See You Now Podcast

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous, and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, rethink how healthcare is organized and where it’s delivered.

In this fourth of a multi-episode series centered on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcarereport we take a close up look at how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed disparities in access to care that landed far more heavily on vulnerable communities. This is especially true for the Transgender community which has been uniquely affected by the pandemic in terms of access to gender-affirming care. We spend time with Nurse Practitioner and healthcare activist Dallas Ducar (she/her/hers), the CEO of Transhealth Northampton, and learn how their ground-breaking comprehensive care clinic delivers gender-affirming care to gender-diverse adults, children, and families. In this work, Dallas describes the ripple and compounding effects of discrimination, the impact of legislation on telehealth, the role of community-based participatory action research, and the ways that nurse-led innovation can be the playbook for healthier, experiences, outcomes, workplaces, and affirming care for all of us.

Guests
Dallas Ducar, MSN, APRN

Episode Resources

• Transhealth Northampton
• Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research andHighlights Johnson & Johnson,American Nurses Association (ANA) and theAmerican Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care - STAT
• Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: COVID-19 Care
• With More Freedom, A Nurse-Led Model for Healthcare is Gaining Ground During Pandemic
• Massive Study Confirms Telehealth Effective in Primary Care
• Telehealth Rollbacks Leave Patients Stranded, Some Doctors Say
• The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on LGBT People
• Human Rights Campaign: Transgender Resources
• Tips for Allies of Transgender People
• Toward a Uniform Classification of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Laws
• Why It’s Not A Labor Shortage
• Protecting and Advancing Health Care for Transgender Adult Communities

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous, and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, rethink how healthcare is organized and where it’s delivered.

Moved by the unprecedented stress and strain on nurses and our health systems, Johnson & Johnson, in partnership with the American Nurses Association and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, set out to understand the various ways that the nursing profession evolved amidst the pandemic. From the stories and data emerged the pointed Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report -- one that offers a deeper understanding on how the pandemic transformed nursing practice and how the momentum of these innovations can steer us to a much better and preferred future of the profession.

In this third of a multi-episode series centered on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report, we go for a checkup on retail health clinics with Angela Patterson, the Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer at CVS MinuteClinic to learn how the teams at MinuteClinic worked with a variety of partners to deliver care throughout the pandemic to communities across the US when health systems around the country experienced high levels of disruption. Throughout this public health crisis, the MinuteClinic teams continued and evolved their established care services, and as their patients’ needs changed and the public health crisis escalated, their teams took bold, innovative leaps to ensure the safety and well being of their clinical teams, deliver on the urgent need for convenient COVID testing, and play a transformative role in the enormous logistics challenge of swiftly mobilizing teams to vaccinate millions of people across the nation with the new COVID vaccines.

Guest

• Angela Patterson, DNP, FNP-BC, NEA-BC, FAANP, Vice President, CVS Health and Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer at CVS MinuteClinic

Episode Resources

• Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research and HighlightsJohnson & Johnson, American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care - STAT
• Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: COVID-19 Care
• CVS Minute Clinic
• With More Freedom, A Nurse-Led Model for Healthcare is Gaining Ground During Pandemic
• CVS Health, Microsoft Partner To Bring ‘Digital First’ Care To Customers
• Why Providers Chose MinuteClinic
• ‘Protect and Invest’: WHO Calls For 6m More Nurses Worldwide
• World Health Organization’s State of the World’s Nursing Report - 2020
• America Stopped Treating Healthcare Workers Like Heroes
• Effective Decision-Making During the Pandemic
• Toward a Uniform Classification of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Laws

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous, and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, rethink how healthcare is organized and where it’s delivered.

Moved by the unprecedented stress and strain on nurses and our health systems, Johnson & Johnson, in partnership with the American Nurses Associationand the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, set out to understand the various ways that the nursing profession evolved amidst the pandemic. From the stories and data emerged the pointed Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report -- one that offers a deeper understanding on how the pandemic transformed nursing practice and how the momentum of these innovations can steer us to a much better and preferred future of the profession.

In this second of a multi-episode series centered on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report we go behind the scenes on a “listening adventure” and hear how the pandemic changed people’s access to care, their care needs, and the impact on the well-being of the healthcare workforce, and learn through thought-provoking stories, experiences, and fine details how three nurse changemakers are weaving the needed innovations into their organizations, care delivery, and workforce to Accelerate Nursing and Transform Healthcare.

