SEE YOU NOW Insights

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, educating, 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 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.

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 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.