See You Now Podcast

With our health and nursing workforce in crisis, the entire healthcare system is in critical condition. When experienced nurses leave the workforce substantial knowledge and skills gaps are created – and with the education pipeline choked by a lack of educators and funding, there are fewer and fewer new nurses to step in. When nurses leave, we aren’t just losing a set of scrubs in the unit – we’re losing highly specialized skills, institutional knowledge, clinical acumen, and advanced expertise gleaned over a career of caring for people.

Part of rebuilding the nursing workforce must be an emphasis on specialty training, focused specifically on reversing the ‘brain drain’ created by attrition in the workforce. And to get there, nurses must be considered as the clinical experts they are, and their deep understanding of care must be acknowledged. In this episode, we hear the musings of nurses Leslie Oleck, president of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA), Linda Groah, the CEO/Executive Director of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), and April Kapu, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) about the unique value their specialties bring to the healthcare system as a whole. From reversing provider shortages by working at the top of licensure, to holding the holistic view of a patient during surgery, and integrating the mind and mental wellbeing into all areas and sites of healthcare, they illustrate the importance of nursing expertise across disciplines.

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Guests

• Leslie Oleck MSN, PMHNP-BC, PMHCNS-BC, LMFT
• Linda Groah, MSN, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC, FAAN
• April Kapu, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FCCM, FAAN

Resources

• WHO: State of the World's Nursing 2020
• American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA)
• Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
• American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)
• Why Specialize?
• Nursing Specialization: So Many Choices
• 20 Nursing Career Specialities
• What Are All The Types of Nursing?
• Which Nursing Specialty Is Right For You?
• The world could be short of 13 million nurses in 2030 - here's why
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Healthcare Outlook

In this special edition of SEE YOU NOW, we’re honoring the national Juneteenth holiday. As a podcast focused on how nurse-led innovation is strengthening our healthcare systems and transforming lives, we’re marking Juneteeth with a health equity playlist to amplify and elevate the scholarship, innovation, leadership, and contributions of Black nurses toward building healthier communities, families, and experiences. While meaningful progress has been made in reducing health disparities, there remains so much more to do in our race toward health equity. We invite and urge you to listen, learn from, follow, engage, elevate, and cite Black nurses and their courageous and groundbreaking work and contributions to moving health equity forward. In this episode, you’ll hear a sampling of nurses who are innovating on the front lines of health equity. Click here to enjoy our full Juneteenth playlist.

Honoring Juneteenth with SEE YOU NOW
A playlist featuring and elevating nurses who are driving health equity forward

• 44. Way More Than a Health Plan
• 40. Counting on Faith
• 32. Bridges To Fatherhood
• 39. Real World Data. Real Life Results.
• 47. A Vote For Mom’s Health
• 31. Black Midwives & Matter Matter
• 38. Mentoring for a More Equitable Future
• 67. Nurses You Should Know
• 68. Frontline Forces: Vaccine Celebrity

Episode Resources

• What is Juneteenth? An interview with Scholar and Historian Lori Brooks
• President Biden Signs Juneteenth Bill Creating a New Federal Holiday
• On Juneteenth. An interview with historian and award-winning author Annette Gordon Reed

Father's Day, observed in 100+ countries and in America on the third Sunday in June, celebrates and honors fatherhood and paternal bonds, as well as the influence of fathers in society. Fathers play a unique role in their children’s lives and development, and plenty of research backs up the importance of a father's presence. But when it comes to preparing for parenthood, the focus is heavily skewed to preparing mothers for motherhood. So how are fathers getting the support and training they need to be successful—especially in this age of pandemic parenting? And how does this all come together with the additional challenge of being a father who isn’t living with their children? It's not easy. In this episode, we learn how nurse scientist and researcher Wrenetha Julion, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, CNL is innovating to build and bolster the involvement of African American fathers who live apart from their children through the Building Bridges to Fatherhood Program and through an exciting new Father Inclusive Prenatal Care program.

Resources

• Preparing for Parenthood: A Father Inclusive Model of Prenatal Care
• Opinion: It's time to help men become fathers by giving them the prenatal care they need
• Wrenetha Julion 2019 Keynote at NSNA Meeting
• The Chicago Parent Program
• Helping Young Fathers Across the Transition to Parenthood
• Fatherhood and Reproductive Health in the Antenatal Period: From Men’s Voices to Clinical Practice
• Fatherhood Matters
• National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse | US Dept of Health & Human Services
• Preparing for Fatherhood
• Supporting Fatherhood
• How to Dad
• Fathering Together
• Father-Inclusive Perinatal Parent Education Programs: A Systematic Review

In celebration of Pride Month, we’re returning to an earlier episode highlighting nurse practitioner and healthcare activist Dallas Ducar (she/her/hers), the CEO of Transhealth Northampton. People of all gender and sexual identities need and deserve respectful, affirming healthcare without discrimination, and the work of Dallas and her team is essential in expanding access – and improving quality of life – for all.

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous, and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, rethink how healthcare is organized and where it’s delivered.

In this fourth of a multi-episode series centered on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report we take a close up look at how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed disparities in access to care that landed far more heavily on vulnerable communities. This is especially true for the Transgender community which has been uniquely affected by the pandemic in terms of access to gender-affirming care. We spend time with Nurse Practitioner and healthcare activist Dallas Ducar (she/her/hers), the CEO of Transhealth Northampton, and learn how their ground-breaking comprehensive care clinic delivers gender-affirming care to gender-diverse adults, children, and families. In this work, Dallas describes the ripple and compounding effects of discrimination, the impact of legislation on telehealth, the role of community-based participatory action research, and the ways that nurse-led innovation can be the playbook for healthier, experiences, outcomes, workplaces, and affirming care for all of us.

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Guests

• Dallas Ducar, MSN, APRN

Resources

• Transhealth Northampton
  Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research and Highlights Johnson & Johnson, American Nurses Association (ANA) and theAmerican Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care - STAT
• Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: COVID-19 Care
• With More Freedom, A Nurse-Led Model for Healthcare is Gaining Ground During Pandemic
• Massive Study Confirms Telehealth Effective in Primary Care
• Telehealth Rollbacks Leave Patients Stranded, Some Doctors Say
• The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on LGBT People
• Human Rights Campaign: Transgender Resources
• Tips for Allies of Transgender People
• Toward a Uniform Classification of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Laws
• Why It’s Not A Labor Shortage
• Protecting and Advancing Health Care for Transgender Adult Communities

Stigma and stereotypes can hold us back. In every part of our lives – work, family, hobbies, friendships – how we think others see us often shapes how we see ourselves, even when our capabilities far surpass what they or we believe. Nurses, in particular, face many external, stereotyped expectations. Many people have firmly held beliefs about who nurses are, what they do, where they work, their skills and weaknesses, and even what they wear. But nurses know better – nurses are widely skilled, deeply experienced, and are represented across every demographic and in many different settings. They experience the full range of human emotion, too; the strength and compassion they are known for, but also the vulnerabilities and challenges that go unspoken.

Samantha Roecker, RN has a “track record” (pun intended) of breaking many barriers and stereotypes and her success in competitive running combined with her experience as a nurse drove her to combine her passions to raise awareness and drive change for nurses. Frustrated by the lack of mental health resources for nurses, specifically those specifically addressing healthcare trauma and the pandemic, she knew more could be done. Inspired by British nurse and marathon record holder, Jessica Anderson, Sam embarked on a bold goal – breaking the Guinness World Record for fastest marathon run in a nurse’s uniform, and raise thousands of dollars to support nurse mental health, in partnership with The American Nurse's Foundation, Moxie Scrubs and the 26.2 Foundation.

At the 2022 Boston Marathon, she did just that. In this episode, we talk with Samantha about the impact stigma has on nurses’ ability to reach their full potential, what really defines a nurse, the power of mental health support, and the surprising overlap between nursing and competitive running.

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Guests

• Samantha Roecker, RN

Resources

• Sam Roecker - Elite Marathoner Who Will Run Boston in Scrubs
• Fastest marathon in a nurse's uniform (female) | Guinness World Records
• Jessica Anderson awarded fastest marathon wearing a nurse's uniform record title
• Nurse Runs the Boston Marathon in Scrubs For a Cause, Here's The Reason Why
• Jessica Anderson Guinness World Record Marathon - Nurse CNO Award
• #WhatNursesWear: Nurses of Twitter respond brilliantly to sexist Guinness World Records decision
• American Nurses Foundation's Well-Being Initiative
• Coronavirus | Well-Being Initiative | Mental Health | ANA
• Mental Health Awareness Month
• Healthy Nurse Healthy Nation
• At Boston Marathon, Philly nurse breaks record while wearing nursing scrubs (subscription trequired)
• www.instagram.com/samroecker
• Psych Congress Network: Reclaiming Nurses Week video series
• Passing the Baton: Nurses Jess Anderson and Sam Roecker

International Nurses Day is an important opportunity to check the pulse of nurses around the world, especially in 2022. Nurses have given their all in the response to pandemics, natural disasters, and in war zones, in leading mass COVID-19 testing and vaccination efforts, and in completely redesigning how and where care is delivered. The value of nurses has never been more clear. Nor could it be any clearer that not enough is being done to protect nurses and other health workers, tragically underscored by the more than 180,000 health worker deaths due to COVID-19 and the alarming increase of mental health conditions and concerns nurses report.

COVID-19 has altered many nurses’ career plans – over the past two years, McKinsey & Company has found that worldwide, nurses consistently, and increasingly, report planning to leave the workforce at higher rates compared with the past decade. Those departures have profound implications for the health of citizens and systems everywhere. Indeed, the greatest threat to global health is the workforce shortage.

As part of our Meeting of Minds series, we listen in as four McKinsey partners from their Healthcare Systems & Services practice discuss the results of a McKinsey & Company survey of frontline nurses across six countries including Brazil, France, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In this conversation we hear Gretchen Berlin, RN, Thomas London, MBA, Robin Roark, MD, MBA, and Senthu Arumugam, MBA explore the survey’s findings of why nurses are considering leaving their roles, what energizes them to keep going, and how nurses around the world are eager to innovate and deliver care in different and better ways to solve what has become a consequential global problem.