Guests

• Julie Kennedy-Oehlert, DNP, RN Chief Experience Officer,Vidant Health
• Dallas Ducar, MSN, APRN and CEO TranshealthNorthampton
• Angela Patterson, DNP, FNP-BC, NEA-BC, FAANP, Vice President, CVS Health and Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer at CVS Minute Clinic
• Lynda Benton Senior Director Strategic Initiatives Global Community Impact Johnson & Johnson

Episode Resources

• Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research and HighlightsJohnson & Johnson
• American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care - STAT
• Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: COVID-19 Care
• Vidant Health: Changing Healthcare From the Inside Out
• Creating Workplace Equity to Achieve Health Equity
• Transhealth Northampton
• CVS Minute Clinics

While the recent pandemic caused devastating loss of life and strained health systems, it also brought into sharp focus nurses’ pivotal role in healthcare and their enormous, and largely untapped potential to shape patient care, rethink how healthcare is organized, and where it’s delivered.

Moved by the unprecedented stress and strain on nurses and our health systems, Johnson & Johnson, in partnership with the American Nurses Association and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, set out to understand the various ways that the nursing profession evolved amidst the pandemic. From the stories and data emerged the pointed Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare report -- one that offers a deeper understanding on how the pandemic transformed nursing practice and how the momentum of these innovations can steer us to a much better and preferred future of the profession.

In this first of a multi episode series, we center on the Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Reportand how it coincides with the National Academy of Medicine’s Future of Nursing Reports, and The Future Today Institute’s Tech Trends Report to serve as relevant, actionable playbooks for reducing uncertainty, managing complexity, and building on the momentum of positive change emerging from the COVID pandemic to accelerate nursing and transform healthcare.

Guest(s) Featured in this Episode
• Sue Hassmiller PhD, RN, FAAN Sr Adv Nursing, RWJF; Dir. Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action; Sr Scholar in Residence National Academy of Medicine
• Amy Webb Futurist, Author, Founder & CEO of the Future Today Institute
• Lynda Benton Senior Director Strategic Initiatives Global Community Impact Johnson & Johnson

Affiliations
• Sue Hassmiller The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. National Academy of Medicine
• Amy Webb The Future Today Institute
• Lynda Benton Johnson & Johnson Global Community Impact

Episode Resources
• Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare Research and HighlightsJohnson & Johnson, American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
• The Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity
• The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2010-2020)
• Look to nurses to help accelerate the transformation of health care - STAT
• The Future Today Institute
• 2021 Tech Trends Report
• Amy Webb: Emerging Tech Trends Report/SXSW Live Studio
• Open Source Foresight Frameworks and Tools
• The Future of Healthcare Lies With Nurses
• How Do We Keep The Nursing Shortage From Getting Worse?
• Trust Us. Nurses Are at a Breaking Point

Vaccines and vaccination—they’ve become one of the hottest topics of public discourse. Indeed, the Oxford Languages 2021 Word of the Year is Vax. As their pun-filled news release notes, "more than any other word, 'vax' has injected itself into the bloodstream of the English language in 2021.” With regulatory approval of a COVID vaccine for kids ages 5-11, COVID boosters for adults 65 and older and those at a higher risk for COVID, and the World Health Organization recommending widespread use of a long-awaited malaria vaccine for children, there is much vaccine progress and science to celebrate and understand.

In this episode, we check in with Melody Butler, BSN, RN, CIC, the Founder and Executive Director ofNurses Who Vaccinate, to get an update on how she and nurses around the world are responding, mobilizing, and innovating our vaccination efforts, messaging, and communication strategies. This conversation is particularly relevant at a time when an explosion of misinformation is fueling vaccine hesitancy and children and adults around the world need to catch up on all their life-saving vaccinations.

