barriers standing between millions of Americans and programs assisting with food, utilities, and healthcare is enrollment paperwork. Health innovator and entrepreneur Kwamane Liddell, JD, MHA, BSN, founded ThriveLink, a multi-lingual agentic AI chatbot to solve this challenge and connect people with much-needed resources.
Our commitment
For healthcare to work, it takes nurses. For more than 125 years, Johnson & Johnson has been proud to advocate for, elevate, and empower the nursing profession, because when we work together to support nurses, we are advancing better health for all.
