SEE YOU NOW Insights

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.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight from episode 65, Sending Out an S.O.S., national nursing workforce expert and healthcare safety researcher Christopher Friese sounds the alarm: without listening directly to healthcare workers, even well-meaning policies may fall short of making a difference.

In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, nurse Jonathan Bartels shares how he created The Pause, a 30-second ritual that offers space for reflection, connection, and care. By taking a moment together to honor a life lost, care teams can grieve, process, and begin to heal, so they can continue showing up for their patients and for each other.

Creating art isn’t just a pastime, it’s a powerful path to healing. During the pandemic, nurses from across Northwell Health formed a choir, and in singing together, found connection, mentorship, and renewal. In harmony, they discovered strength, joy, and a deeper way to care, for each other and their patients.

In the SEE YOU Now Insights, nurse Julie Kennedy Oehlert speaks to how transforming healthcare systems requires redefining culture through empathy, love, and relationship-building, not mandates or fear.

As AI becomes more embedded in healthcare, nurses must shape its development to ensure patient safety, trust, and clinical relevance.