Guest(s) Featured in this Episode
• Melody Butler, BSN, RN, CIC

Episode Resources
• Vaccines.gov
• Nurses Who Vaccinate
• CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
•Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present
• Medical groups call for mandatory vaccination of U.S. health care workers
• Joint Statement in Support of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for All Workers in Health and Long-Term Care
• Past Pandemics Remind Us, COVID Will Be an Era, Not a Crisis That Fades
• Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows
• The Disinformation Dozen
• The Right (and wrong) Way To Talk To People About Getting Vaccinated
• Nurse Leader Shares Five Lessons on Breaking Down Barriers to Vaccination
• Vaccine Conversations Go Door-to-Door, One Neighbor At a Time
• Nurse Practitioner Tarik Khan Races to Deliver Vaccines to The Homebound
• Medical groups call for mandatory vaccination of U.S. health care workers
• Joint Statement in Support of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for All Workers in Health and Long-Term Care
• Vaccine Confidence Project
• The COVID Project
• KFF Covid-19 Vaccine Monitor
• World Health Organization Immunization Dashboard
• COVID Vaccine Facts For Nurses
• ANA Position Statement on Immunizations

Hackathons provide a fast-paced, high energy, community-building opportunity for a wide spectrum of participants to flex their innovation muscles and solve for some of today’s greatest challenges. While these events have traditionally been geared towards computer scientists and software developers, in recent years nurses, clinicians, and health innovators have started to convene health-challenge inspired events. Today the health hackathon landscape is exciting, rapidly evolving, and nurses are playing a lead role in driving them. In this episode, we learn from health influencers, hackers, and innovators Jane Sarashon-Kahn, MA, MHSA; Chris Recinos, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, NEA-BC; Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, BSN ‘21; and Jennifferre Mancillas, BSN, RN, RNC-NIC about how hackathons have impacted their thinking, skills, lives, career trajectory, as well as the landscape of innovative health solutions and products. And -- why you should register your interest at NurseHack4Health.org.

Guests Featured in this Episode

• Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, MA, MHSA
• Chris Recinos, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, NEA-BC
• Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, BSN ‘21
• Jennifferre Mancillas, BSN, RN
• Marion Leary, RN, MSN, MPH, FAHA
• Rebecca Love RN, MSN, FIEL

Episode Resources

• Register to Nurse Hack 4 Health
• Nurse Innovation Hackathon Skills and Resources
• Nurse Innovation 101 Hub
• The 'Great Resignation' Is Finally Getting Companies to Take Burnout Seriously. Is It Enough?
• Health workers know what good care is. Pandemic burnout is getting in the way
• The Lumify Care Story: The Impact of a Nurse Hackathon (video)
• Y Combinator startup Lumify Care, cofounded by a Penn grad, is the accelerator’s first nurse-led team
• HealthPopuli -- A blog covering the health/care ecosystem and people by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
• HealthConsuming -- From Health Consumer to Health Citizen by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

People newly diagnosed and living with chronic conditions increasingly turn to technology, the internet and social media seeking information and education, to share clinical information and the latest research, to receive and provide support, and to share solutions and resources. In the spirit of “meeting people where they are,” clinicians are following and joining patients in these social spaces, learning a lot -- and together -- are improving health.

In this episode we hear how Nurse Practitioner Michelle Litchman, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP, FADCES, FAAN practices and innovates at the intersection of diabetes, digital health, and disparities. Searching digital spaces, online resources and communities she discovers the specific needs and pain points that patients and families are experiencing. Her work to better assess and address the many dimensions of access and accessibility led to an awareness and understanding of why people with diabetes are foregoing basic needs and taking part in "life exchanges'' of trading of insulin and medical supplies just to stay healthy, and to the subsequent passage of legislation offering an important lifeline to those who depend on insulin to survive. In her research and innovation, she shares the value of collaborating with citizen scientists so the patients’ story and experience are reflected in the research, policies, and solutions.

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Guest
Michelle Litchman, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP, FADCES, FAAN

Episode Resources

• The Fakebetes Challenge
• Social Media and Diabetes: Can Facebook and Skype Improve Glucose Control in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes on Pump Therapy? One-Year Experience
• Why Diabetes Patients Are Getting Insulin From Facebook
• “Everyone Included” Social Media Research Challenge
• Diabetes Program Accessibility for People Who Are Deaf
• U of U Health Expert Aids Passage of Diabetes Legislation
• Why #WeAreNotWaiting—Motivations and Self-Reported Outcomes Among Users of Open-source Automated Insulin Delivery Systems: Multinational Survey

Our lives can become governed by routines. So much so that little changes—like a detour on the way to work, or an unexpected phone call—can have unimaginable consequences. Maria Striemer, RN, BA, was in the emergency department when she treated a child accidentally left in a car from heat exhaustion. Unable to leave the experience behind, Maria began a journey that was anything but routine. She and her engineer husband worked to develop BackseetBuddy, a sensor that uses a Bluetooth connected app to detect when a phone has moved more than 50 meters from a car seat and sends a phone alert. Along the way, she contended with negative feedback, setbacks, and a global pandemic that put Backseet Buddy on-hold. This inspired an awareness campaign, and an entirely new product that protects the ears of frontline workers forced to wear masks for extended periods of time. In this Moment of Awareness, Maria’s experience developing the Backseet Buddy is emblematic of her nursing career: using collaboration to build, often from the bottom up, novel ways to keep people safe.

