SEE YOU NOW
SEE YOU NOW is a health podcast produced in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson and the American Nurses Association. Each episode features conversations with nurses working across a wide range of settings, from labor and delivery and infectious disease to hospice and palliative care. It also highlights nurse allies in politics, business, and technology who are changing the status quo in healthcare. Listeners hear from nurses developing new devices, processes and protocols in areas such as infection prevention, infant health, and maternal mortality. The show aims to give visibility to the real people driving innovation at the front lines of care.
Episodes
Episode 136: Expanding Access to Primary Care: Nurse Practitioners
Primary care is getting harder to access. More than 100 million Americans lack a usual source of primary care because of provider shortages where they live. And the problem isn't confined to rural areas. Massachusetts has more physicians per person than any other state, yet in a 2025 survey of 15 large metro areas, new patients in Boston waited longer for an appointment than in any other city su
Episode 135: AI in Play | Aging's Leading Edge
By 2030, one in five Americans will be 65 or older, and by 2034, older adults will outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history. About three in four adults over 50 want to age in their communities, in their homes, with their family and friends. That shift brings real challenges. How do you keep older adults safe at home when they face cognitive decline or balance problems? How do you b
Insight 30: A Nurse's Case for Decarbonizing Healthcare
Healthcare's carbon footprint is buried in supply chains that no single hospital can fix alone. In this Insight from Episode 104: Practicing Green Health, Jessica Wolff, a women's health nurse practitioner and leader in healthcare sustainability, argues that the sector's healing mission is exactly why it cannot treat decarbonization as separate from health equity and access, and explains what to
Insight 29: Greener Health Systems: Where to Start
Providence was the first health system in the United States to commit to becoming carbon negative by 2030, a goal that spans 51 hospitals, more than 1,000 clinics, and 120,000 caregivers across seven western states. In this Insight from Episode 104: Practicing Green Health, Beth Schenk, PhD, RN, FAAN, Chief Environmental Stewardship Officer at Providence, explains what it takes to make an operati
Insight 28: A Nurse's Guide to Healthcare Sustainability
The NHS became the world's first health system to commit to reaching net zero emissions in October 2020. But bold national commitments only become reality through the people doing the work at the point of care. In this Insight from Episode 104: Practicing Green Health, Emma Pascale Blakey, PhD, RN, Nurse Lead for Sustainability at NHS England, makes the case that nurses and midwives have a valu
Insight 27: Nurse-led Strategies for Greener Health Systems
If the healthcare sector were a country, it would be the fifth largest carbon emitter on the planet. Yet sustainability remains one of the most underdeveloped strategies in healthcare leadership. In this Insight from Episode 104: Practicing Green Health, Shanda Demorest, DNP, RN, PHN, formerly the Senior Director of Network Experience & Solutions at Practice Greenhealth, makes the case that embe
Episode 134: The Real Reel Stories of Nurses
Nursing is a scientific discipline, a public health infrastructure, and a body of knowledge built at the intersection of biology, behavior, community, and systems. Nurses are in schools and boardrooms, in legislatures and laboratories, in emergency rooms and living rooms, at bedsides and borders. They are scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and the profession most consistently p
Episode 133: Ethics in Motion
After a decade, the new ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses arrives as the nursing profession is projecting a shortfall of over 100,000 registered nurses by 2038, with burnout affecting approximately one-third of nurses, and growing demands on their attention and resources. Ongoing federal legislative efforts addressing nurse-to-patient ratios and workplace safety, the rise of artificial intelligence i
Nurses Are: Leaders | Ama Mathewos
Ama Mathewos, MPA, BSN, RN, NEA-BC, is a nurse, certified executive coach, and founder of Evolve Lead Succeed. After nearly two decades in nursing, from med-surg and oncology floors in New York City to six years as a nurse manager that spanned the COVID-19 pandemic, Ama led her team from significant challenges to achieving ANCC Magnet designation. That journey crystallized her belief that emotion
Nurses Are: Innovators | Robyn Barriffe
