SEE YOU NOW Insights
Each week with our SEE YOU NOW Insights, we’re bringing you short, powerful moments from our archive of conversations with nurses and nurse allies. People who are reimagining and reshaping healthcare every day. These bite-sized episodes feature sparks of innovation, bold ideas, breakthrough discoveries, and reflections that stay with us.
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Insight 20: A nurse-led charter for a healthier world
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. -
Insight 19: How nurses support youth in foster care
In this Insight from Episode 105: Fostering Kids Fostering Families, nurse and former foster youth Sharrica Miller, PhD, RN, illustrates how lived experience enriches nursing practice. Drawing on her journey through the foster system, she’s creating programs that meet the physical, emotional, and practical needs of foster youth while empowering them to advocate for themselves. -
Insight 18: How small home changes transform aging
In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, nurse, researcher, and philosopher Sarah L. Szanton 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. -
Insight 17: Excellence begins with safety: Don Berwick on caring for the caregivers
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. -
Insight 16: The birth of empowerment
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. -
Insight 15: Oral health saves lives
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. -
Insight 14: Everyone welcome — The lasting change of innovation
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. -
Insight 13: Making space to empower recovery
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. -
Insight 12: Nurse hackathons a key to innovation
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. -
Insight 11: Why nurses belong in elected offices
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.