Guest(s) Featured in this Episode
• Maria Striemer, RN, BA

Episode Resources
• Keeping Kids Safe. Facts from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• KidsAndCars.org: An advocacy center that conducts research on car-related dangers surrounding children
• Backseet Buddy
• Nurse Invents Phone App to Support Child Car Safety
• Save The Ears Campaign

Necessity is often cited as the Mother of Invention. And, nurses who have been part of the inventing process share that exasperation, empathy, and determination are members of the same family. While caring for a patient in an interventional radiology lab and witnessing the exasperation on a patient’s face while struggling to secure a fluid-filled leg bag, nurse and inventor Brian Mohika, RN, BSN, was inspired to create smart, active-living underwear designed to secure catheters and fluid collection bags. He knew people needed solutions that were practical, comfortable, washable, discreet, and liberating. Brian stated, “it is about more than just selling a medical product. It’s about improving lives and returning people to actively living theirs.”

In this Moment of Awareness, Brian shares his invention story and the motivation and audacity required to bring the vision.

Guest(s) Featured in this Episode

• Brian Mohika, RN, BSN

Episode Resources

• CathWear
• From Inventor to Entrepreneur: Inspiring Lessons from Nurse Brian Mohika
• Let it Flow: One Nurse's Entrepreneurial Journey by Brian Mohika, BSN, RN, CEO

Voting and Health. It's not a pairing that readily springs to mind, but the COVID pandemic, for many reasons, placed a magnifying glass on this important duo and how they impact and amplify one another and dramatically shape community health. A growing body of research confirms that the root and distribution of many diseases start with a lack of equitable, prevention-oriented policies. On a daily basis, in every healthcare setting, health teams see the unhappy faces and stressful circumstances of failing health policies and the direct connection between voter access and the critical path to improving our health policies, reducing health inequities, and building healthier and representative democracies. In this episode, as part of the growing Civic Health movement and its nationwide effort to expand and normalize healthcare settings as community touchpoints for voter access and engagement, we’re taking a closer listen to the experiences and insights of three civic health innovators who provide compelling evidence and data for why healthcare settings and healthcare professionals are particularly effective messengers and catalysts for voter engagement. Together, they have
collectively created and built NursesWhoVote, Democracy at Discharge, Vot-ER, and the Healthy Democracy Kit.

Guest(s) Featured in this Episode

• Elizabeth Cohn RN, NP, PhD
• Alistair Martin MD, MPP
• Aliya Bhatia, MPP

Episode Resources

• Vot-ER and the Healthy Democracy Kit
• Nurses Who Vote
• Civic Health Month
• 2021 Civic Health Conference Presentations
• Voting, health and interventions in healthcare settings: a scoping review
• We Can Boost Low Vaccination Rates The Same Way We Raise Voter Turnout
• National Voter Registration Act

As we wrap up Season 5 and roll into our summer break, we’re catching our breath from a busy few months exploring, celebrating, and innovating that included elevating National Nurses Month, issuing a call to action for nurses around the world to join the NurseHack4Health, getting an update on the global Nursing Now Campaign as it transitions to the Nursing Now Challenge, introducing a special series Meeting of Minds, and having three SEE YOU NOW episodes selected as finalists in the ShareCare Awards that recognize best-in-class productions promoting well-being and capturing the spirit of "sharing care." Season 5 also included remarkable storytelling of how nurses are innovating on truly gargantuan health challenges like our staggering mental health crisis, Black maternal health in the US, the care needs of older adults around the planet, AND the health of our planet. With the summer sun stretching our days longer, it’s a perfect opportunity for reflecting on what we’ve heard, learned, and experienced so we’ve created a summer listen-listto fill your ears and imagination with great ideas, innovations, and inspiration to enjoy and share. Throughout the summer we have some hot features coming your way so stay tuned! Our next season launches in October and while the team is busy in the production studio, we encourage you to enjoy our library of episodes, take a moment to rate and review the podcast, and share it with others. Good health is a team sport and the more fans we have, the healthier we’ll all be. Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com. Visit our website atwww.seeyounowpodcast.com.

