Nurse voices of Magnet

Heather Bartlett is a nurse educator and supervisor in the Emergency Department at MyMichigan Medical Center Midland in Midland, Michigan. Listen to Heather as she reflects on what it means to truly see your patients: to hear what they’re saying, to notice what they aren’t, and to stand with them in the hard spaces as their bridge, their advocate, and their ally.

Nurses are catalysts, and Rachell Dumas turned one of the most frightening moments of her life into a platform that is changing how patients advocate for themselves. As a neuro ICU nurse who was dismissed in the ED during a neurological emergency, she built HEARD to give patients the language and tools to be heard when it matters most.

You can’t be what you can’t see, and Anny Jenkins has built her entire career around changing that. From rural West Virginia to the halls of Washington D.C., she shares how finding her community transformed her from a nurse on the verge of walking away into one of the most vocal advocates for the next generation.

Nurses are problem solvers, and Marguerite Rowell built a mobile app to prove it. After nearly 25 years rising through the ranks at Baptist Health South Florida, she identified a gap no binder could fix and created NurseMath, putting complex financial tools directly in the hands of nurse leaders.

Nurses are natural innovators — and few embody that better than Robyn Barriffe, who has gone from reluctant recruit to CNO and Johnson & Johnson Nurse Innovation Fellow. Here, she shares why human-centered design may be the missing framework in modern nursing innovation.

What does it take to transform a struggling nursing team into one of the most recognized units in the country, and then dedicate your career to making sure every nurse leader has the support to do the same? Ama Mathewos — nurse, certified executive coach, and founder of Evolve Lead Succeed — knows the answer firsthand.

What if the most powerful thing a nurse could do was teach another nurse to think? That question has driven Jester Lloyd Bautista from the classrooms of the Philippines to the hallways of Cedars-Sinai, where he now leads a program designed to walk new graduates into their first RN role and build the bridge he wished had existed when he started out.

A former Division I sprinter turned ER nurse, Jaden Dennis knows that winning was never a solo effort. Here, Jaden draws a direct line between the trust built in relay handoffs and the trust that holds a high-stakes medical team together when it matters most.