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Guests

• Gretchen Berlin, RN
• Thomas London, MBA
• Robin Roark, MD, MBA
• Senthu Arumugam, MBA

Resources

• Nurses: A Voice to Lead
• National Nurses Month
• Nurses and the Great Attrition
• Around the world nurses say meaningful work keeps them going
• A Worriesome Drop in the Numbers of Young Nurses 
• The greatest threat to global health
• Why We Must Invest in Our Healthcare Workforce
• Assessing the lingering impact of COVID-19 on the nursing workforce
• Surveyed nurses consider leaving direct patient care at elevated rates
• Nursing in 2021: Retaining the healthcare workforce when we need it most
• International Center for Nurse Migration’s Sustain and Retain in 2022 and Beyond
• Increased workforce turnover and pressures straining provider operations
• Survey: US hospital patient volumes move back towards 2019 levels
• Policy Strategies for Addressing Current Threats to the U.S. Nursing Workforce
• Remote-Work Experts Are in Demand as Return to Office Begins Anew
• State of the world's nursing 2020: investing in education, jobs and leadership

Observed during May, National Nurses Month is a call-to-attention, action, and dedicated to highlighting the impact nurses have on people, communities, nations, and the planet. Given that May is also Mental Health Awareness Month, this year we’re particularly mindful of the impact that healthcare has had on nurses; of the specific challenges and dangers nurses have encountered, endured, and continue to endure; and the need to express our appreciation for nurses in terms of bold, urgent, system-level action, support, and investment.

In this episode we learn how a health system’s leadership demonstrates their commitment to the wellbeing and flourishing of their team members; the rather unlikely story of nurses, singing, and stardom; and the surprising healing power of the arts. Special thanks to nurse and tenor singer Winnie Mele, RN, BSN, NE-BC, nurse and soprano singer Keshia Jaboin, RN, BSN, and Allison Lowenfeld from Northwell Health’s corporate marketing team for sharing their story, experience, and voices.

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Guests

• Keshia Jaboin, RN, BSN
• Winnie Mele, RN, BSN, NE-BC
• Allison Lowenfeld 
• Northwell Health Nurse Choir

Episode Resources

• National Nurses Month
• Nurses: A Voice to Lead
• Mental Health Awareness Month
• Advancing the Science of Arts, Health & Wellbeing
• The Northwell Health Nurse Choir
• Northwell Health Nurse Choir’s journey to America's Got Talent
• America's Got Talent: Northwell Health Nurse Choir Audition 
• Northwell Health Nurse Choir on Instagram

The health of our planet is in serious condition. Climate change is anticipated to result in increasingly warmer global temperatures, more extreme weather events, and rising sea levels. Without accelerated intervention and broad scale innovation across all economic sectors, we face devastating effects on global water and food supplies, critical infrastructure and supply chains, physical and mental health, and a less certain future. Understanding the impacts of climate change on human health is vitally important for the global population. You can’t have healthy people without a healthy environment; something that health professionals today increasingly understand. Just as nurses are skilled at turning around a health crisis that humans can experience — they’re also well trained and ideally positioned for addressing the critical condition of our planet. In this episode we meet Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director of Planetary Health for the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota and learn how nurses can and are reducing greenhouse emissions, find out why educating girls is key to a healthier planet, and discover who the best intergenerational storytellers are for helping us understand our relationship to and stewardship of the planet and where to innovate to improve its health.


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Guest(s) Featured in this Episode

• Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN

Episode Resources

• Earth Day
• Planetary Health Alliance
• Project Drawdown
• Alliance of Nurses For Health Environments
• Nurses Drawdown
• Want to Fight Climate Change? Educate A Girl.
  

Throughout 2022, we’ll bring you stories that speak to the current state of the healthcare workforce and the urgent need to protect and support nurses; design safe, healthy work environments and cultures that attract, value, empower, add diversity to, and advance nurses. We’ll point you to experts, innovators, catalysts, artists, tools, resources, and more to increase well-being, mental fitness, clinical excellence, and joy in the work of improving health and saving lives.

The transformation of primary care is unfolding across the US within a new era of primary care clinics that have embraced technology and data and the power to anticipate and automate many of the front, mid, and back-office operations that stitch together a truly delightful primary care experience. Yet this wave of building new, transformational tech-enabled primary care clinics didn’t include building solutions to support existing clinics — many of which are Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) located in under-resourced and rural communities and serving those insured by the public health insurance program Medicaid. Nearly 85 million people, half of which are children, are enrolled in Medicaid, making it the single largest insurer in the United States.

In this episode, we meet nurse Cassie Choi and engineer Neil Batlivala, two mission-driven founders of the healthtech startup Pair Team, who built a remote, tech-enabled clinical team to provide virtual assistance and automation of clinical operations, care coordination, and outreach activities — so onsite primary care teams can build trust and focus on what really matters: people, relationships, and health.


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Guests

• Cassie Choi, RN Co-Founder, COO at Pair Team
• Neil Bativala, Co-Founder, CEO at Pair Team
  

Episode Resources

• Pair Team
• Startup 'Pair Team' Bolsters Work of Community Health Centers | Healthcare Innovation
• As a nurse she saw the problems of US healthcare. Her startup heals them. - News @ Northeastern
• Transforming Primary Care -- We Get What We Pay For | NEJM
• A Vision For Primary Health Care in the 21st Century | WHO
• What is Medicaid’s Value? | The Commonwealth Fund
• Transforming Primary Care And Achieving Digital Health Equity For Under Resourced Populations | Health Affairs
• Analysis of Recent National Trends in Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment
• Medicaid Enrollment Data
• Neil Batlivala, Pair Team, On Putting Primary Care Operations On Autopilot

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we’re returning to an earlier episode to elevate the trailblazers of TODAY and ask what the preferred experience of health and design of health systems looks like when we center on the experiences and expertise of the women in nursing who lead the way.

According to a CDC report, during the first year of the pandemic in 2020, the number of women in the United States who died during pregnancy or shortly after giving birth increased sharply.

And while the pandemic has exacerbated it, the maternal mortality crisis was an issue long before COVID, one that disproportionately impacts Black women. U.S. maternal death is the highest in the developed world, and this preventable trend, despite our awareness, continues to worsen.

It's in this light that we return to one of our first, and timeless episodes, Empowering Childbirth and the story of nurse-midwife and maternal and child health pioneer, innovator, and activist Ruth Lubic.

Vigorous at 95, Lubic continues six decades of a movement to improve health, experiences, and outcomes for mothers, children and families. At its core, her work, innovation, and commitment is to address health inequities and ensure the safety and dignity of everyone who gives birth.

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Guest(s) Featured in this Episode

• Ruth Lubic, EdD, RN, CNM, FAAN, FACNM, MacArthur Fellow
  

Episode Resources

• The Worsening U.S. Maternal Health Crisis in Three Graphs | The Century Foundation
• "Go to Ruth's House": The Social Activism of Ruth Lubic and the Family Health and Birth Center
• Maternal Deaths Rose During the First Year of the Pandemic | New York Times
• The Pandemic Is Making America's Maternal Mortality Rate Worse | NPR
• Black Maternal Health Caucus
• Relationship Between Hospital-Level Percentage of Midwife-Attended Births and Obstetric Procedure Utilization
• The U.S. Needs More Midwives for Better Maternity Care | Scientific America
• TIME Women of The Year 2022 | Jennie Joseph Wants to Fix the Black Maternal Mortality Crisis One Midwife at a Time
• Midwives Are Growing in Popularity. Here’s What You Need to Know. | Healthline
• U.S. Midwife Workforce Far Behind Globally | Statista
• Birth By The Numbers: International Data
• Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2020
• Principles for a Successful Professional Life by Ruth Watson Lubic
• World Health Organization (WHO), Health Topics, Midwifery 
• Oral History Interview with Ruth Watson Lubic | Columbia University Libraries

Throughout 2022, we’ll bring you stories that speak to the current state of the healthcare workforce and the urgent need to protect and support nurses; design safe, healthy work environments and cultures that attract, value, empower, add diversity to, and advance nurses.  We’ll point you to experts, innovators, catalysts, artists, tools, resources, and more to increase well-being, mental fitness, clinical excellence, and joy in the work of improving health and saving lives.

The delivery of commercial COVID-19 vaccines in less than a year is nothing short of miraculous and was made possible by Operation Warp Speed—a historic public-private partnership initiated and coordinated by the United States government. While other medical moonshots and breakthroughs have been achieved, few have occurred with the speed and success of developing the COVID-19 vaccines.

December 14, 2020—just seven months after announcing Operation Warp Speed—was the first day the COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the US and those on the frontlines of health care were among the first in this historic and unprecedented mass vaccination effort to receive them.

Along with her colleagues from Northwell Health's Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens New York, critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay unhesitatingly and voluntarily rolled up her sleeve and got her COVID-19 shot in the company of dozens of her colleagues, hospital leadership—and cameras—not realizing or planning she'd become the first person in the US to receive it. Within minutes, the now-iconic images and video footage of her receiving a COVID-19 jab administered by fellow nurse Michelle Chester, DNP began circulating in media outlets around the globe and along with it a high-profile opportunity to reach others, inspire them, and build their vaccine confidence.