Robyn Barriffe, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, CCRN-K, didn't set out to become a nurse. A single mother of four, she felt something like a divine nudge and went for it. More than two decades later, having led nursing teams at NorthShore Health System in Chicago, Novant Health in North Carolina, and most recently Atrium Health Pineville, where she guided the hospital to its first-ever ANCC Pathway to Excellenc
Nurses Are: Advocates | Heather Bartlett
Heather Bartlett, BSN, RN, CEN, CNML, is a nurse educator and supervisor in the Emergency Department at MyMichigan Medical Center Midland in Midland, Michigan. She is the person responsible for orienting every nurse, ED tech, and unit assistant who joins their team, equipping each one with the confidence, competence, and humanity to show up for patients on their worst days. Her mission is deeply
Nurses Are: Team Players | Jaden Dennis
Jaden Dennis, RN, is an emergency room nurse and former NCAA Division I track-and-field athlete, who knows exactly what it feels like to place something precious in someone else's hands and trust they'll run with it. After starting college on an athletic scholarship in Brooklyn, Jaden spent the pandemic taking stock. He had been studying economics, a path chosen more for convenience than calling,
Nurses Are: Entrepreneurs | Marguerite Rowell
Inspired by stories of the nurses who cared for her cousin, who traveled to the US from the Bahamas for open-heart surgery, Marguerite Rowell, MSN, MSM/HM, MBA, ONC, SCRN, NEA-BC, decided in the eighth grade that she wanted to be a nurse. She came to the United States, joined Baptist Health South Florida, and spent nearly 25 years advancing from staff nurse to charge nurse, to manager, to direct
Nurses Are: Catalysts | Rachell Dumas
Rachell Dumas, MSN, RN, is a nurse informaticist, health tech founder, and health advocate whose path into nursing began with a single anatomy class and whose journey into innovation began with nearly losing her life. After a four-year struggle through nine pregnancy losses, she finally welcomed a baby boy. Six months later, she woke up unable to see. When she arrived at the emergency department
Nurses Are: Role Models | Jester Lloyd Bautista
Jester Lloyd Bautista, MSN, PhD, RN, grew up in the Philippines as the eldest of seven siblings in an impoverished family and dreamed of becoming a pilot. Instead, the people who funded his education chose nursing. He was 20 when he graduated, and 22 when he found himself standing in front of rooms full of nursing graduates preparing for their licensure exams. That experience unlocked something:
Nurses Are: Change Agents | Anny Jenkins
Anny Jenkins, MSN, RN, grew up in a small, rural town in West Virginia, the first nurse in her family. Her father, a fireman who everyone in their community knew by name, showed her what it looked like to drop everything and help people. That instinct led her to nursing, though the road was long and nonlinear. She began as an LPN, earned her associate degree from Blue Ridge Community and Technic
Episode 132: Safer Together | The Nurse Well-Being Imperative
Protecting nurses and healthcare workers physically and mentally is not just one component of the Safer Together National Action Plan; it may be the one that holds all the others together. In this third episode of our Safer Together series, Patricia McGaffigan, RN, MS, Vice President of Safety at IHI, President of the Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety, and co-chair of t
Insight 26: Nurse Voices Are Closing the Gap Between Work Imagined and Work Done
What if the biggest risk to patient safety in your organization is a broken communication loop? When one of the nation's largest health systems conducted its first National Action Plan assessment, leaders expected to find gaps in the process. What they didn't expect was to find gaps in communication and assumptions held at the top that didn't match the reality on the ground. In this Insight f
Insight 25: Nurse Well-Being is Foundational to Patient Safety
More than 25 years after To Err Is Human put patient safety on the national agenda, the crisis persists. The WHO estimates that 1 in 10 patients worldwide experiences harm during medical care, and half of it is preventable. And yet one foundational factor remains overlooked: the well-being of the people delivering care. With more than half of nurses reporting burnout and hundreds of thousands exp
Episode 131: AI in Play | The Clinicians Shaping Healthcare Technology Part II
There is a palpable mix of excitement and anxiety about the latest impending wave of Artificial Intelligence. AI tools are being developed that will fundamentally impact our jobs, our relationships, our access to knowledge and creativity, our children's lives, and our planet. But for an industry like healthcare — where fax machines and pagers are common, where people struggle to find affordable
