Nurses Rise to the Challenge Every Day
Johnson & Johnson Nursing: Our Commitment to Nurses
For our healthcare system to work, it takes nurses. Nurses rise to the challenge every day, and Johnson & Johnson sees you and stands with you. For 125 years we have championed your innovation, compassion, and grit. And, like you, we will never stop.
At Johnson & Johnson, we believe nurses are the backbone and heart of health systems, critical in transforming healthcare.
Nurses are leading and innovating to improve healthcare every day. They are the largest and most trusted segment of the health workforce.
With invaluable hands-on patient experience and insights, resourcefulness and an innate innovative mindset, nurses are uniquely positioned to move healthcare forward.
We believe that if we can help support and empower nurses and other frontline health workers to solve for the healthcare challenges they face every day, we will improve healthcare for everyone.
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 transform healthcare. We do this through three focus areas:
Amplify Our Nursing Profession Campaign Celebrating Nurses
Share and spread the word on social media and through your networks
Watch and Share Our Video Ad
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Watch and Share Our Digital GIF
Watch our special section on the TODAY Show Honoring a new class of Nursing Students
This spring, Johnson & Johnson was proud to honor a new generation of nurses by sponsoring a special episode of the TODAY show. Listen to Lydel Wright Johnson & Johnson Nurse Innovation Fellow as he speaks with TODAY’s Al Roker to honor the graduating class from the Montclair State University School of Nursing.
The History of Our Commitment to Supporting Nurses
1897In 1897, a Johnson & Johnson nurse, Elizabeth Washam, helped lead the first-ever large scale manufacturing of sterile surgical dressings
Throughout history, nurses have played an outsized role in interacting with patients, with critical roles in prevention, education, treatment, and recovery. Learn more here
1897
1908J&J Scientific Director Fred Kilmer supports the establishment of the new St. Peter’s Hospital Nursing School in New Brunswick, NJ
Fred Kilmer, Johnson & Johnson Scientific Director from 1889-1934, helped support the nursing school at St. Peter’s Hospital in the company’s hometown of New Brunswick, funding the purchase of books, classroom materials, and more after the school was founded in 1908. Learn more here
1908- 1930
1943In 1943, we included nurses in the first line of Our Credo
Our responsibility to nurses at Johnson & Johnson is called out in the first paragraph of Our Credo, the 1943 document that sets out the values that guide our Company. Learn more here
1943
1953J&J created an annual nursing scholarship to address a shortage of nurses in the U.S.
1953
Late 20th CenturyJohnson & Johnson Wharton School Fellows Program for Nurse Executives at the University of Pennsylvania
Nursing executives learn the skills for effective management and implementation of strategic and tactical plans with this program offered through the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Learn more here
Late 20th Century
2002In 2002, a shortage of 500,000 nurses in the US loomed, so we launched the Campaign for Nursing’s Future to help turn things around.
Launched in 2002, the Campaign for Nursing’s Future sought to inspire more people to enter and stay in the profession. Learn more here
2002
2014Launched Tomodachi J&J Disaster Nurse Training Program
The lifesaving Tomodachi J&J Disaster Nursing Training Program was inspired following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March 2011. Learn more here
2014
2018In 2018, we launched a QuickFire Challenge Series to support nurse-led innovation
Launched in 2002, the Campaign for Nursing’s Future sought to inspire more people to enter and stay in the profession. Learn more here
2018
2020In 2020, we hosted our first-ever virtual hackathon to help nurses develop technological solutions to COVID-19 healthcare challenges and multiple initiatives to elevate the nursing profession.
Our NurseHack4Health hackathons continue today and provide a unique experience for nurses to flex their innovation muscles. Learn more here
2020
TODAYJ&J Nursing: Proudly Advocating for, Elevating and Empowering All Nurses to Drive Transformative Health Change
Johnson & Johnson is committed to elevating and empowering all nurses to drive transformative healthcare change. Learn more
TODAY
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