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Guest(s) Featured in this Episode

• Sandra Lindsay, DHSc, MS, MBA, RN, CCRN-K, NE-BC

Episode Resources

• Explaining Operation Warp Speed Fact Sheet
• What Healthcare Can Learn From Operation Warp Speed
• ‘I Trust Science,’ Says Nurse Who Is First to Get Vaccine in US
• From the Factory to the Frontlines
• The beginning of the end for COVID: Northwell’s Director of Employee Health Services, Michelle Chester, DNP, discusses the COVID-19 vaccine's significance in ending the pandemic
• First Covid shot recipient in US is now a vaccine activist
• Sandra Lindsay Honored by President Biden at White House Ceremony
• Sandra Lindsay got the first US COVID jab. Here's her secret to motivate others
• Smithsonian Obtains Vial from First US COVID-19 Vaccine Dose

Throughout 2022, we’ll bring you stories that speak to the current state of the healthcare workforce and the urgent need to PROTECT AND SUPPORT NURSES; design safe,  healthy work environments and cultures that attract, value, empower, add diversity to, and advance nurses. 

In 2022 we’ll point you to experts, innovators, catalysts, artists, tools, resources,  and more to increase well-being, mental fitness, clinical excellence, and joy in the work of improving health and saving lives.

Nursing’s origin story, the one that informs the profession’s identity, has, like many origin stories, overlooked, omitted, or forgotten the contributions of many, but particularly nurses of color who have shaped the nursing profession and society in significant and enduring ways and advanced person-centered care, health equity, research, racial integration, nursing education, and the performance of a vast array of health systems since the profession’s founding.

But what if nursing’s professional origin story represented the contribution and stories of all nurses? How might having an inclusive, expansive history and nursing narrative impact the diversity, cohesion, safety, and performance of our health care teams and systems and achieve our health equity goals? What if names like Mary Seacole, Hazel Johnson Brown, and Eddie Bernice Johnson were as familiar to reference as nursing icons, innovators, and game changers as Florence Nightingale? In this episode, we meet nurse innovators Ravenne Aponte, BA, BSN and Joanna Seltzer Uribe, RN, MSN, EdD (c) and their quest to introduce you to, in fun and sticky ways, NursesYouShouldKnow -- and more importantly -- WHY we should know them.

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Guests
Joanna Seltzer Uribe, RN, MSN, EdD(c)
Ravenne Aponte, BA,RN, BSN


Episode Resources

• Nurses You Should Know
• The Barbara Bates Center for the study of History of Nursing
• BHM Essential Readings
• Amplify Nursing: Season 4: Episode 04: Ravenne Aponte
• Joanna Seltzer Uribe RN MSN,EdD(c) Johnson & Johnson Nurse Innovation Fellowship Capstone Project
• American Association for the History of Nursing
• Beyond Florence: Valuing Nurses in the History of Health Care
• The National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations (NCEMNA)
• Black Nursing Historical Timeline
• Celebrating Nurse Trailblazer Estelle Massey Osborne
• National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing
  

Throughout 2022, we’ll bring you stories that speak to the current state of the healthcare workforce and the urgent need to PROTECT AND SUPPORT NURSES; design safe,  healthy work environments and cultures that attract, value, empower, add diversity to, and advance nurses. 

In 2022 we’ll point you to experts, innovators, catalysts, artists, tools, resources,  and more to increase well-being, mental fitness, clinical excellence, and joy in the work of improving health and saving lives.

SEE YOU NOW has always focused on the incredible stories of nurse-led health innovation and we’re pleased to introduce a new series -- Frontline Forces documenting the pandemic response of frontline nurses to the overwhelming challenges and uncertainty and the changing nature of nursing in the midst of evolving circumstances nurses are facing at this point in the pandemic.

School nurses are on the frontlines of community and public health. They play a critical role in the health, wellbeing, and readiness to learn for children around the world. And today --they are guiding schools, families, local officials, and public health departments through a global pandemic unlike anything seen in the past 100 years. Yet even before the pandemic school nurses were overtasked, under-resourced, and hard to find.

Despite recommendations from The American Academy of Pediatrics and the National School Nurses Association of having at least one registered nurse in every school, fewer than 40% of American public schools have a full-time nurse. COVID-19 has magnified the contribution of school nurses and the need for every student to have access to school nurses and each school district to have a fully funded, comprehensive health services program.

We checked in with school nurse Liz Pray, MSN-Ed, RN, NCSN in Washington State to learn about the role of a school nurse during a pandemic, how she is experiencing this moment, learning from and gaining strength from the support of her national school nursing community, and why school nurses are more important and essential than ever.

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Guests

• Liz Pray MSN-Ed, RN, NCSN

Episode Resources

• School nursing in America--1902-1994: a return to public health nursing
• School Nurse Shortage Named a ‘National Crisis’
• Framework for 21st Century School Nursing Practice
• WA Details of the governor’s 2022 supplemental budget
• School Nurse Deficit Deepens as States Seek Relief
• School Nurse Workforce Study
• School Nurses Adapting and Innovating in Response to COVID-19
  

Throughout 2022, we’ll bring you stories that speak to the current state of the healthcare workforce and the urgent need to PROTECT AND SUPPORT NURSES; design safe, healthy work environments and cultures that attract, value, empower, add diversity to, and advance nurses.

In 2022 we’ll point you to experts, innovators, catalysts, artists, tools, resources, and more to increase well-being, mental fitness, clinical excellence, and joy in the work of improving health and saving lives.

On April 26, 2020 as New York City was reeling from the first, unrelenting wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the US, Dr. Lorna Breen died by suicide. Dr. Breen spent the three weeks before her death recovering from her own COVID-19 infection, working a nearly unbroken string of 12-16 hour shifts treating COVID-19 patients—often without adequate supplies, PPE, and support—all while being exposed to an unfathomable amount of death and human misery. Despite being aware of and having published on the risks and phenomenon of burnout in emergency care medicine, Lorna was afraid to seek help out of fear it would irreparably damage the career she had spent her entire life building. Her death spurred global awareness, a movement, and national legislation, led in part by her sister and brother-in-law, to reduce burnout of health care professionals, safeguard their well-being, and restore joy to the healing professions.

In this episode we meet Jennifer and Corey Feist, co-founders of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation, US Senator Tim Kaine, co-sponsor of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, and nurse and researcher Christopher Friese, a national authority on the nursing workforce and healthcare workplace safety to learn about ending the culture of fear regarding seeking mental health support within healthcare, the urgent need for healthcare organizations to build cultures that protect our healers, the importance of making sure that our workforces feels valued and supported at work, and the need to take care of each other and the vulnerabilities that we all have. If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800.273.TALK (8255). It’s confidential and available 24/7.

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Guests
U.S. Senator Tim Kaine
J.Corey Feist, JD, MBA, CEO Lorna Breen Foundation
Christopher Friese, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN

Episode Resources

• Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation
• Nurses at High Risk for Suicide: 'I Just Wanted All of It to Stop' - California Health Care Foundation
• Association of US Nurse and Physician Occupation With Risk of Suicide | JAMA Psychiatry | JAMA Network
• 10 Facts About Physician Suicide and Mental Health
• Study: Female Nurses Twice As Likely to Take Their Lives
• How Are Nurses Coping With the Covid Crisis? Beyond the Scenes | The Daily Show
• Staff shortages, COVID patients pushing hospitals to breaking point | 60 Minutes - CBS News
• Health-care Workers Battle Burnout as Omicron Surges: ‘It just rips your heart apart’
• American Nurses Foundation: COVID-19 Survey Series: Mental Health and Wellness
• Nurse Survey Spotlights Mental Health Difficulties During the Pandemic | MedPage Today
• US Senator Tim Kaine - Press Conference with Advocates & Frontline Physicians Urging Final Passage of His Bipartisan Bill to Promote Health Care Provider Mental Health
• ALL IN: WellBeing First for Healthcare
• Resilience on The Front Lines
• A Pragmatic Approach for Organizations to Measure Health Care Professional Well-Being - National Academy of Medicine
• Burn-out an "occupational phenomenon": International Classification of Diseases
• American Nurses Foundation: Well-Being Initiative
• Health Workers Facing COVID Stress Participating in Psychedelic Therapy Clinical Trial
• A Study of Psilocybin-assisted Psychotherapy for Clinicians with Symptoms of Depression and Burnout Related to Frontline Work in the COVID Pandemic
• Valid and Reliable Survey Instruments to Measure Burnout, Well-Being, and Other Work-Related Dimensions - National Academy of Medicine
• ANA Position Statement: Promoting Nurses’ Mental Health
• ANA Nurse Suicide Prevention/Resilience
• AMA Joy In Medicine Program
• Fifth Window: Self-care for nurses, by nurses
• Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) - Assessments, Tests | Mind Garden
• Crisis Text Line
• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention AFSP

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, as well as rethink how healthcare is organized and where it’s delivered.

In the final edition of our multi-episode series centered on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report we have a heart-to-heart with Nurse executive Julie Kennedy Oehlert, Chief Experience Officer at Vidant Health in rural eastern North Carolina. Sitting near the center of a non-traditional organizational hierarchy, with a ‘most pit vibe’, Julie describes the importance of pushing a lot of care, resources and healthcare needs deep into the region when working in a rural setting, a setting where your team members may also become your patients. For her, building a new organizational hierarchy based on love is key in helping health care providers reach people in low-trust communities. In moving her organization to a culture of love and empathy, Julie emphasizes the importance of trust in innovation while reinforcing the resilience of Vidant’s nurses and health care providers at the onset of the pandemic. Because health care is not a transaction, it is a relationship, and love has everything to do with it.

Guests
Julie Kennedy Oehlert, DNP, RN

Episode Resources

• Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research andHighlights Johnson & Johnson,American Nurses Association (ANA) and theAmerican Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care - STAT
• The Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity
• What’s Love Got To Do With It?
• Vidant Health: Changing Healthcare From the Inside Out
• Watch: How Design Thinking Revolutionized Nurse Retention at Vidant Health
• Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: COVID-19 Care
• Could the Great Resignation Help Workers? Take a Look at History
• Why Health-Care Workers Are Quitting in Droves
• Preventing Nurse Burnout Makes Good Economic Sense
• Exploring Moral Resilience Toward a Culture of Ethical Practice
• COVID-19 and Rural Communities: Protecting Rural Lives and Health
• Nurses Rise To The Challenge Every Day
• Johnson & Johnson: Our Commitment to Nurses
• From Triple to Quadruple Aim: Care of the Patient Requires Care of the Provider
• Watch and Share Our Video Ad in Support of the Nursing Workforce

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous, and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, rethink how healthcare is organized and where it’s delivered.

