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      Nurses are often the first to detect a health threat. Closest to patients, communities, and emerging  risks, they hear what is said, notice what is not said, and recognize, contain , and respond to the earliest signals of an outbreak. Their frontline intelligence can help identify threats, strengthen preparedness, and reveal both where health systems and processes fail and how to improve the...

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 s...

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 bu...

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  explain...

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 va...

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 cas...

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 pr...

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 arti...

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...

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 p...

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 callin...

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 direc...

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  de...

Jester Lloyd Bautista, MSN, PhD, RN ,   grew up in the Philippines as the eldest of seven siblings in an impoverished famil y  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 somethi...

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 T...

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...

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 In...

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 tho...

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 affor...

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 affor...

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.  ...

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 th...

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 hist...