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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...

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...

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...

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 Hopki...

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/ innovati...

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 sa...

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...

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 remi...