Episode Resources

• Summer 2021 Listen-List to fill your ears and imagination with incredible stories of nurse-led innovation
• SEE YOU NOW episodes selected as finalists in ShareCare Awards
• Nursing Now Challenge Championing Development Opportunities for nurses and midwives around the world

In this special edition of SEE YOU NOW, we’re honoring our very first national Juneteenth holiday. As a podcast focused on how nurse-led innovation is strengthening our healthcare systems and transforming lives, we’re marking this historic moment with a health equity playlist to amplify and elevate the scholarship, innovation, leadership, and contributions of Black nurses toward building healthier communities, families, and experiences. While meaningful progress has been made in reducing health disparities, there remains so much more to do in our race toward health equity. We invite and urge you to listen, learn from, follow, engage, elevate, and cite Black nurses and their courageous and groundbreaking work and contributions to moving health equity forward. In this episode, you’ll hear a sampling of nurses who are innovating on the front lines of health equity. Click here to enjoy our full Juneteenth playlist.

Episode Resources

• What is Juneteenth? An interview with Scholar and Historian Lori Brooks
• President Biden Signs Juneteenth Bill Creating a New Federal Holiday
• On Juneteenth. An interview with historian and award-winning author Annette Gordon Reed

Honoring Juneteenth with SEE YOU NOW
A playlist featuring and elevating nurses who are driving health equity forward

• 44. Way More Than a Health Plan
• 40. Counting on Faith
• 32. Bridges To Fatherhood
• 39. Real World Data. Real Life Results
• 47. A Vote For Mom’s Health
• 31. Black Midwives & Mamas Matter
• 38. Mentoring for a More Equitable Future

Issac Asimov believed robots could have a true humanizing influence, and one day do the work to make life easier, freeing us to do the work that makes life worthwhile. For many nurses, caring for patients is that worthwhile work. However, studies have shown that roughly 30 percent of a nursing shift is devoted to patient care, with the rest given over to other tasks like finding medications, tracking down equipment, tracking down supplies, and documentation. So the question is, how can we give time back to nurses, so they can put patients—and themselves—first? It’s an urgent question, as the demands and pressures for health care efficiency continue to rise, while experienced nurses retire, nursing schools struggle to expand capacity, and the COVID pandemic stretches staffing to extreme limits. Enter Moxi, a robot—and patient selfie favorite—designed to help nurses complete routine, non-patient facing tasks. In this episode of Meeting of Minds, David Marshall, JD, DNP, RN, FAAN, senior vice president and chief nursing executive at Cedars Sinai and renowned social robotics expert, and Andrea Thomaz, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Diligent Robotics, sit down to discuss how nurses can lead interdisciplinary collaboration, the important role chief nursing officers can play in encouraging staff innovation, and the need for nurses to practice at the top of their license. At the center of their discussion is Moxi, a piece of technology designed to assist but never replace the priceless value and human interaction that nurses bring to patient care. Together, David, Andrea, and Moxi are proving that Nurse Robot Assistants can help reduce nurse fatigue and give nurses time back to care for patients, practice self-care, and focus on the big picture. Because no matter how advanced they become, robots don't take care of people. People take care of people.

Guest(s) Featured in this Episode

• David Marshall, JD, DNP, RN, FAAN
• Andrea Thomaz, PhD

Episode Resources

• David Marshall Bio
• Andrea Thomaz Bio
• Moxi
• Robotics and the Impact on Nursing Practice

The health of our planet is in serious condition. Climate change is anticipated to result in increasingly warmer global temperatures, more extreme weather events, and rising sea levels. Without accelerated intervention and broad scale innovation across all economic sectors, we face devastating effects on global water and food supplies, critical infrastructure and supply chains, physical and mental health, and a less certain future. Understanding the impacts of climate change on human health is vitally important for the global population. You can’t have healthy people without a healthy environment: something that health professionals today increasingly understand. Just as nurses are skilled at turning around a health crisis that humans can experience -- they’re also well trained and ideally positioned for addressing the critical condition of our planet. In this episode we meet Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director of Planetary Health for the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota to learn how nurses can and are reducing greenhouse emissions, find out why educating girls is key to a healthier planet, and discover who the best intergenerational storytellers are for helping us understand our relationship to and stewardship of the planet and where to innovate to improve its health. Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com. For additional resources, visit our website at www.seeyounowpodcast.com.