In this fourth of a multi-episode series centered on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcarereport we take a close up look at how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed disparities in access to care that landed far more heavily on vulnerable communities. This is especially true for the Transgender community which has been uniquely affected by the pandemic in terms of access to gender-affirming care. We spend time with Nurse Practitioner and healthcare activist Dallas Ducar (she/her/hers), the CEO of Transhealth Northampton, and learn how their ground-breaking comprehensive care clinic delivers gender-affirming care to gender-diverse adults, children, and families. In this work, Dallas describes the ripple and compounding effects of discrimination, the impact of legislation on telehealth, the role of community-based participatory action research, and the ways that nurse-led innovation can be the playbook for healthier, experiences, outcomes, workplaces, and affirming care for all of us.

Guests
Dallas Ducar, MSN, APRN

Episode Resources

• Transhealth Northampton
• Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research andHighlights Johnson & Johnson,American Nurses Association (ANA) and theAmerican Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care - STAT
• Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: COVID-19 Care
• With More Freedom, A Nurse-Led Model for Healthcare is Gaining Ground During Pandemic
• Massive Study Confirms Telehealth Effective in Primary Care
• Telehealth Rollbacks Leave Patients Stranded, Some Doctors Say
• The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on LGBT People
• Human Rights Campaign: Transgender Resources
• Tips for Allies of Transgender People
• Toward a Uniform Classification of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Laws
• Why It’s Not A Labor Shortage
• Protecting and Advancing Health Care for Transgender Adult Communities

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous, and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, rethink how healthcare is organized and where it’s delivered.

Moved by the unprecedented stress and strain on nurses and our health systems, Johnson & Johnson, in partnership with the American Nurses Association and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, set out to understand the various ways that the nursing profession evolved amidst the pandemic. From the stories and data emerged the pointed Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report -- one that offers a deeper understanding on how the pandemic transformed nursing practice and how the momentum of these innovations can steer us to a much better and preferred future of the profession.

In this third of a multi-episode series centered on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report, we go for a checkup on retail health clinics with Angela Patterson, the Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer at CVS MinuteClinic to learn how the teams at MinuteClinic worked with a variety of partners to deliver care throughout the pandemic to communities across the US when health systems around the country experienced high levels of disruption. Throughout this public health crisis, the MinuteClinic teams continued and evolved their established care services, and as their patients’ needs changed and the public health crisis escalated, their teams took bold, innovative leaps to ensure the safety and well being of their clinical teams, deliver on the urgent need for convenient COVID testing, and play a transformative role in the enormous logistics challenge of swiftly mobilizing teams to vaccinate millions of people across the nation with the new COVID vaccines.

Guest

• Angela Patterson, DNP, FNP-BC, NEA-BC, FAANP, Vice President, CVS Health and Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer at CVS MinuteClinic

Episode Resources

• Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research and HighlightsJohnson & Johnson, American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care - STAT
• Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: COVID-19 Care
• CVS Minute Clinic
• With More Freedom, A Nurse-Led Model for Healthcare is Gaining Ground During Pandemic
• CVS Health, Microsoft Partner To Bring ‘Digital First’ Care To Customers
• Why Providers Chose MinuteClinic
• ‘Protect and Invest’: WHO Calls For 6m More Nurses Worldwide
• World Health Organization’s State of the World’s Nursing Report - 2020
• America Stopped Treating Healthcare Workers Like Heroes
• Effective Decision-Making During the Pandemic
• Toward a Uniform Classification of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Laws

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous, and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, rethink how healthcare is organized and where it’s delivered.

Moved by the unprecedented stress and strain on nurses and our health systems, Johnson & Johnson, in partnership with the American Nurses Associationand the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, set out to understand the various ways that the nursing profession evolved amidst the pandemic. From the stories and data emerged the pointed Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report -- one that offers a deeper understanding on how the pandemic transformed nursing practice and how the momentum of these innovations can steer us to a much better and preferred future of the profession.

In this second of a multi-episode series centered on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report we go behind the scenes on a “listening adventure” and hear how the pandemic changed people’s access to care, their care needs, and the impact on the well-being of the healthcare workforce, and learn through thought-provoking stories, experiences, and fine details how three nurse changemakers are weaving the needed innovations into their organizations, care delivery, and workforce to Accelerate Nursing and Transform Healthcare.

Guests

• Julie Kennedy-Oehlert, DNP, RN Chief Experience Officer,Vidant Health
• Dallas Ducar, MSN, APRN and CEO TranshealthNorthampton
• Angela Patterson, DNP, FNP-BC, NEA-BC, FAANP, Vice President, CVS Health and Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer at CVS Minute Clinic
• Lynda Benton Senior Director Strategic Initiatives Global Community Impact Johnson & Johnson

Episode Resources

• Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research and HighlightsJohnson & Johnson
• American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care - STAT
• Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: COVID-19 Care
• Vidant Health: Changing Healthcare From the Inside Out
• Creating Workplace Equity to Achieve Health Equity
• Transhealth Northampton
• CVS Minute Clinics

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous, and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, rethink how healthcare is organized, and where it’s delivered.

Moved by the unprecedented stress and strain on nurses and our health systems, Johnson & Johnson, in partnership with the American Nurses Association and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, set out to understand the various ways that the nursing profession evolved amidst the pandemic. From the stories and data emerged the pointed Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report -- one that offers a deeper understanding on how the pandemic transformed nursing practice and how the momentum of these innovations can steer us to a much better and preferred future of the profession.

In this first of a multi episode series, we center on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Reportand how it coincides with the National Academy of Medicine’s Future of Nursing Reports, and The Future Today Institute’s Tech Trends Report to serve as relevant, actionable playbooks for reducing uncertainty, managing complexity, and building on the momentum of positive change emerging from the COVID pandemic to accelerate nursing and transform healthcare.

Guest(s) Featured in this Episode
• Sue Hassmiller PhD, RN, FAAN Sr Adv Nursing, RWJF; Dir. Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action; Sr Scholar in Residence National Academy of Medicine
• Amy Webb Futurist, Author, Founder & CEO of the Future Today Institute
• Lynda Benton Senior Director Strategic Initiatives Global Community Impact Johnson & Johnson

Affiliations
• Sue Hassmiller The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. National Academy of Medicine
• Amy Webb The Future Today Institute
• Lynda Benton Johnson & Johnson Global Community Impact

Episode Resources
• Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research and HighlightsJohnson & Johnson, American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• The Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity
• The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2010-2020)
• Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care - STAT
• The Future Today Institute
• 2021 Tech Trends Report
• Amy Webb: Emerging Tech Trends Report/SXSW Live Studio
• Open Source Foresight Frameworks and Tools
• The Future of Healthcare Lies With Nurses
• How Do We Keep The Nursing Shortage From Getting Worse?
• Trust Us. Nurses Are at a Breaking Point

Vaccines and vaccination—they’ve become one of the hottest topics of public discourse. Indeed, the Oxford Languages 2021 Word of the Year is Vax. As their pun-filled news release notes, "more than any other word, 'vax' has injected itself into the bloodstream of the English language in 2021.” With regulatory approval of a COVID vaccine for kids ages 5-11, COVID boosters for adults 65 and older and those at a higher risk for COVID, and the World Health Organization recommending widespread use of a long-awaited malaria vaccine for children, there is much vaccine progress and science to celebrate and understand.

In this episode, we check in with Melody Butler, BSN, RN, CIC, the Founder and Executive Director ofNurses Who Vaccinate, to get an update on how she and nurses around the world are responding, mobilizing, and innovating our vaccination efforts, messaging, and communication strategies. This conversation is particularly relevant at a time when an explosion of misinformation is fueling vaccine hesitancy and children and adults around the world need to catch up on all their life-saving vaccinations.

Guest(s) Featured in this Episode
• Melody Butler, BSN, RN, CIC

Episode Resources
• Vaccines.gov
• Nurses Who Vaccinate
• CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
•Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
• Medical groups call for mandatory vaccination of U.S. health care workers
• Joint Statement in Support of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for All Workers in Health and Long-Term Care
• Past Pandemics Remind Us, COVID Will Be an Era, Not a Crisis That Fades
• Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows
• The Disinformation Dozen
• The Right (and wrong) Way To Talk To People About Getting Vaccinated
• Nurse Leader Shares Five Lessons on Breaking Down Barriers to Vaccination
• Vaccine Conversations Go Door-to-Door, One Neighbor At a Time
• Nurse Practitioner Tarik Khan Races to Deliver Vaccines to The Homebound
• Medical groups call for mandatory vaccination of U.S. health care workers
• Joint Statement in Support of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for All Workers in Health and Long-Term Care
• Vaccine Confidence Project
• The COVID Project
• KFF Covid-19 Vaccine Monitor
• World Health Organization Immunization Dashboard
• COVID Vaccine Facts For Nurses
• ANA Position Statement on Immunizations

Hackathons provide a fast-paced, high energy, community-building opportunity for a wide spectrum of participants to flex their innovation muscles and solve for some of today’s greatest challenges. While these events have traditionally been geared towards computer scientists and software developers, in recent years nurses, clinicians, and health innovators have started to convene health-challenge inspired events. Today the health hackathon landscape is exciting, rapidly evolving, and nurses are playing a lead role in driving them. In this episode, we learn from health influencers, hackers, and innovators Jane Sarashon-Kahn, MA, MHSA; Chris Recinos, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, NEA-BC; Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, BSN ‘21; and Jennifferre Mancillas, BSN, RN, RNC-NIC about how hackathons have impacted their thinking, skills, lives, career trajectory, as well as the landscape of innovative health solutions and products. And -- why you should register your interest at NurseHack4Health.org.

