Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare

Johnson & Johnson, American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) partnered to conduct quantitative and qualitative research to evaluate the impacts of the pandemic on the nursing profession. Get the research findings here.

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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.

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Guests
Julie Kennedy Oehlert, DNP, RN

Episode Resources

• Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research
• 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