SEE YOU NOW Podcast

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, International Council of Nurses CEO Howard Catton, and ANA VP of Innovation Oriana Beaudet explore how the ICN Charter for Change, a straightforward, evidence-driven ten-point plan, was built directly from what nurses, associations, and communities say they need most.

Hear how global nursing leaders are addressing workforce shortages, policy barriers, and chronic underinvestment in the profession. In this episode, the American Nurses Association’s Oriana Beaudet and ICN CEO Howard Catton discuss why investing in nurses is crucial for global health, economic stability, and resilient healthcare systems.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, from Episode 50: Owning Your Aging, nurse, researcher, and philosopher Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN shares the story of CAPABLE, Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders, a nurse-led program that helps older adults maintain independence and dignity by pairing home visits from a nurse and occupational therapist with simple, low-cost home modifications.

Implementing a national patient safety plan sounds straightforward on paper. In practice, it requires something far more challenging: shifting an entire organization's culture.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, from Episode 50: Owning Your Aging, nurse, researcher, and philosopher Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN shares the story of CAPABLE, Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders, a nurse-led program that helps older adults maintain independence and dignity by pairing home visits from a nurse and occupational therapist with simple, low-cost home modifications.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, Don Berwick, MD, pioneer of the modern patient safety movement, explores the powerful relationship between quality and safety in healthcare. Drawing from his landmark work on waste and inefficiency with the RAND Corporation and lessons from Paul O’Neill’s safety transformation at Alcoa, Berwick reveals how excellence begins when the workforce feels safe, supported, and valued.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, nurse-midwife Ruth Watson Lubic, who opened the nation’s first freestanding birth center in 1975, reflects on the movement that grew from one center in New York City to more than 350 across the country, and the transformational power of centering families in childbirth.

In this SYN Insight, nurse, educator, and historian Dian Baker, PhD, APRN-BC, PNP, PHN, shares how empowering patients, families, and nurses with knowledge and resources can dramatically reduce pneumonia rates, save lives, and cut costs. By bridging the long-standing divide between oral health and overall health, Baker shows how small, consistent actions can spark big change in complex healthcare systems.

In this episode of our AI in Play series, we meet Ryannon Frederick, MS, RN, System Chief Nursing Officer at Mayo Clinic, who has restructured nursing leadership teams to ensure nurses identify the problems, co-develop the solutions, and remain partners from design through implementation and testing.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, nurse leaders share how the Ether Dome Challenge at Massachusetts General Hospital is using open innovation to surface frontline solutions and strengthen care delivery.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, Nursing Research & Innovation Coordinator Rose Hedges and MakerHealth co-founder and CEO Anna Young share how a chance encounter with the maker movement led to the creation of a hospital makerspace where nurses and patients design solutions together.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight from Episode 46: What The Hack? health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn and nurse innovator Rebecca Love describe why it’s so important to bring nurses into the hackathon mix to help solve some of the most pressing problems in healthcare.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight from Episode 95: Nursing Is Political, Kimberly Gordon, DNP, CRNA, co-founder of Healing Politics, makes a powerful case for why more nurses should run for public office.

Two years after introducing listeners to Healing Politics, with Episode 95: Nursing is Political, Kimberly Gordon returns along co-founder Lisa Summers, with sobering research and renewed urgency about nurses' political participation.

Nurses are leading proven, community-centered solutions that improve health nationwide, yet their impact often goes unseen. In SEE YOU NOW Insight, Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, MPH, LCSW, RN, shares how the Institute for Policy Solutions at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is elevating these innovations and creating policy pathways to scale them nationally.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, public health nurse Jeanne Ayers RN, MPH explains how the Health and Democracy Index reveals a striking truth: when voting is more accessible, population health improves.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, nurse leader Elizabeth Cohn, emergency physician Alister Martin, and health policy strategist Aliya Bhatia make the case that civic engagement, especially voting, is a public health intervention.

In episode 124 of SEE YOU NOW, we explore how nurse practitioner Barbara Chapman is tackling rural health care challenges in Texas using mobile clinics and innovative care models to expand access to quality, timely, whole-person care for underserved communities.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight from Episode 96, Nurse Executive Consultant and former UC Health CNE Kathy Howell, MBA, BSN, RN, NEA-BC, takes us beyond the headlines of nursing shortages and toward the deeper causes of workforce distress: unsafe workplaces, moral injury, and a fractured social contract with the nursing profession.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight from episode 65, Sending Out an S.O.S., national nursing workforce expert and healthcare safety researcher Christopher Friese sounds the alarm: without listening directly to healthcare workers, even well-meaning policies may fall short of making a difference.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, nurse Jonathan Bartels shares how he created The Pause, a 30-second ritual that offers space for reflection, connection, and care. By taking a moment together to honor a life lost, care teams can grieve, process, and begin to heal, so they can continue showing up for their patients and for each other.

Creating art isn’t just a pastime, it’s a powerful path to healing. During the pandemic, nurses from across Northwell Health formed a choir, and in singing together, found connection, mentorship, and renewal. In harmony, they discovered strength, joy, and a deeper way to care, for each other and their patients.

This new episode of SEE YOU NOW explores the national safety movement through the eyes of two leaders: nurse Patricia McGaffigan and Dr. Don Berwick, founding CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Together, they make the case for bold leadership, accountability at every level, and why nurses are essential architects of safer healthcare systems.

In the SEE YOU Now Insights, nurse Julie Kennedy Oehlert speaks to how transforming healthcare systems requires redefining culture through empathy, love, and relationship-building, not mandates or fear.

As AI becomes more embedded in healthcare, nurses must shape its development to ensure patient safety, trust, and clinical relevance.

From her work on suicide prevention Judy Davidson shares actionable advice and resources to support nurses’ mental health.

In this episode, part of our AI in Play series, emergency care nurse, health innovator, and entrepreneur Kwamane Liddell, JD, MHA, BSN, shares how AI is helping remove the paperwork roadblocks such as internet access, low literacy, and stigma standing between families and resources, and between care providers and the people they care for.

In this episode, part of our of our "AI in Play" series, hear how Generative AI powers advanced conversational agents that transform healthcare by offering multilingual support, addressing workforce shortages, and connecting patients to care in innovative ways.

AI-based technologies are helping solve complex problems in nearly every discipline, industry, and human endeavor. And in healthcare, artificial intelligence is a game-changer. But the application of AI also comes with a lot of questions, possibilities and well-founded concerns. In this first episode – of many to come exploring AI’s role in transforming healthcare – we’re starting by looking at the basics of AI and how these fits into the big picture.