Guests Featured in this Episode

• Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, MA, MHSA
• Chris Recinos, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, NEA-BC
• Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, BSN ‘21
• Jennifferre Mancillas, BSN, RN
• Marion Leary, RN, MSN, MPH, FAHA
• Rebecca Love RN, MSN, FIEL

Episode Resources

• Register to Nurse Hack 4 Health
• Nurse Innovation Hackathon Skills and Resources
• Nurse Innovation 101 Hub
• The 'Great Resignation' Is Finally Getting Companies to Take Burnout Seriously. Is It Enough?
• Health workers know what good care is. Pandemic burnout is getting in the way
• The Lumify Care Story: The Impact of a Nurse Hackathon (video)
• Y Combinator startup Lumify Care, cofounded by a Penn grad, is the accelerator’s first nurse-led team
• HealthPopuli -- A blog covering the health/care ecosystem and people by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
• HealthConsuming -- From Health Consumer to Health Citizen by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

People newly diagnosed and living with chronic conditions increasingly turn to technology, the internet and social media seeking information and education, to share clinical information and the latest research, to receive and provide support, and to share solutions and resources. In the spirit of “meeting people where they are,” clinicians are following and joining patients in these social spaces, learning a lot -- and together -- are improving health.

In this episode we hear how Nurse Practitioner Michelle Litchman, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP, FADCES, FAAN practices and innovates at the intersection of diabetes, digital health, and disparities. Searching digital spaces, online resources and communities she discovers the specific needs and pain points that patients and families are experiencing. Her work to better assess and address the many dimensions of access and accessibility led to an awareness and understanding of why people with diabetes are foregoing basic needs and taking part in "life exchanges'' of trading of insulin and medical supplies just to stay healthy, and to the subsequent passage of legislation offering an important lifeline to those who depend on insulin to survive. In her research and innovation, she shares the value of collaborating with citizen scientists so the patients’ story and experience are reflected in the research, policies, and solutions.

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Guest
Michelle Litchman, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP, FADCES, FAAN

Episode Resources

• The Fakebetes Challenge
• Social Media and Diabetes: Can Facebook and Skype Improve Glucose Control in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes on Pump Therapy? One-Year Experience
• Why Diabetes Patients Are Getting Insulin From Facebook
• “Everyone Included” Social Media Research Challenge
• Diabetes Program Accessibility for People Who Are Deaf
• U of U Health Expert Aids Passage of Diabetes Legislation
• Why #WeAreNotWaiting—Motivations and Self-Reported Outcomes Among Users of Open-source Automated Insulin Delivery Systems: Multinational Survey

Our lives can become governed by routines. So much so that little changes—like a detour on the way to work, or an unexpected phone call—can have unimaginable consequences. Maria Striemer, RN, BA, was in the emergency department when she treated a child accidentally left in a car from heat exhaustion. Unable to leave the experience behind, Maria began a journey that was anything but routine. She and her engineer husband worked to develop BackseetBuddy, a sensor that uses a Bluetooth connected app to detect when a phone has moved more than 50 meters from a car seat and sends a phone alert. Along the way, she contended with negative feedback, setbacks, and a global pandemic that put Backseet Buddy on-hold. This inspired an awareness campaign, and an entirely new product that protects the ears of frontline workers forced to wear masks for extended periods of time. In this Moment of Awareness, Maria’s experience developing the Backseet Buddy is emblematic of her nursing career: using collaboration to build, often from the bottom up, novel ways to keep people safe.

Guest(s) Featured in this Episode
• Maria Striemer, RN, BA

Episode Resources
• Keeping Kids Safe. Facts from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• KidsAndCars.org: An advocacy center that conducts research on car-related dangers surrounding children
• Backseet Buddy
• Nurse Invents Phone App to Support Child Car Safety
• Save The Ears Campaign

Necessity is often cited as the Mother of Invention. And, nurses who have been part of the inventing process share that exasperation, empathy, and determination are members of the same family. While caring for a patient in an interventional radiology lab and witnessing the exasperation on a patient’s face while struggling to secure a fluid-filled leg bag, nurse and inventor Brian Mohika, RN, BSN, was inspired to create smart, active-living underwear designed to secure catheters and fluid collection bags. He knew people needed solutions that were practical, comfortable, washable, discreet, and liberating. Brian stated, “it is about more than just selling a medical product. It’s about improving lives and returning people to actively living theirs.”

In this Moment of Awareness, Brian shares his invention story and the motivation and audacity required to bring the vision.

Guest(s) Featured in this Episode

• Brian Mohika, RN, BSN

Episode Resources

• CathWear
• From Inventor to Entrepreneur: Inspiring Lessons from Nurse Brian Mohika
• Let it Flow: One Nurse's Entrepreneurial Journey by Brian Mohika, BSN, RN, CEO

Voting and Health. It's not a pairing that readily springs to mind, but the COVID pandemic, for many reasons, placed a magnifying glass on this important duo and how they impact and amplify one another and dramatically shape community health. A growing body of research confirms that the root and distribution of many diseases start with a lack of equitable, prevention-oriented policies. On a daily basis, in every healthcare setting, health teams see the unhappy faces and stressful circumstances of failing health policies and the direct connection between voter access and the critical path to improving our health policies, reducing health inequities, and building healthier and representative democracies. In this episode, as part of the growing Civic Health movement and its nationwide effort to expand and normalize healthcare settings as community touchpoints for voter access and engagement, we’re taking a closer listen to the experiences and insights of three civic health innovators who provide compelling evidence and data for why healthcare settings and healthcare professionals are particularly effective messengers and catalysts for voter engagement. Together, they have
collectively created and built NursesWhoVote, Democracy at Discharge, Vot-ER, and the Healthy Democracy Kit.

Guest(s) Featured in this Episode

• Elizabeth Cohn RN, NP, PhD
• Alistair Martin MD, MPP
• Aliya Bhatia, MPP

Episode Resources

• Vot-ER and the Healthy Democracy Kit
• Nurses Who Vote
• Civic Health Month
• 2021 Civic Health Conference Presentations
• Voting, health and interventions in healthcare settings: a scoping review
• We Can Boost Low Vaccination Rates The Same Way We Raise Voter Turnout
• National Voter Registration Act

As we wrap up Season 5 and roll into our summer break, we’re catching our breath from a busy few months exploring, celebrating, and innovating that included elevating National Nurses Month, issuing a call to action for nurses around the world to join the NurseHack4Health, getting an update on the global Nursing Now Campaign as it transitions to the Nursing Now Challenge, introducing a special series Meeting of Minds, and having three SEE YOU NOW episodes selected as finalists in the ShareCare Awards that recognize best-in-class productions promoting well-being and capturing the spirit of "sharing care." Season 5 also included remarkable storytelling of how nurses are innovating on truly gargantuan health challenges like our staggering mental health crisis, Black maternal health in the US, the care needs of older adults around the planet, AND the health of our planet. With the summer sun stretching our days longer, it’s a perfect opportunity for reflecting on what we’ve heard, learned, and experienced so we’ve created a summer listen-listto fill your ears and imagination with great ideas, innovations, and inspiration to enjoy and share. Throughout the summer we have some hot features coming your way so stay tuned! Our next season launches in October and while the team is busy in the production studio, we encourage you to enjoy our library of episodes, take a moment to rate and review the podcast, and share it with others. Good health is a team sport and the more fans we have, the healthier we’ll all be. Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com. Visit our website atwww.seeyounowpodcast.com.

Episode Resources

• Summer 2021 Listen-List to fill your ears and imagination with incredible stories of nurse-led innovation
• SEE YOU NOW episodes selected as finalists in ShareCare Awards
• Nursing Now Challenge Championing Development Opportunities for nurses and midwives around the world

In this special edition of SEE YOU NOW, we’re honoring our very first national Juneteenth holiday. As a podcast focused on how nurse-led innovation is strengthening our healthcare systems and transforming lives, we’re marking this historic moment with a health equity playlist to amplify and elevate the scholarship, innovation, leadership, and contributions of Black nurses toward building healthier communities, families, and experiences. While meaningful progress has been made in reducing health disparities, there remains so much more to do in our race toward health equity. We invite and urge you to listen, learn from, follow, engage, elevate, and cite Black nurses and their courageous and groundbreaking work and contributions to moving health equity forward. In this episode, you’ll hear a sampling of nurses who are innovating on the front lines of health equity. Click here to enjoy our full Juneteenth playlist.

Episode Resources

• What is Juneteenth? An interview with Scholar and Historian Lori Brooks
• President Biden Signs Juneteenth Bill Creating a New Federal Holiday
• On Juneteenth. An interview with historian and award-winning author Annette Gordon Reed

Honoring Juneteenth with SEE YOU NOW
A playlist featuring and elevating nurses who are driving health equity forward

• 44. Way More Than a Health Plan
• 40. Counting on Faith
• 32. Bridges To Fatherhood
• 39. Real World Data. Real Life Results
• 47. A Vote For Mom’s Health
• 31. Black Midwives & Mamas Matter
• 38. Mentoring for a More Equitable Future

Issac Asimov believed robots could have a true humanizing influence, and one day do the work to make life easier, freeing us to do the work that makes life worthwhile. For many nurses, caring for patients is that worthwhile work. However, studies have shown that roughly 30 percent of a nursing shift is devoted to patient care, with the rest given over to other tasks like finding medications, tracking down equipment, tracking down supplies, and documentation. So the question is, how can we give time back to nurses, so they can put patients—and themselves—first? It’s an urgent question, as the demands and pressures for health care efficiency continue to rise, while experienced nurses retire, nursing schools struggle to expand capacity, and the COVID pandemic stretches staffing to extreme limits. Enter Moxi, a robot—and patient selfie favorite—designed to help nurses complete routine, non-patient facing tasks. In this episode of Meeting of Minds, David Marshall, JD, DNP, RN, FAAN, senior vice president and chief nursing executive at Cedars Sinai and renowned social robotics expert, and Andrea Thomaz, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Diligent Robotics, sit down to discuss how nurses can lead interdisciplinary collaboration, the important role chief nursing officers can play in encouraging staff innovation, and the need for nurses to practice at the top of their license. At the center of their discussion is Moxi, a piece of technology designed to assist but never replace the priceless value and human interaction that nurses bring to patient care. Together, David, Andrea, and Moxi are proving that Nurse Robot Assistants can help reduce nurse fatigue and give nurses time back to care for patients, practice self-care, and focus on the big picture. Because no matter how advanced they become, robots don't take care of people. People take care of people.

