On a daily basis, we trust nurses with billions of dollars of equipment, critical procedures, and our most important assets: the people we love. But they're doing so much more behind the scenes. SEE YOU NOW is a podcast that shines a light on the real people changing the status quo in health: from nurses working in labor & delivery, with infectious diseases, and in hospice; to nurse allies in politics, business, and tech. Created in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson and the American Nurses…
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…
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 a n…
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…
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 S enior Director of Network Experience & Solutions at Practice Greenhealth , makes the case that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…