Gender equality. Economic development. Greater health outcomes. According to nurse, researcher and policy expert Barbara Stilwell, PhD, RN, FRCN and Executive Director of Nursing Now, a global campaign seeking to elevate the nursing profession, more nurses in leadership and policy roles can result in all those things and more. In this episode, Stilwell speaks with Shawna Butler about the need to raise awareness of the impact nurses have in transforming health systems, the groundbreaking work they have accomplished in devising solutions to patient care and health outcomes and the exciting potential of nurse leadership and innovation.

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Featured in this episode –

Barbara Stilwell, PhD, RN, FRCN and Executive Director of Nursing Now

Additional Resources and Background Information –

Journal of Clinical Nursing – “Breaking the Silence: A new story for Nursing,” https://bit.ly/39dfxVg

The New York Times - “Workforce Shortage Threatening our Care,”
https://nyti.ms/2tHS8vY

The New Yorker – “Women and Power,”
https://bit.ly/2S9LeZM

World Health Organization, International Year of the Nurse and Midwife designation and campaign,
https://bit.ly/2tEnd3A

Nursing Now
https://www.nursingnow.org/2020-the-year-of-the-nurse-and-the-midwife/
https://www.nursingnow.org/nightingale/
https://www.nursingnow.org/vision/
https://www.who.int/hrh/com-heeg/digital-APPG_triple-impact.pdf

Investing in Nurse Leadership Report, https://bit.ly/2SvI4P5