Guest(s) Featured in this Episode

• David Marshall, JD, DNP, RN, FAAN
• Andrea Thomaz, PhD

Episode Resources

• David Marshall Bio
• Andrea Thomaz Bio
• Moxi
• Robotics and the Impact on Nursing Practice

The health of our planet is in serious condition. Climate change is anticipated to result in increasingly warmer global temperatures, more extreme weather events, and rising sea levels. Without accelerated intervention and broad scale innovation across all economic sectors, we face devastating effects on global water and food supplies, critical infrastructure and supply chains, physical and mental health, and a less certain future. Understanding the impacts of climate change on human health is vitally important for the global population. You can’t have healthy people without a healthy environment: something that health professionals today increasingly understand. Just as nurses are skilled at turning around a health crisis that humans can experience -- they’re also well trained and ideally positioned for addressing the critical condition of our planet. In this episode we meet Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director of Planetary Health for the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota to learn how nurses can and are reducing greenhouse emissions, find out why educating girls is key to a healthier planet, and discover who the best intergenerational storytellers are for helping us understand our relationship to and stewardship of the planet and where to innovate to improve its health. Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com. For additional resources, visit our website at www.seeyounowpodcast.com.

University of Minnesota, School of Nursing Planetary Health

Guest(s) Featured in this Episode

• Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN

Episode Resources

• Earth Day
• Planetary Health Alliance
• Project Drawdown
• Alliance of Nurses For Health Environments
• Nurses Drawdown
• Want to Fight Climate Change? Educate A Girl

A common stereotype of aging is an era of decline and shrinking horizons. The reality is far more nuanced. The process of aging isn’t uniform and many will find their health and functional trajectories widening as they get older. In fact some, like President Joe Biden or pioneering nurse-midwife Ruth Lubic, won’t make their greatest contributions until their later years. A key to healthy aging is maintaining or improving your health, which for our oldest adults, largely falls outside of healthcare facilities. For many, health allows us to feel safe wherever we are. Led by Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN, the CAPABLE (Community Aging in Place—Advancing Better Living for Elders) program aims to improve both the function and cost of elderly care, by teaming a nurse, an occupational therapist and a handy worker to address the home environment, while encouraging the strengths of the older adults themselves to improve safety, independence, and ensuring dignity based on the client’s goals. By installing small, cost effective yet thoughtful adaptations to the home environment, older adults can ease the navigation of activities of daily living—things like bathing, dressing, standing to cook, moving up and down stairs—that sustain and promote their physical, mental, and emotional energy—leading to richer lives full of creativity and meaningful contribution.

Guests Featured in this Episode
Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN

Episode Resources
• Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN
• CAPABLE
• Older Americans Month 2021
• CAPABLE Video: Aging vignette featuring Sarah Szanton / We Got This
• CAPABLE Video: Sarah Szanton - Heinz Award
• Many Older Adults Lack Even Simple, Helpful Equipment
• Effect of a Biobehavioral Environmental Approach on Disability Among Low-Income Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial

How do you build, staff, and stand up an online psychiatry and therapy office over the course of 45 days? And in a pandemic, no less? For Lavender founders and seasoned entrepreneurs Pritma Dhillon Chattha, DNP MHA RN and Brighid Gannon, DNP, PMHNP-BC it was experiencing first-hand how the pandemic was moving every aspect of our lives online at lightning speed; hearing from colleagues seeking mental health support the countless difficulties they encountered navigating and accessing services; and having the business skills and entrepreneurial experience to seize the moment to design and deliver much needed innovation in the psychiatric care. Pritma and Brighid are making mental healthcare more affordable and accessible by bringing business operation tools that may not be innovative in other industries into mental health services. And while the headline of this story is innovating in mental health services delivery, an equally remarkable headline is how their workforce and workplace innovation is reducing the stigma of seeking care through private on-line therapy, and increasing the availability of mental health professionals while offering providers the work flexibility they need to do so.

Guests Featured in this Episode
Pritma Dhillon Chattha, DNP MHA RN
Brighid Gannon, DNP, PMHNP-BC

Episode Resources
• Mental Health, Substance Use, and Suicidal Ideation During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, June 24–30, 2020
• Health plan adds more than 400 mental health clinicians to network to help meet demand
• Lavender

Think about what you might have learned had you been in the room with some of the most fruitful partnerships of our time: Jobs and Wozniak; Warhol and Basquiat; Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. That’s what our Meeting of Minds series is meant to do: to take you behind the scenes to listen in on conversations between chief nurse officers and leaders from disciplines inside and outside of healthcare who are driving innovation. This week, we bring together in conversation two incredible leaders and innovators: Kathy Driscoll, MSN, RN, CCM, Chief Nursing Officer at Humana Inc., and Kathryn Tart, EdD, MSN, RN, founding dean of the University of Houston's College of Nursing. Both have formed a unique collaboration through Humana’s Integrated Health System Sciences Institute at the University of Houston to train current and future healthcare leaders with a focus on providing holistic and collaborative care to improve health outcomes. The Institute’s unique and diverse programs aim to solve complex issues related to social determinants of health: social isolation, food insecurity, homelessness, and access to transportation for the Houston community. And it’s a win-win. Kathy and Kathryn’s efforts are strengthening the skills of nurses and of nursing students, as well as those beyond the medical field.

Guests Featured in this Episode

• Kathy Driscoll, MSN, RN, CCM
• Kathryn Tart, EdD, MSN, RN

Affiliations

• Humana Inc.
• University of Houston School of Nursing

Episode Resources

• The Humana Integrated Health System Sciences Institute at the University of Houston
• Papa: Addressing loneliness through companionship
• Kathryn Tart Biography
• Kathy Driscoll Biography
• The Voice of Humana Nurses Podcast

May 12 is International Nurses Day, chosen to commemorate the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, the British nurse, social reformer and statistician best known as the founder of modern nursing. To mark the moment, we’re returning to an earlier episode, a pre-pandemic episode, and listening with an altered, heightened understanding and urgency of the need to raise awareness on the impact nurses have in transforming health systems, and the critical need for nurse leadership and innovation. The past year has certainly raised visibility of nurses and highlighted their essential role in improving global health. In this episode, Barbara Stilwell, PhD, RN, FRCN, a nurse, researcher, policy expert, and Executive Director of the Nursing Now global campaign, seeks to elevate the nursing profession, sharing the power of nurses connecting and uniting to tackle big problems like gender and economic inequality while improving health outcomes — the episode is as relevant today as when it first aired. Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com. For additional resources, visit our website at www.seeyounowpodcast.com.

Guests Featured in this Episode

• Barbara Stilwell

Episode Resources

• WHO State of the World’s Nursing Report - 2020
• Nursing Now - 2020: The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife
• Nursing Now - Nightingale Challenge 2020
• Nursing Now - Vision
• Triple Impact: A Report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health
• Investing in Nurse Leadership Report
• WHO Year of the Health and Care Workers 2021

This Mother’s Day, as we celebrate and honor the moms/mums/aunts/aunties/grandmothers and maternal figures in our lives, we must also acknowledge the ongoing maternal health crisis in the United States. It is a crisis that Representative and Nurse Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14) understands well, especially its severe impact on Black mothers. Marrying her nursing background with a genuine enthusiasm for the power of policy to improve and save lives, she co-founded the Black Maternal Health Caucus and introduced The Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021. A comprehensive legislative solution, the Momnibus covers everything from the intersection between the COVID-19 pandemic, being a pregnant person of color, to the impact of extreme heat and air pollution on maternal and infant health outcomes. This legislation will drive innovation in practice—a bill that will scale transformative care by matching policy with science and data. It is also a reminder that there are solutions to longstanding inequities and problems, if we are bold enough to enact them. Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com. For addition resources, visit our website at www.seeyounowpodcast.com.

Guests Featured in this Episode

• Representative Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14)

Episode Resources

• White House Declares Black Maternal Health Week
• Black Maternal Health Caucus Momnibus Bill
• US Black Mothers Die In Childbirth At Three Times The Rate Of White Mothers
• ProPublica Lost Mothers Project
• A Clarion Warning About Pregnancy Outcomes and the Climate Crisis
• National Birth Equity Collaborative
• World Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day

Hackathons provide a fast-paced, high energy, community-building opportunity for a wide spectrum of participants to flex their innovation muscles and solve for some of today’s greatest challenges. While these events have traditionally been geared towards computer scientists and software developers in recent years nurses, clinicians, and health innovators have started to convene health-challenge inspired events. Today the health hackathon landscape is exciting, rapidly evolving, and nurses are playing a lead role in driving them. In this episode, we learn from health influencers, hackers, and innovators Jane Sarashon-Kahn, MA, MHSA; Chris Recinos, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, NEA-BC; Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, BSN ‘21, and Jennifferre Mancillas, BSN, RN, RNC-NIC about how hackathons have impacted their thinking, skills, lives, career trajectory, as well as the landscape of innovative health solutions and products. And -- why you should register your interest at NurseHack4Health.org.