Episode 130: AI in Play | The Clinicians Shaping Healthcare Technology part I
There is a palpable mix of excitement and anxiety about the latest impending wave of Artificial Intelligence. AI tools are being developed that will fundamentally impact our jobs, our relationships, our access to knowledge and creativity, our children's lives, and our planet. But for an industry like healthcare — where fax machines and pagers are common, where people struggle to find affordable
Insight 24: Nurses Moving Care From Complex to Complete
Some of the most complex health challenges aren't medical alone — they're human, social, and deeply interconnected. In this SEE YOU NOW Insight from "Episode 80: Health Starts with Housing," nurse and systems leader Lauren Hardin shares how she built a model of complex care that brings providers together across sectors to serve people whose needs fall through the cracks of fragmented systems.
Insight 23: Nurses are Human-Centered Designers
Nurses sit at the intersection of people, systems, and care, and that perspective makes them powerful designers of better healthcare. In this Insight from Episode 24: Designing With, nurse and service designer Brittany Merkel shares how the core practices of nursing are also the foundations of human-centered design, and why it's important to design with nurses, not for them. To listen to thi
Insight 22: How Investing in Nursing is Valuing Health
Understanding the value of nursing care in the US requires a shift, not only in policy, but in philosophy. In this SEE YOU NOW Insight drawn from Episode 129: Investing in Nurses! Invisible to Invaluable, Pam Cipriano, immediate past president of the International Council of Nurses and former president of the American Nurses Association, explains how U.S. healthcare economics have historically
129: Investing in Nurses! Invisible to Invaluable
Nurses are the scaffolding of our nation's health, and the foundation of our shared humanity, yet their work is still too often treated as invisible. In this episode we ask, what does it truly mean to invest in nurses, and what's at stake if we fail to act? Join host Oriana Beaudet, Vice President of Innovation at the American Nurses Association, Credentialing Center, and Foundation for a conv
Welcome To 2026
As healthcare faces mounting pressures, from workforce shortages and rising costs to growing uncertainty, we're also standing at the edge of extraordinary possibility. Technological advances are reshaping how care is delivered, how research is done, and how we might finally move closer to health equity. In 2026, SEE YOU NOW will continue its mission to bring you the stories and the people beh
Insight 21: Everyday Creativity Supports Health
Creative expression has powerful effects on our health and well-being, far beyond what we once imagined. In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, drawn from Episode 81: Making Spirits Bright (Part I), Susan Magsamen, Executive Director of the International Arts and Mind Lab at the Brain Science Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and senior advisor to the Science of Learning Institute at Johns Hopkins Un
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Nurses are tackling some of today's most complex challenges. On SEE YOU NOW, you'll meet nurses leading change through powerful stories that approach health and healthcare with curiosity, innovation with compassion, and center the human experience. For more information on resources, visit ANA's Innovation Website at: https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/innovation/ Have questions or feed
Insight 20: A Nurse-Led Charter for a Healthier World
Some of the most transformative solutions in global health emerge from one deceptively simple discipline: listening. 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
128: Investing in Nurses! Nurses Are Humanity in Action
In a moment marked by rising geopolitical instability, accelerating climate change, recurring pandemics, and deep economic uncertainty, nursing stands at a critical crossroads. The global nursing workforce is already under severe strain, and the World Health Organization projects a shortfall of approximately 4.5 million nurses by 2030. Yet, even as health needs become more complex, health funding
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. Her story re
127: Safer Together | From Plan to Practice
Implementing a national patient safety plan sounds straightforward on paper. In practice, it requires something far more challenging: shifting an entire organization's culture. In this episode, Patricia McGaffigan, RN, VP, IHI; President, Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety, talks with the Vice President for Patient Safety and Compliance within Ascension, Kelly Randall, Ph.
