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 the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, shines a light on the hundreds of proven nurse-led interventions quietly transforming health outcomes, and shares how the Institute for Policy Solutions at Johns Hopkins aims to expand these innovations by creating policy pathways for scaling and spreading diverse, innovative and impactful models of care, and bring them to national attention by serving as a resource center where policymakers and news outlets can routinely seek nurses’ input.  

To listen to this Insight clip’s full episode visit SEE YOU NOW Podcast Episode 102: Healthier Policies for Healthier People at APPLE, SPOTIFY, or YOUTUBE or at your favorite streaming platform. For more information on the podcast bundles, visit ANA’s Innovation Website at https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/innovation/education. 

Have questions or feedback for the SEE YOU NOW team?  Future episode ideas? Contact us at [email protected]. 

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, removing barriers to voting improves health for everyone. 

To listen to this Insight clip’s full episode visit SEE YOU NOW Podcast Episode 112: When We All Vote at APPLE, SPOTIFY, or YOUTUBE or at your favorite streaming platform. For more information on the podcast bundles, visit ANA’s Innovation Website at https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/innovation/education.  Have questions or feedback for the SEE YOU NOW team?  Future episode ideas? Contact us at [email protected]. 

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 democracy and well-being, starting with a single question: Are you registered to vote?  

This small ask opens the door to agency, trust, and healthier communities, and reminds us that caring for the public includes empowering their voice. 

To listen to this Insight clip’s full episode visit SEE YOU NOW Podcast SEE YOU NOW Episode 55: Ready to Vote? at APPLE, SPOTIFY, or YOUTUBE, or your favorite streaming platform. For more information on the podcast bundles, visit ANA’s Innovation Website at https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/innovation/education.  Have questions or feedback for the SEE YOU NOW team?  Future episode ideas? Contact us at [email protected]. 

APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/55-ready-to-vote/id1488523483?i=1000530539421

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/71h7hkuZGBjDQfTYmLXmsX

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZv5-emUC8U

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 nearly 270,000 square miles of land is made up of farms, ranches, and forests, with over 4 million people living in these rural areas. At the steering wheel is a nurse practitioner and professor  Barbara Chapman DNP, MBA, APRN, FNP-C, NHDP, PMHNP-BC who is committed to using and combining every approach possible, including mobile health care, to address access to care issues not only in rural areas, the places where people are hard to reach and often hardly reached, but also driving toward solutions where everyone, regardless of where they live, has access to the quality, timely, whole-person care they need and deserve. 

Find this episode’s resources at www.seeyounowpodcast.com, and for more information on the podcast bundles, visit ANA’s Innovation Website at: https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/innovation/education/.  

Have questions for the SEE YOU NOW team? Feedback? Future episode ideas? Contact us at [email protected].    

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 reminds us that the relationship between nurses and society is not merely transactional; it’s a covenant, rooted in profound moral commitment, trust, and service. When this sacred trust is broken, it leaves nurses vulnerable not just physically, but emotionally and ethically. Howell shares how preventing workplace violence, ensuring 24/7 mental health support, and building peer accountability are critical steps toward restoring safety, support, and a sense of shared responsibility in healthcare environments. 

To listen to this Insight clip’s full episode, visit SEE YOU NOW Podcast Episode 96: Addressing Moral Distress Across the Healthcare Workforce at APPLE, SPOTIFY, or YOUTUBE, or at your favorite streaming platform. For more information on the podcast bundles, visit ANA’s Innovation Website at https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/innovation/education. 

Have questions or feedback for the SEE YOU NOW team?  Future episode ideas? Contact us at [email protected]. 

“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 the alarm: without listening directly to healthcare workers, even well-meaning policies may fall short of making a difference.  

Nurses experience rates of burnout, trauma, and suicide that exceed both the general population and even physicians. Yet stigma, fear of licensing consequences, and unsupportive systems too often prevent them from getting the help they need.  

Friese shares how the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act is transforming national policy and shifting the conversation around workforce mental health, but he’s clear that legislation alone isn’t enough.  

What’s needed, Friese explains, is genuine two-way engagement between leaders and frontline clinicians. To protect and sustain the healthcare workforce, we must remove barriers, reimagine environments, and build cultures of safety, trust, and well-being together. 

To listen to this Insight clip’s full episode visit SEE YOU NOW Podcast Episode 65: Sending out an S.O.S. at APPLE, SPOTIFY, or YOUTUBE or at your favorite streaming platform. For more information on the podcast bundles visit ANA’s Innovation Website at https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/innovation/education. 

Have questions or feedback for the SEE YOU NOW team?  Future episode ideas? Contact us at [email protected]. 

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 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.

Episode 70: Northwell Health Nurse Choir 

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 first episode of our new series focusing on safety in healthcare, we explore a bold shift toward "total systems safety" with two leaders at the forefront of this movement who know these challenges all too well. Patricia McGaffigan, RN, MS, CPPS, Senior Advisor for Patient and Workforce Safety at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and President of the Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety, and Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Together, they continue to shape national safety efforts including IHI’s Safer Together: National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety the first public-private collaboration of its kind. Spearheaded by McGaffigan and bringing together 27 major organizations that had never collaborated before. The plan aims to restructure the very foundation of healthcare, building safety into every level of the system around four interlocking pillars.

• Leadership & Governance: Strong, visible leadership and policies that make safety a strategic priority.
• Workforce Safety & Well-Being: Protecting nurses and healthcare workers – physically and mentally – so they can care safely for others.
• Patient & Family Engagement: Partnering with patients and family caregivers as co-designers of safe care.
• Learning Systems: Creating feedback loops and continuous improvement so lessons from one hospital spread everywhere.

At the heart of this movement is a truth long understood by nurses: safety is not a checklist or a policy, it’s a culture, a commitment, and a collective responsibility. As Patricia McGaffigan reminds us, “You can’t have patient safety if you don’t have a safe workforce.” And as Don Berwick warns, “The illusion that safety is a matter of individual effort is one of the most toxic notions in the whole safety enterprise. It is we, not me.”

Nurses have always led by example, holding space for healing while navigating broken systems. Now, their leadership is essential in building the future of healthcare safety: one that protects not only patients, but the people who care for them. Where healthcare is not only safer, but also is a culture that ensures we’re all Safer Together.

Find this episode’s resources at www.seeyounowpodcast.com, and for more information on the podcast bundles, visit ANA’s Innovation Website at https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/innovation/education/.

Have questions for the SEE YOU NOW team? Feedback? Future episode ideas? Contact us at: [email protected].

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 the crucial first step toward real and lasting change. 

To listen to this Insight clip’s full episode, visit SEE YOU NOW Podcast Episode 64: Reporting Powers: Leading with Love at: 

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/64-reporting-powers-leading-with-love/id1488523483?i=1000545318823 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ocmOaZHNDyPJ9x1yn5Wt5 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thyFtdz6kZQ 

or at your favorite streaming platform. 

For more information on the podcast bundles, visit ANA’s Innovation Website at: https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/innovation/education.   

Have questions or feedback for the SEE YOU NOW team?  Future episode ideas?  

Contact us at [email protected].