Inspired by stories of the nurses who cared for her cousin, who traveled to the US from the Bahamas for open-heart surgery, Marguerite Rowell, MSN, MSM/HM, MBA, ONC, SCRN, NEA-BC, decided in the eighth grade that she wanted to be a nurse. She came to the United States, joined Baptist Health South Florida, and spent nearly 25 years advancing from staff nurse to charge nurse, to manager, to director, to Assistant Vice President of Nursing, where she helped open the Miami Cancer Institute and served as interim Chief Nursing Officer. But throughout every promotion, one problem never left her: healthcare finance. Nurse leaders are handed multi-million-dollar budgets and a binder from a training session, and then immediately sent back to the floor, where the commitment to patients and staff takes center stage.
Nurses are advocates. Nurses are problem solvers. Nurses are creators & creatives. Nurses are entrepreneurs, innovators, businesspeople.
So, she built NurseMath: a mobile app that puts the financial calculations nurse leaders need, ROI, contribution margin, proforma, staffing ratios, right in their pocket, wherever they are. Marguerite makes the case that nurses are multi-dimensional creators at the helm of the innovations that will transform healthcare.
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