Insight 18: How Small Home Changes Transform Aging
Aging is a story of adaptation, strength, and possibility. In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, from Episode 50: Owning Your Aging, nurse, researcher, and philosopher Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN 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 by pairing home visits from a nurse
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, a
Insight 16: The Birth of Empowerment
Pioneer, MacArthur Fellow, and nurse-midwife Ruth Watson Lubic, EdD, RN, CNM, FAAN, FACNM opened the nation's first freestanding birth center in 1975, challenging a system where women often had little voice in their own maternity care. In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, she reflects on the movement that grew from one center in New York City to more than 350 across the country, and the transformationa
Insight 15: Oral Health Saves Lives
Hospital-acquired pneumonia is among the most serious and costly hospital-acquired infections in the United States. Yet, as nurse, educator, and historian Dian Baker, PhD, APRN-BC, PNP, PHN explains, prevention can begin with something as simple as a toothbrush. In this SYN Insight, Baker shares how empowering patients, families, and nurses with knowledge and resources can dramatically reduce pne
126: AI in Play: Working Smarter, Not Harder
Across healthcare, new technologies often land in the hands of nurses without their input, adding complexity instead of easing it. In the age of artificial intelligence, more than ever, leaving nurses out of the design process risks creating tools that miss the mark, fail to build trust, threaten safety and security, and can add to the very burdens they're meant to relieve. In this episode of
Insight 14: Everyone Welcome: The Lasting Change of Innovation
In this SEE YOU NOW Insight, nurse leaders Gaurdia Banister, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, and Hiyam Nadel, MBA, CCG RN, share how the Ether Dome Challenge at Massachusetts General Hospital is using open innovation to surface frontline solutions and strengthen care delivery. Against a backdrop of persistent nurse staffing shortages and a global talent emergency, they show how including every role group
Insight 13: Making Space to Empower Recovery
In healthcare, innovation often begins with scientists, problem-solvers, and designers, AKA nurses who see challenges and envision solutions. In this SEE YOU NOW Insight from Episode 78: Making Spaces (Part I), 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
Insight 12: Nurse Hackathons a Key to Innovation
Hackathons are intense, fast-paced events where interdisciplinary teams come together to solve complex problems. In this SEE YOU NOW Insight from Episode 46: What The Hack? Health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn and nurse innovator Rebecca Love explain why it's critical to bring nurses into the hackathon mix to address some of the most pressing problems in healthcare. To listen to this Insight clip
Insight 11: Why Nurses Belong in Elected Offices
While some nurses already serve in elected office, their numbers are far too few, and our communities are missing out. 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. Drawing on their holistic training, problem-solving skills, and deep understandi
Episode 125: Nursing is Still Political
Two years after introducing listeners to Healing Politics, with Episode 95: Nursing is Political, Kimberly Gordon, DNP, CRNA, returns along with co-founder Lisa Summers, BSN, MSN, DrPH, with sobering research and renewed urgency about nurses' political participation. When more nurses are civically engaged, communities are healthier. Why? Because legislative decisions shape everything from h
Insight 10: How Nurses Are Working to Reform Healthcare
All across the country, nurses are designing evidence-based solutions that deliver whole-person, community-centered, prevention-focused care. But outside of the profession, few people know they exist. In this SEE YOU NOW Insight from Episode 102: Healthier Policies for Healthier People, nurse Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, MPH, LCSW, RN, executive director of The Institute for Policy Solutions at
Insight 9: When Voting is Easier, Health Gets Better
What if voting could help reduce infant mortality? Or improve mental health? Turns out, it can. 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. From historic expansions of the electorate to modern-day health disparities, the data is clear, removi
Insight 8: Voting Is a Vital Sign
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. From the policies that shape our health to the trust we place in the system, they reveal how nurses and healthcare providers can play a powerful role in strengthening both