Guests Featured in this Episode

• Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, MA, MHSA
• Chris Recinos, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, NEA-BC
• Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, BSN ‘21
• Jennifferre Mancillas, BSN, RN
• Marion Leary, RN, MSN, MPH, FAHA
• Rebecca Love RN, MSN, FIEL

Episode Resources

• Nurse Hack 4 Health
• Nurse Innovation Hackathon Skills and Resources
• Nurse Innovation 101 Hub
• The Lumify Care Story: The Impact of a Nurse Hackathon (video)
• #NurseHack4Health : Pandemic Management Improving Education & Communication (video)
• HealthPopuli -- A blog covering the health/care ecosystem and people by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
• Lumify Care
• HealthConsuming -- From Health Consumer to Health Citizen by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
• Hackathons

This January marked one year since the launch of SEE YOU NOW. To kick off our second year, we explored everything from disaster preparedness and vaccines, to data and working with faith leaders as key collaborators in health innovation. In each episode, we asked how the pandemic has revealed new needs, amplified existing unmet needs, and exacerbated health disparities. And, more importantly, we discuss what solutions are being developed to address the most significant health challenges of today with distinguished experts with decades of experience, expertise and insights.

We’ll be sharing more enlightening, thoughtful and uplifting conversations in a few weeks. In the meantime, we encourage you to go back through our library of episodes, rate and review the shows you love, and share them with your friends. And please share your stories with us. We want to hear what problems you are seeing and solving. Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com. For addition resources, visit our website at www.seeyounowpodcast.com.

There is a growing body of evidence and experience supporting our understanding of and investing in the social determinants and drivers of health—the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. We’re seeing that manifest with a wide range of innovations in every corner of our healthcare delivery system, including innovations in health plans, health insurance, and payment and delivery models. In this episode, meet nurse and health plan innovator Karen Dale, MSN, RN, Market President and CEO for AmeriHealth Caritas, and dive deep into the details of how innovations in health plans and health insurance can and should focus on getting you care, helping you stay well and build healthy communities.

Guests Featured in This Episode
● Karen Dale, MSN, RN

Episode Resources
● AmeriHealth Caritas
● Building a Better Delivery System
● Transformational change in health care systems: an organizational model
● The RAND Corporation, The Future of U.S. Health Care: Replace or Revise the Affordable Care Act?
● In Search of the Perfect Health System by Mark Britnell
● The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid

Why do Americans struggle getting access to health care? It's a big question, and a big problem. One with serious consequences. Despite the plethora of health care systems, services, practitioners, and technology available throughout the United States, for many people, access to care is frustratingly difficult and frequently includes long wait times. And too often, the care people are able to access doesn’t meet their needs and may not be the care they deserve. In this episode, nurse practitioner Wendy Wright, APRN, FAANP, examines a fresh model for primary care where access, time, presence, data, and innovation are key to how her nurse practitioner-led primary care clinics are meeting people where they are—even if that’s in the front seat of their car, under a tent, or in a parking lot!

Guests Featured in this Episode
● Wendy Wright, APRN, FAANP

Episode Resources
● Wall Street Journal, The Doctor Won’t See You Now
● New York Times, Advanced Cancers Are Emerging, Doctors Warn, Citing Pandemic Drop in Screenings
● University of Southern California study: COVID-19 reduced U.S. life expectancy, especially among Black and Latino populations
● PNAS study: Reductions in 2020 US life expectancy due to COVID-19 and the disproportionate impact on the Black and Latino populations
● Kaiser Health News, Thousands of Doctors’ Offices Buckle Under Financial Stress of COVID
● New York Times, A Grim Measure of Covid’s Toll: Life Expectancy Drops Sharply in U.S.

Public health emergencies ranging from weather-related events, man-made hazards and pathogen-based outbreaks and epidemics are far more common and increasing in frequency than one might imagine. The reality is there are many public health hazards with the potential to create catastrophic events that will have negative health outcomes for communities and the people who live in them as well as inflicting serious damage to the health systems and professionals responding to these crises and disasters. In this episode we meet disasters head-on at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security by visiting with nurse scientist and innovator Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, RN, FAAN, who spends all her waking hours (and some sleepless nights) considering the science, technology, and innovations that are being deployed to strengthen health systems, build community resilience, and protect national security.

Guests Featured in This Episode

● Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, RN, FAAN

Episode Resources

● Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
● Daily Nurse, Teaching Disaster Nursing in the COVID Era: a Talk with Tener Veenema
● Forbes, Why America’s Nurses Were Not Prepared For The Coronavirus Pandemic
● Disaster Nursing App
● Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Recommendations for Improving National Nurse Preparedness for Pandemic Response: Early Lessons from COVID-19
● New York Times, The Best Response to Disaster Is Resilience
● HHS Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Information Gateway
● Ready.gov
● American Red Cross Disaster Preparedness
● Medical Reserve Corps
● National Association of County and City Health Officials
● HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response

The swift development, authorization and manufacturing of the COVID-19 vaccines have been a remarkable scientific feat that conjures up the great stories of science achievement. While vaccines and vaccination are widely considered one of the great success stories in public health, they may also have become a victim of their own remarkable success; a success that can lead to complacency about the benefits of vaccination and a focus on the potential risks or side effects. These hesitations can compromise vaccination programs and leave populations susceptible to outbreaks—a situation where no one is truly safe, because not enough of us are vaccinated. We've seen remarkable progress in vaccine technology; however, progress in vaccine confidence and distribution, trust in science, and confidence in our institutions tell a different story. In this episode, we dive deep into the science of vaccines with Christine Grady, MSN, PhD; Ernest Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN; Jaquelin P Dudley, PhD; and Lori Boyle, MSN, AGPCNP. Together we discuss the ethics and details of clinical trials and vaccine distribution, and the role that nurses specifically play in developing vaccine confidence and innovating to rapidly and safely achieve mass COVID-19 vaccination.

Guests Featured in This Episode
● Christine Grady, MSN, PhD
● Ernest Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN
● Jaquelin P Dudley, PhD
● Lori Boyle, MSN, AGPCNP

Additional Resources
● World Health Organization, Immunization
● Nursing World, Pulse of the Nation’s Nurses COVID-19 Survey Series: Covid-19 Vaccine Survey
● New Yorker, Why Are So Many Health Care Workers Resisting the Covid Vaccine?
● ProPublica, Vaccine Distribution Readiness -- Most States Aren’t Ready
● The Hill, Who Should Get Vaccinated Next?
● Los Angeles Times, The Ethics of Vaccine Prioritization and Distribution
● The Challenge of a Lifetime: How to Get Billions of COVID-19 Vaccines Around The World
● Nursing World, A Nursing Approach to the Largest Measles Outbreak in Recent U.S. History: Lessons Learned Battling Homegrown Vaccine Hesitancy

There has been a long-standing relationship between faith, clergy, health, and healthcare. Faith-based partnerships have forged and furthered public health goals historically and more importantly, at present. Clergy and faith-based organizations are pivotal and trusted players in their communities providing service, leadership, connection, communication, distribution of services, and increasingly, innovation. In this episode we explore with UK HealthCare’s Chief Diversity Officer Tukea Talbert DNP, RN, CDP how partnerships with our communities’ faith leaders and congregations can build trust, break systemic barriers to access, and move toward health equity.

Guests Featured in This Episode
Tukea Talbert DNP, RN, CDP

Additional Resources
● Religion As A Social Determinant of Health
● Faith Based Organizations and Public Health: Another Facet of the Public Health Dialogue
● UK Healthcare DEI Council Spreads Holiday Cheer Through Crucial Conversation Series

The use of data is rapidly shaping and transforming every aspect of how we measure, track, research, and deliver healthcare. Using large data sets, innovators have been unleashing technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis to open entirely new avenues to understand health conditions, the circumstances in which they arise, and personalized approaches to addressing them. Cancer care is one area where the use of data is rapidly transforming every facet of care, and one rapidly evolving development is the use of real world data to provide important insights that often have not been answered using data from the highly prized clinical trials data. One very specific area that data—particularly real world data—is helping us to understand is how race and ethnicity play a role in disparities in care and outcomes. In this episode, we go deep into the data weeds with clinician, innovator, and data specialist Kathleen Maignan, AGPCNP-BC, MSN, OCN, to reveal what stories the data really has to tell.

Guests Featured in This Episode
Kathleen Maignan, AGPCNP-BC, MSN, OCN

Episode Resources
Flatiron, Learn about real-world data and its appications in oncology
Nature, “Real-world data: towards achieving the achievable in cancer care”
Cancer World, “Real world data: can we rely on it to shape cancer policies and practice?”

Think of the countless individuals seeking care daily in our clinics, pharmacies, hospitals, schools, and all manner of health care setting. To best communicate, understand, and build trust, it’s vital that patients see people in the healthcare workforce who look, speak, eat, pray, and live like they do.

Our healthcare workforce is far from diverse, representative of our population, or a reflection of our communities and the people we care for. And that is problematic. This representation pipeline problem takes root early on in our educational settings.

In this episode, we meet nurse anesthetist, founder and CEO of Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program, Wallena Gould, EdD, CRNA, FAAN, whose personal experiences led to a recognition of the scope and root problems that prevent innovation from being impactful or scaled, which led to a body of work that has been applied across healthcare to forge a more equitable future.

Episode Resources

Diversity in Nurse Anesthesia Mentorship Program
Dr. Wallena Gould’s Keynote Speech at the 2016 Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden Commencement
Diversity in Healthcare: The Importance of Representation
The New Yorker, “Slow Ideas” by Atul Gawande
“Diffusions of Innovation” by Everett Rogers
CRNA Goldie Brangman on Treating Dr. Martin Luther King

As SEE YOU NOW celebrates its first year of remarkable stories of innovations and innovators and launches into its second year of storytelling, we wanted to return to our first episode to ground the importance of our focus on nurse-led innovation, and to listen with new ears tuned to where we are now in 2021. When SEE YOU NOW launched in January of 2020, health systems across the world were feeling the strains of ever increasing demands driven by an aging population, widening health disparities, and rapidly growing healthcare workforce shortages. We posed the weighty, existential questions—“Why THIS podcast and why NOW?”—and that was just a few weeks before nurses and health innovators across the world would be called upon to respond to COVID-19. The pandemic is a generational, global health and economic crisis that drastically, dramatically, and rapidly changed how we live, work, play, and pray, and is driving an unprecedented demand for nurse innovation, in real time. So much of what we explored in our first episode remains prescient and vital. Now more than ever, the SEE YOU NOW stories of health innovation and the nurses leading them are critical to improving health and saving lives.