University of Minnesota, School of Nursing Planetary Health

Guest(s) Featured in this Episode

• Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN

Episode Resources

• Earth Day
• Planetary Health Alliance
• Project Drawdown
• Alliance of Nurses For Health Environments
• Nurses Drawdown
• Want to Fight Climate Change? Educate A Girl

A common stereotype of aging is an era of decline and shrinking horizons. The reality is far more nuanced. The process of aging isn’t uniform and many will find their health and functional trajectories widening as they get older. In fact some, like President Joe Biden or pioneering nurse-midwife Ruth Lubic, won’t make their greatest contributions until their later years. A key to healthy aging is maintaining or improving your health, which for our oldest adults, largely falls outside of healthcare facilities. For many, health allows us to feel safe wherever we are. Led by Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN, the CAPABLE (Community Aging in Place—Advancing Better Living for Elders) program aims to improve both the function and cost of elderly care, by teaming a nurse, an occupational therapist and a handy worker to address the home environment, while encouraging the strengths of the older adults themselves to improve safety, independence, and ensuring dignity based on the client’s goals. By installing small, cost effective yet thoughtful adaptations to the home environment, older adults can ease the navigation of activities of daily living—things like bathing, dressing, standing to cook, moving up and down stairs—that sustain and promote their physical, mental, and emotional energy—leading to richer lives full of creativity and meaningful contribution.

Guests Featured in this Episode
Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN

Episode Resources
• Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN
• CAPABLE
• Older Americans Month 2021
• CAPABLE Video: Aging vignette featuring Sarah Szanton / We Got This
• CAPABLE Video: Sarah Szanton - Heinz Award
• Many Older Adults Lack Even Simple, Helpful Equipment
• Effect of a Biobehavioral Environmental Approach on Disability Among Low-Income Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial

How do you build, staff, and stand up an online psychiatry and therapy office over the course of 45 days? And in a pandemic, no less? For Lavender founders and seasoned entrepreneurs Pritma Dhillon Chattha, DNP MHA RN and Brighid Gannon, DNP, PMHNP-BC it was experiencing first-hand how the pandemic was moving every aspect of our lives online at lightning speed; hearing from colleagues seeking mental health support the countless difficulties they encountered navigating and accessing services; and having the business skills and entrepreneurial experience to seize the moment to design and deliver much needed innovation in the psychiatric care. Pritma and Brighid are making mental healthcare more affordable and accessible by bringing business operation tools that may not be innovative in other industries into mental health services. And while the headline of this story is innovating in mental health services delivery, an equally remarkable headline is how their workforce and workplace innovation is reducing the stigma of seeking care through private on-line therapy, and increasing the availability of mental health professionals while offering providers the work flexibility they need to do so.

Guests Featured in this Episode
Pritma Dhillon Chattha, DNP MHA RN
Brighid Gannon, DNP, PMHNP-BC

Episode Resources
• Mental Health, Substance Use, and Suicidal Ideation During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, June 24–30, 2020
• Health plan adds more than 400 mental health clinicians to network to help meet demand
• Lavender

Think about what you might have learned had you been in the room with some of the most fruitful partnerships of our time: Jobs and Wozniak; Warhol and Basquiat; Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. That’s what our Meeting of Minds series is meant to do: to take you behind the scenes to listen in on conversations between chief nurse officers and leaders from disciplines inside and outside of healthcare who are driving innovation. This week, we bring together in conversation two incredible leaders and innovators: Kathy Driscoll, MSN, RN, CCM, Chief Nursing Officer at Humana Inc., and Kathryn Tart, EdD, MSN, RN, founding dean of the University of Houston's College of Nursing. Both have formed a unique collaboration through Humana’s Integrated Health System Sciences Institute at the University of Houston to train current and future healthcare leaders with a focus on providing holistic and collaborative care to improve health outcomes. The Institute’s unique and diverse programs aim to solve complex issues related to social determinants of health: social isolation, food insecurity, homelessness, and access to transportation for the Houston community. And it’s a win-win. Kathy and Kathryn’s efforts are strengthening the skills of nurses and of nursing students, as well as those beyond the medical field.