124: On the Road to Rural Care
Providing access to consistent, quality care in sparsely populated or hard-to-reach places is no easy feat. It involves addressing issues including infrastructure, workforce, funding, and proximity, not to mention tackling problems from hospital closures to the shrinking provider workforce. In this episode, we're taking a road trip across the vast state of Texas, a state where 83% of its near
Insight 7: A Civil Society Starts in the Care Environment
In this SEE YOU NOW Insight from Episode 96: Addressing Moral Distress Across the Healthcare Workforce, 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. Howell
Insight 6: Better Conversations Build a Workforce That Can Thrive
"What I fear is a lot of executives are chasing things that may not really help their workers or help their environment, because they haven't really had that two-way engagement about what healthcare workers need." -Christopher Friese 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
Insight 5: Honoring Loss, Holding Space, Healing Together
Caring for others takes a toll, and healing from that toll requires intention. In this moment from Episode 5: Pause for a Moment, 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
Insight 4: Healing Through Harmony
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. Episode 70: Northwell Health Nurse Choir For more information on resources, visit AN
123: Safer Together | The Architecture of a Movement
Despite decades of effort and innovation since the groundbreaking To Err is Human report over 25 years ago, preventable harm in healthcare persists, and violence against healthcare workers continues to rise. With record understaffing, burnout, mandatory overtime, and mounting documentation demands, the pressure to provide safe care has never been higher nor the stakes more urgent. In this firs
Insight 3: The Power of Love in Patient Safety
Healthcare safety begins with culture, and culture starts at the top. Nurse Julie Kennedy Oehlert speaks to how transforming healthcare systems requires redefining culture through empathy, love, and relationship-building, not mandates or fear. Prioritizing workforce well-being is essential to delivering safe, trusted, and patient-centered care. Dismantling hierarchical, fear-based structures is t
Insight 2: Safer by Design: Nurses at the Helm of AI in Healthcare
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in healthcare, safety hinges on who shapes these tools. Nurses must be involved at every stage of AI development, from design through deployment. Their clinical expertise, real-time supervision, and ongoing testing are essential to ensuring AI systems are not only intelligent but also safe, patient-centered, and trustworthy. To listen
Insight 1: Protecting Nurse's Wellbeing
Protecting nurses' mental health isn't optional; it's essential. There are proven, evidence-based strategies that can make a real difference, from integrating resiliency training into nursing education to implementing anonymous mental health screening programs. And often, it's the small actions, a pause, a check-in, even a simple email, that can truly save lives. To listen to this Insight clip's
Introducing | SEE YOU NOW: INSIGHTS
We're thrilled to launch a brand-new series from SEE YOU NOW: INSIGHTS. Now available in your feed! Each week, 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
Coming Soon NEW Powerful Stories of Nurses Leading Healthcare Transformation
We're back with new stories, new voices, and a renewed commitment to spotlighting nurse-led innovation. As SEE YOU NOW celebrates 5 years of sharing the bold ideas and groundbreaking work of nurses, we're looking ahead to the next chapter and amplifying the ways nurses are leading transformative change in healthcare. In upcoming episodes, we'll explore patient safety with Don Berwick and Patricia
122: AI in Play: More Social Work. Less Paperwork.
One of the biggest barriers standing between millions of Americans and programs assisting with food, utilities, and healthcare is—wait for it—enrollment paperwork. It's not so much the lack of programs or their awareness of them, it's the capacity, across many touchpoints in the health and human services ecosystem to support navigating the paperwork and enrollment process. In fact, in 2024, 5 mi
121: AI in Play: Smarter Care
Remember those clunky voice assistants from the early days of the internet? Well, the AI technology behind them has evolved dramatically and thanks to the power of Generative AI, we're now talking to a new breed of conversational digital agents. These advanced AI agents can hold meaningful conversations with patients, offering multilingual support and knowledgeable guidance on a range of health
120: AI in Play: Big Picture, Big Questions!