Episode Resources

● The American Nurses Association - What is Nursing?, https://bit.ly/2Rz1t1d

● Sigma Theta Tau International - “The Woodhull study on nursing and the media: Health care’s invisible partner: Final report,” https://bit.ly/35WEW3f

● Journal of Nursing Scholarship, “The Woodhull Study Revisited: Nurses’ Representation in Health News Media 20 years Later,” https://bit.ly/3adLHkW

● World Health Organization - International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife designation and campaign, https://bit.ly/35UUUuM

● Nursing Now - 2020: The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, https://bit.ly/35RrbmF

● IntraHealth - Investing in the Power of Nurse Leadership Report, https://bit.ly/2Tp3SOy

● The New Yorker - “Amid a Measles Outbreak, an Ultra-Orthodox Nurse Fights Vaccination Fears in Her Community,” https://bit.ly/2FLHt61

A round of thanks to our SEE YOU NOW podcast listeners for tuning in each week to hear incredible stories of nurse-led innovation! We’ve prepared a special holiday message to extend our sincerest gratitude and to thank you for your support this first year. We can’t wait to introduce you to even more incredible nurse innovators and their stories when we return with new episodes later this month. If you liked what you heard this year, please take a moment to subscribe using your favorite podcast platform and share with your fellow nurses!

Each year, thousands of lives are saved and improved through organ and tissue donation. But despite the remarkable advances in organ recovery, more than 100,000 Americans are currently waiting for a lifesaving transplant with 33 dying every day for lack of an organ. This episode spotlights two nurse CEOs innovating at the system level to maximize organ availability. Ginny McBride, RN, MPH, Executive Director of OurLegacy Organ & Tissue Donor Services at Advent Health in Orlando, Florida, and Patti Niles, RN, BSN, CPTC, CEO of Southwest Transport Alliance in Dallas, Texas, are two nurse innovators from organ procurement organizations (OPOs) working to modernize and streamline organ donor management systems across the nation. Working closely with patients, families, and care teams provides them an understanding of the complexities of organ donation and transplantation enabling them to see the big picture and take action where innovations in health information exchange, donor management, and procurement can have an impact on a national scale. Tune in to hear about the groundbreaking work these nurses are leading so more people are able to give and receive the gift of a lifetime.

Episode Resources

U.S. Government Information on Organ Donation and Transplantation
Organ Donation Facts
The Costly Effects of an Outdated Organ Donation System
Transforming Organ Donation in America
Organ Donor Designations By State

Flattening the curve. Testing and contact tracing. Social distancing. Not only have these practices become part of our daily routines, but they are also the primary tools of the public health emergency response to COVID-19. In this episode, we meet Kathleen Blaney, MPH, RN, Director of Disease Control Emergency Preparedness at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Kathleen recounts the story of building the NYC Test & Trace Corps, a public health initiative to fight the threat of COVID-19 and one of the largest contact tracing endeavors in modern history, which in a matter of weeks trained and onboarded over 3,000 new contact tracers—remotely. She shares how the highly personal nature of contact tracing can strengthen science literacy and vaccine confidence, reduce health disparities, and even help build trust in both public institutions and each other amid the pandemic and beyond.

Episode Resources

· https://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/test-and-trace
· Notes from the Field: Interventions to Reduce Measles Virus Exposures in Outpatient Health Care Facilities — New York City, 2018, CDC
·https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20201207.458415/

Artificial intelligence (AI) has come a long way since being formally established as a field in 1956. Today, AI operates seamlessly in most every facet of our daily lives—and increasingly into more and more aspects of healthcare and how nurses are caring for people, and for entire populations. With the amount of health data and the rate at which we’re generating it, combined with the extraordinary computing power of machines, we're at a point where AI can see patterns we can't and tell us things we didn't know, before they happen!

In this episode, we meet nurse and innovation sherpa Robbie Freeman, MSN, RN, NE-BC, and learn how he and his team of clinicians, data scientists, and engineers are working with an interesting array of technology partners to design and embed AI into hospital operations and clinical workflows. This work supports nurses, doctors, and care teams in predicting and better managing clinical situations while keeping people safe, involving patients more deeply in their care, and ushering in a moonshot for healthcare that Robbie characterizes as “Precision Nursing”—delivering the right care to the right person, in the best way, at the ideal moment.

Episode Resources

• American Hospital Association and Microsoft AI Course: https://sponsored.aha.org/Microsoft-AI-Healthcare-2020.html

• Artificial Intelligence and the Path to Health Care Innovation: https://www.aha.org/news/healthcareinnovation-thursday-blog/2020-11-04-artificial-intelligence-and-path-health-care

Seeing the need to keep homeless shelters, their guests and staff safe and coronavirus free, Nurse Disrupted—a pandemic response start-up in Madison, WI—was launched in record time to build fast, simple, virtual health screenings for homeless shelters and communities. On this episode, we meet nurses Bre Loughlin, MS, RN, and Tracy Zvenyach, PhD, APRN-NP, co-founders of Nurse Disrupted, and dig into the details of launching their new venture. We learn how their different, yet complementary backgrounds of technology and policy are a strength of their partnership, and how in solving one problem, they simultaneously solve several more, including helping nursing students fulfill their practicum hours toward graduation and gain digital health tech skills; helping shelter residents improve access to and quality of health care; conserving personal protective equipment; and gathering vital public health data to shape health and social services policy and access government funding.

How did misinformation, hysteria and fear surrounding the first HIV/AIDS outbreak turn into community, compassion and love? The HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s also brought forth homophobia and panic. Already stigmatized by society as having “gay cancer,” HIV and AIDS patients were discriminated against by their own healthcare providers in the spaces that were intended to provide them support and treatment. Outraged with the lack of care being provided to HIV and AIDS patients, San Francisco General Hospital’s Ward 5B nurses Alison Moed, Cliff Morrison and Guy Vandenberg set aside their own fears to rally around and provide humane and dignified care to these patients when their health and well-being depended on it. Their extraordinary actions have transformed and established a new standard of care that is used around the world for those living with HIV and AIDS.

A key component of sound mental health that may help protect against depression and anxiety is resilience, and knowing that you’re connected to a greater purpose—to a story larger than your own—is key to building it. For Native and indigenous peoples, the stories of origin, history, and identity are central in building resilience and experiencing optimal health. In this episode, we meet indigenous nurse researcher John Lowe, RN, PhD, FAAN, and discover how he is addressing the long-standing structural impediments that have kept American Indian, Alaska Native and indigenous youth from connecting to their cultural heritage, native identity, and to a history that he describes as a source of great strength. John established the first Center for Indigenous Nurse Research For Health Equity where he is innovating on ancestral wisdom and tradition—through practices like the Virtual Talking Circle—to enable indigenous youth to move away from harmful behaviors and move toward lives and coping mechanisms that are both positive and strength-based.

Fathers play a unique role in their children’s lives and development, and plenty of research backs up the importance of a father's presence. But when it comes to preparing for parenthood, the focus is heavily skewed to preparing mothers for motherhood. So how are fathers getting the support and training they need to be successful -- especially in this age of pandemic parenting? And how does this all come together with the additional challenge of being a father who isn’t living with their children? It's not easy. In this episode, we learn how nurse scientist and researcher Wrenetha Julion, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, CNL, is innovating to build and bolster the involvement of African American fathers who live apart from their children through the Building Bridges to Fatherhood Program and through an exciting new Father Inclusive Prenatal Care program.

Episode Resources

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEhbCD-AC00

· http://www.chicagoparentprogram.org

The CDC reports that Black mothers die at three to four times the rate of White mothers and that the mortality rate of Black infants is higher than that of any other ethnic group in the U.S. Regardless of income and education level, childbirth for Black women is more dangerous than it is for White women. Even tennis legend Serena Williams had a dangerously close call during her pregnancy. In examining why these disparities are so stark, it is clear that structural and systemic racism, racialized health inequities, and implicit bias not only play a role but also signify areas within our society that desperately need improvement. In this episode, we hear from three healthcare innovators who personally and professionally—as Black women and advisors to the Black Mamas Matter Alliance—work tirelessly to advance policy grounded in human rights and reproductive justice to improve Black maternal health and lives. Tune in to hear Jennie Joseph, LM, CPM, RM, Founder and Executive Director of Commonsense Childbirth and Founder of the National Perinatal Task Force; Joia Crear-Perry, MD, Founder and President of the National Birth Equity Collaborative; and Monica McLemore, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Tenured Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco and member of the Bixby Center of Global Reproductive Health, share their wisdom, outrage, approach, and perspectives on the causes and solutions to Black maternal health disparities in the United States.

Episode Resources

• https://blackmamasmatter.org/
• https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/p0905-racial-ethnic-disparities-pregnancy-deaths.html
• https://19thnews.org/2020/08/democrats-focus-new-legislation-on-the-pandemics-effect-on-maternal-mortality/
• https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2020/04/14/483114/community-based-doulas-midwives/
• https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2019/05/02/469186/eliminating-racial-disparities-maternal-infant-mortality/
• https://www.today.com/video/-this-is-not-a-new-crisis-how-jennie-joseph-is-working-to-change-maternal-mortality-rates-1488326723774
• https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/covid-19-is-no-reason-to-abandon-pregnant-people/

During a public health crisis, such as COVID-19, we are acutely aware of the connections between social justice, public health and innovation—especially in communities with vast disparities, such as those in Alaska where Tim Struna, MPH, RN, practices. To explore how public health nurses are innovating to respond to the unique challenges of the ongoing pandemic, we talk to Tim, Chief of Public Health Nursing in the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. He is focused on increasing access to health services for residents in rural areas, particularly during COVID-19, by innovating and coordinating health practices at a community level.