Guests Featured in this Episode

• Kathy Driscoll, MSN, RN, CCM
• Kathryn Tart, EdD, MSN, RN

Affiliations

• Humana Inc.
• University of Houston School of Nursing

Episode Resources

• The Humana Integrated Health System Sciences Institute at the University of Houston
• Papa: Addressing loneliness through companionship
• Kathryn Tart Biography
• Kathy Driscoll Biography
• The Voice of Humana Nurses Podcast

May 12 is International Nurses Day, chosen to commemorate the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, the British nurse, social reformer and statistician best known as the founder of modern nursing. To mark the moment, we’re returning to an earlier episode, a pre-pandemic episode, and listening with an altered, heightened understanding and urgency of the need to raise awareness on the impact nurses have in transforming health systems, and the critical need for nurse leadership and innovation. The past year has certainly raised visibility of nurses and highlighted their essential role in improving global health. In this episode, Barbara Stilwell, PhD, RN, FRCN, a nurse, researcher, policy expert, and Executive Director of the Nursing Now global campaign, seeks to elevate the nursing profession, sharing the power of nurses connecting and uniting to tackle big problems like gender and economic inequality while improving health outcomes — the episode is as relevant today as when it first aired. Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com. For additional resources, visit our website at www.seeyounowpodcast.com.

Guests Featured in this Episode

• Barbara Stilwell

Episode Resources

• WHO State of the World’s Nursing Report - 2020
• Nursing Now - 2020: The Year of the Nurse and the Midwife
• Nursing Now - Nightingale Challenge 2020
• Nursing Now - Vision
• Triple Impact: A Report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health
• Investing in Nurse Leadership Report
• WHO Year of the Health and Care Workers 2021

This Mother’s Day, as we celebrate and honor the moms/mums/aunts/aunties/grandmothers and maternal figures in our lives, we must also acknowledge the ongoing maternal health crisis in the United States. It is a crisis that Representative and Nurse Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14) understands well, especially its severe impact on Black mothers. Marrying her nursing background with a genuine enthusiasm for the power of policy to improve and save lives, she co-founded the Black Maternal Health Caucus and introduced The Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021. A comprehensive legislative solution, the Momnibus covers everything from the intersection between the COVID-19 pandemic, being a pregnant person of color, to the impact of extreme heat and air pollution on maternal and infant health outcomes. This legislation will drive innovation in practice—a bill that will scale transformative care by matching policy with science and data. It is also a reminder that there are solutions to longstanding inequities and problems, if we are bold enough to enact them. Email us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com. For addition resources, visit our website at www.seeyounowpodcast.com.

Guests Featured in this Episode

• Representative Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14)

Episode Resources

• White House Declares Black Maternal Health Week
• Black Maternal Health Caucus Momnibus Bill
• US Black Mothers Die In Childbirth At Three Times The Rate Of White Mothers
• ProPublica Lost Mothers Project
• A Clarion Warning About Pregnancy Outcomes and the Climate Crisis
• National Birth Equity Collaborative
• World Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day

Hackathons provide a fast-paced, high energy, community-building opportunity for a wide spectrum of participants to flex their innovation muscles and solve for some of today’s greatest challenges. While these events have traditionally been geared towards computer scientists and software developers in recent years nurses, clinicians, and health innovators have started to convene health-challenge inspired events. Today the health hackathon landscape is exciting, rapidly evolving, and nurses are playing a lead role in driving them. In this episode, we learn from health influencers, hackers, and innovators Jane Sarashon-Kahn, MA, MHSA; Chris Recinos, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, NEA-BC; Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, BSN ‘21, and Jennifferre Mancillas, BSN, RN, RNC-NIC about how hackathons have impacted their thinking, skills, lives, career trajectory, as well as the landscape of innovative health solutions and products. And -- why you should register your interest at NurseHack4Health.org.

Guests Featured in this Episode

• Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, MA, MHSA
• Chris Recinos, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, NEA-BC
• Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, BSN ‘21
• Jennifferre Mancillas, BSN, RN
• Marion Leary, RN, MSN, MPH, FAHA
• Rebecca Love RN, MSN, FIEL

Episode Resources

• Nurse Hack 4 Health
• Nurse Innovation Hackathon Skills and Resources
• Nurse Innovation 101 Hub
• The Lumify Care Story: The Impact of a Nurse Hackathon (video)
• #NurseHack4Health : Pandemic Management Improving Education & Communication (video)
• HealthPopuli -- A blog covering the health/care ecosystem and people by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
• Lumify Care
• HealthConsuming -- From Health Consumer to Health Citizen by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
• Hackathons