SEE YOU NOW Podcast

SEE YOU NOW Insight 13: Making Space to Empower Recovery

September 11, 2025

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In healthcare, innovation often begins with scientists, problem-solvers, and designers, AKA nurses, who see challenges and envision solutions. In this SEE YOU NOW Insight from Episode 78: Making Spaces (Part I), 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. These projects go beyond fixing problems. They restore independence, dignity, and joy, and show the transformative power of creativity when patients and nurses innovate side-by-side.

There is this culture that kind of started to shift from that's the way that we do it. And I know we're going to go through this process to fix it to, Hey, I think we could just fix this. Let's talk about it and find a solution right now.
Rose Hedges, Nursing Research & Innovation Coordinator, DNP, RN

To listen to this Insight clip’s full episode visit SEE YOU NOW Podcast Episode 78: Making Spaces (Part I) at Apple, Spotify, or YouTube or at your favorite streaming platform.

Applications are open! Participation is free and open globally to nurse-led teams from health systems, nursing organizations, and U.S.-based nurse-founded startups. Teams must be from the same institution.


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