AI is everywhere! From delivering the tacos you crave to the car you drive to the clinical trial you might need -- it's reshaping our world and our work. AI-based technologies are helping solve complex problems in nearly every discipline, industry, and human endeavor. And in healthcare, artificial intelligence is a game-changer. AI-based technologies do many things faster and better than humans
119: Indigenous People, Health & Nursing
Indigenous nurses bring more than clinical expertise to their practice—they bring a legacy of resilience, cultural knowledge, and a commitment to holistic care that honors their ancestors, culture, and history. For Native and Indigenous nurses, advancing practice means blending tradition and cultural humility with innovation to meet the unique needs of their communities, build trust, and transform
118: Power of the Podcast: This Is Getting Old
The 2024 annual report from the Commonwealth Fund describes in detail that Americans face greater barriers to accessing and affording healthcare than those in peer nations. Now, nurses are overcoming those barriers to access through a new, growing medium: podcasting. In our Power of the Podcast series, we explore how nurses are taking their expertise to the airwaves to share evidence-based care
117: Power of The Podcast: Walking Home From The ICU
The 2024 annual report from the Commonwealth Fund describes in detail that Americans face greater barriers to accessing and affording healthcare than those in peer nations. Now, nurses are overcoming those barriers to access through a new, growing medium: podcasting. In our Power of Podcast series, we explore how nurses are taking their expertise to the airwaves to share evidence-based care
117: Power of The Podcast: Walking Home From The ICU
The 2024 annual report from the Commonwealth Fund describes in detail that Americans face greater barriers to accessing and affording healthcare than those in peer nations. Now, nurses are overcoming those barriers to access through a new, growing medium: podcasting. In our Power of Podcast series, we explore how nurses are taking their expertise to the airwaves to share evidence-based care
116: Power of the Podcast: Stronger After Stroke
A new annual report from the Commonwealth Fund describes in detail that Americans face greater barriers to accessing and affording healthcare than those in peer nations. Now, nurses are addressing the ongoing disparities that result through a new, growing medium: podcasting. In a new series for SEE YOU NOW, we explore how nurses are taking their expertise to the airwaves to share evidence-based c
115: Herencia Hispana | Hispanic Nurses in Action
This Hispanic Heritage Month, we're amplifying the voices of Hispanic nurses who are transforming healthcare through research, advocacy, and unwavering dedication to their communities. In this special sampler episode, hear from nurse scientist Roxana Chicas, PhD, RN, FAAN whose groundbreaking work on heat-related illness among agricultural workers is protecting vulnerable populations and influen
114: Ready to Level Up
Around the world, millions of children undergo surgeries requiring general anesthesia; and along with it, the universal and understandable experience of – anxiety. A peak moment of anxiety and stress often occurs during anesthesia induction when a mask needs to be placed on a child's face. It's a stressful experience for kids, parents, and staff and studies have shown that high anxiety before sur
113: Nurses on the Hill
History and experience show that nurses raising their voices shape health policy. From advancing the profession to advocating for patients, nurses are well-positioned to articulate and champion the changes and legislation needed for better health, care, and access. That's the idea behind the American Nurses Association's (ANA) annual 'Hill Day,' which focuses on advocating in the United States Con
112: When We All Vote
Voting and health. It's a pairing with a growing body of evidence (and even its very own Index!) supporting the links between this powerful duo and how they impact and amplify one another and dramatically shape the health of individuals, communities and democracies. From green spaces to clean air, policy decisions impact our health and wellbeing just as much – and often more – than any individu
111: Extreme Heat
It's been a hot 12 months – according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, June 2024 was the thirteenth consecutive month of record-breaking global temperatures. The Centers for Disease Control estimates approximately 1,200 people in the United States are killed by extreme heat each year, and that number is expected to rise as hotter temps increase the incidences of heat str
110: Health for All FOLX
In our ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, access to quality, expert care remains a significant challenge, particularly for historically marginalized communities who have well-documented health disparities. As the conversation surrounding gender-affirming care grows, an unfortunate truth remains: LGBTQIA+ individuals face significant barriers when accessing care and navigating healthcare syste
109: Celebrating Juneteenth
In this special edition of SEE YOU NOW, we're celebrating Juneteenth! As a podcast focused on how nurse-led innovation strengthens our healthcare systems and transforms lives, we're marking Juneteenth with a playlist and sampler episode amplifying the significant healthcare contributions of Black nurses who are at the forefront of healthcare transformation, driving progress, and building healthi
108: Investing in Nurses! Leadership & Care Transformation
Despite broad awareness and agreement on the need for massive and urgent investment in nursing to transform our complex health and care systems, the American Nurses Foundation's Philanthropic Support for the Nursing Profession report revealed that nursing receives just one penny of every healthcare philanthropy dollar. In this third and final episode in our series of rare, in-depth unscripted con
107: Investing in Nurses! A Nurse's Journey
In 2023, in a first-of-its-kind, The American Nurses Foundation's Philanthropic Support for the Nursing Profession report revealed that nursing receives just one penny of every healthcare philanthropy dollar despite broad awareness and agreement of the need for massive and urgent investment in nursing to transform our complex health care systems and care delivery. In this second episode in our
106: Investing in Nurses! Insights in Action
In 2023, in a first-of-its-kind, The American Nurses Foundation's Philanthropic Support for the Nursing Profession report revealed that nursing receives just one penny of every healthcare philanthropy dollar despite broad awareness and agreement of the need for massive and urgent investment in nurses and nursing to transform our complex health care systems and care delivery. In this se
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In 2023, in a first-of-its-kind, The American Nurses Foundation's Philanthropic Support for the Nursing Profession report, revealed that nursing receives just one penny of every healthcare philanthropy dollar despite broad awareness and agreement of the need for massive and urgent investment to unlock the full potential of nurses and the nursing profession to expertly, equitably and cost-effective
105: Fostering Kids ❤️ Fostering Families
Our kids are not okay. Social isolation, technology use, and mental health conditions like anxiety and depression are all spiking for children and teens. The US Surgeon General's Advisory on Protecting Youth Mental Health conveys, "the challenges today's generation of young people face are unprecedented and uniquely hard to navigate. And the effect these challenges have had on their mental healt
104: Practicing Green Health
Imagine – healthy people living in equitable and resilient communities on a thriving planet! That's the vision of Practice Greenhealth, a sustainability network delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,700 hospitals and health systems in the US and Canada. Healthcare sustainability is important work – if the healthcare sector were a country, it would be the fifth largest carbon emitter o
Listen Again | 72: Marathons with Meaning
We're cheering on runners in the 2024 Boston Marathon this week by having another listen to our episode featuring Nurse Practitioner, elite runner, and Guinness World Record holder, Samantha Roecker, FNP. A competitive runner and nurse, she has a *track record* (pun intended) of breaking barriers and addressing stigmas, and for the 2022 Boston Marathon, she combined her passion for nursing and ru
Update | 96: Addressing Moral Distress Across the Healthcare Workforce
March 2024 marks two years since President Biden signed into law the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act. This landmark, first-of-its-kind legislation has funded more than $100 million in grants to implement strategies to reduce and prevent burnout, stress and suicide, sustain well-being, and build workplace cultures and practices so our healthcare workforce can thrive. The law a
103: Women Making History
Women's History Month celebrates women's achievements, acknowledging notable women in history and the important role they've played across societies, industries, and culture. There is perhaps no greater source of women's history-making and contributions to society, science, and social systems than healthcare and the nursing profession with its historically high representation of women among its ra
