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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 them. Protecting nurses also means protecting the knowledge that keeps communities safe. In this episode, guest host Susan Michaels-Strasser, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, of ICAP at Columbia University talks with Amanda McClelland, RN, MPH, MBA, chief program officer at Resolve to Save Lives, and Trish Newport, RN, MPH, Program Manager Emergency Operations, Doctors Without Borders, about turning frontline knowledge into system-wide change.  The 2026 Ebola outbreak in the DRC offers a powerful example of what is at stake: some nurses there are confident that they can work to contain the virus, while others avoid even naming the disease because doing so puts their lives and their clinics at risk. The guests make the case that protecting health workers is a systems responsibility, from water and supplies to safe triage and clear escalation criteria, and not only a matter of individual training. "If nurses identify cases, notify them quickly, protect themselves and protect their facilities," Amanda says, "we stop outbreaks before they even start." These lessons apply well beyond the DRC; as Amanda points out, the same scenario could unfold in a triage unit in Texas. The guests also discuss learning from outbreaks that were stopped early, nurse-led innovations such as MSF's ventilated Smart PPE and redesigned workflows, and how nursing associations and leaders can give nurses a platform to speak up.    Guests  Amanda McClelland, RN, MPH, MBA  Chief Program Officer, Resolve to Save Lives  Resolve to Save Lives profile: https://resolvetosavelives.org/about/team/amanda-mcclelland  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-mcclelland-7a160a121  Trish Newport, RN, MPH  Program Manager Emergency Operations, Doctors Without Borders  MSF profile: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/who-we-are/us-office/people/trish-newport  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trish-newport-895a9b57    Guest Host  Susan Michaels-Strasser, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN  Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (in ICAP), Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Senior Director, Human Resources for Health Development, ICAP at Columbia University  Columbia profile: https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/profile/susan-michaels-strasser-phd  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-michaels-strasser-5aaa7111b    Learn more about SEE YOU NOW. Visit the ANA Innovation website for additional resources: https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/innovation  Have questions or feedback for the SEE YOU NOW team? Future episode ideas? Contact us at [email protected]    Resources  About the Outbreak  World Health Organization. (n.d.). Ebola outbreak - DRC 2026. https://www.who.int/emergencies/situations/ebola-outbreak---drc-2026  World Health Organization. (2026, October 8). Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus - Democratic Republic of the Congo [Disease Outbreak News]. https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2026-DON619  World Health Organization. (2026, May 17). Epidemic of Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda determined a public health emergency of international concern [Statement]. https://www.who.int/news/item/17-05-2026-epidemic-of-ebola-disease-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-and-uganda-determined-a-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern  Epidemic-Ready Primary Health Care  Resolve to Save Lives. (n.d.). Epidemic-Ready Primary Healthcare (ERPHC). https://resolvetosavelives.org/how-we-save-lives/epidemic-prevention/erphc/  Resolve to Save Lives & HealthLearn. (n.d.). Ebola virus disease preparedness course for frontline healthcare workers [Free mobile course]. HealthLearn. https://app.healthlearn.org/go/evd-course  Frieden, T. R., Lee, C. T., Lamorde, M., Nielsen, M., McClelland, A., & Tangcharoensathien, V. (2023). The road to achieving epidemic-ready primary health care. The Lancet Public Health, 8(5), e383–e390. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(23)00060-9  Nurse Intelligence, Innovation, and Health System Leadership  Johnson & Johnson Nursing. (2026, July 13). 13 nurse-led innovations shaping a better healthcare future. Notes on Nursing. https://nursing.jnj.com/notes-on-nursing/13-nurse-led-innovations-shaping-a-better-healthcare-future  National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2021). The future of nursing 2020–2030: Charting a path to achieve health equity (M. K. Wakefield, D. R. Williams, S. Le Menestrel, & J. L. Flaubert, Eds.). The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25982  World Health Organization. (2025). State of the world's nursing 2025: Investing in education, jobs, leadership and service delivery. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240110236  The 7-1-7 Target  Resolve to Save Lives. (n.d.). The 7-1-7 target. https://resolvetosavelives.org/how-we-save-lives/epidemic-prevention/7-1-7/  7-1-7 Alliance. (n.d.). 7-1-7 Alliance [Digital toolkit and free online courses]. https://717alliance.org/  Resolve to Save Lives. (2026). Epidemics that didn't happen [Interactive report]. https://etdh.resolvetosavelives.org/  Frieden, T. R., Lee, C. T., Bochner, A. F., Buissonnière, M., & McClelland, A. (2021). 7-1-7: An organising principle, target, and accountability metric to make the world safer from pandemics. The Lancet, 398(10300), 638–640. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01250-2  Bochner, A. F., Makumbi, I., Aderinola, O., Abayneh, A., Jetoh, R., Yemanaberhan, R. L., Danjuma, J. S., Lazaro, F. T., Mahmoud, H. J., Yeabah, T. O., Nakiire, L., Yahaya, A. K., Teixeira, R. A., Lamorde, M., Nabukenya, I., Oladejo, J., Adetifa, I. M. O., Oliveira, W., McClelland, A., & Lee, C. T. (2023). Implementation of the 7-1-7 target for detection, notification, and response to public health threats in five countries: A retrospective, observational study. The Lancet Global Health, 11(6), e871–e879. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00133-X  Protecting Health Workers  World Bank & Resolve to Save Lives. (2023, July 25). The true cost of failing to protect healthcare workers [Brief]. Resolve to Save Lives. https://resolvetosavelives.org/resources/the-true-cost-of-failing-to-protect-health-care-workers/  Resolve to Save Lives. (2021, January 7). Protecting healthcare workers: A need for urgent action [Report]. https://resolvetosavelives.org/resources/protecting-health-care-workers-a-need-for-urgent-action/  Resolve to Save Lives. (n.d.). Healthcare workers & epidemic preparedness. https://resolvetosavelives.org/epidemic-prevention/health-care-workers/  From Our Guest Host  Michaels-Strasser, S. (2020, March 30). To protect ourselves from the pandemic, we must protect our health workforce. The Hill. https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/490192-to-protect-ourselves-from-the-pandemic-we-must-protect-our-health/  ICAP at Columbia University. (2020, April 7). (Al-Jazeera English) Susan Michaels-Strasser advocates for health worker protections. https://icap.columbia.edu/news-events/al-jazeera-english-susan-michaels-strasser-advocates-for-health-worker-protections/  Parmley, L. E., Hartsough, K., Eleeza, O., Bertin, A., Sesay, B., Njenga, A., Toure, M., Egesimba, G., Bah, H., Bayoh, A., Yakubu, A., Morrison, E. A. B., & Michaels-Strasser, S. (2021). COVID-19 preparedness at health facilities and community service points serving people living with HIV in Sierra Leone. PLOS ONE, 16(4), Article e0250236. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250236  Learning from Aviation  Barach, P., & Small, S. D. (2000). Reporting and preventing medical mishaps: Lessons from non-medical near miss reporting systems. 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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 surveyed.  Nurse practitioners are already filling that gap. There are now more than 461,000 licensed NPs in the United States, delivering nearly a billion patient visits a year, and they tend to live and work in the communities that other providers have never ventured into. What many of them lack is the infrastructure to open and sustain a practice of their own: billing, insurance contracts, technology, and data.  In this episode, guest host Dr. Wendy L. Wright, a family nurse practitioner who owns her own clinic in Amherst, New Hampshire, talks with three colleagues from Duet, a company built around NP practice owners that brings nurse practitioners together with entrepreneurs, investors, and business operators. They discuss why this moment matters, what makes ownership possible, what changes when nurse practitioners get credit for the care they already deliver, and where an NP might begin when starting their own clinic.  Guest Host  Wendy L. Wright, DNP, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, FNAP, owner of Wright & Associates Family Healthcare and Chief Clinical Officer of Duet  Guests  Jonathan Goldberg, Founder and CEO of Duet  Alicia Korpi Ortiz, MPH, Chief Operating Officer of Duet  Efrat LaMandre, FNP, PhD, owner of EG Healthcare in Staten Island and Chief Medical Officer of Duet's ACO      Duet: https://joinduet.com/ Nurse Practitioner Entrepreneur Program, powered by Duke Health and sponsored by Johnson & Johnson: https://sites.duke.edu/npep/ American Association of Nurse Practitioners: aanp.org/sso/login/request/12b7f89e-1cc2-4f6f-a2c1-a7f7a39afb82?returnUrl=%2F

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 build and sustain community in long-term care facilities, especially when they are short-staffed and money is tight? How do you know which technologies are worth investing in for aging parents, ones that are effective and safe without adding stress? As we work out which questions to ask and how to answer them, more companies and health care systems are turning to nurses. That makes sense. Nurses are uniquely positioned to lead and innovate in long-term care. Through both personal and professional experience, they sit closest to the gaps in care and the daily challenges. They are also closest to patients, so they know what will work and how. And they are building the technology and designing the solutions that foster human connection and help people of all ages thrive. In this episode, we meet three nurses building that future. Cami Peterson-DeVries, DHA, AGNP, LNHA, MSN, VP of Senior Services at St. Francis Health Services of Morris, is bringing robots and smart-room technology to her 14 nursing homes.  Roschelle "Shelly" Fritz, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., develops nurse-driven AI and smart homes for aging in place. Shu-Fen Wung, Ph.D., M.S., R.N., A.C.N.P.-B.C., F.A.A.N., studies wearable and radar sensors for fall detection and responsible AI. Together, they show a wide-open, nurse-shaped frontier where technology extends human connection at every touchpoint. Learn more about See You Now. Visit the ANA Innovation website for additional resources. https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/innovation   Have questions or feedback for the SEE YOU NOW team? Future episode ideas? Contact us at [email protected].  Resources Cami Peterson-DeVries, work anniversary profile, St. Francis Health Services of Morris: https://sfhs.org/news/celebrating-cami-peterson-devries-18-year-work-anniversary/  Shu-Fen Wung faculty bio, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis: https://health.ucdavis.edu/nursing/ourteam/faculty/shu-fen-wung-bio.html  Roschelle Fritz faculty bio, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis: https://health.ucdavis.edu/nursing/ourteam/faculty/roschelle-fritz-bio.html  Healthy Aging in a Digital World initiative, UC Davis: https://bigideas.ucdavis.edu/healthy-aging-digital-world  Fritz RL, Dermody G. "A nurse-driven method for developing AI in 'smart' homes for aging-in-place." Nursing Outlook, 2019: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30551883/  Same paper, full text: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6450732  Dermody G, Fritz R. "A conceptual framework for clinicians working with AI and health-assistive smart homes." Nursing Inquiry, 2019: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30417510/  Fritz R, et al. "Nurse-in-the-loop smart home detection of health events." IJNS Advances, 2022: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnsa.2022.100081  Smart-home pain-behavior detection study, JMIR, 2020: https://doaj.org/article/ad95b9ac80a94639b9dbc3b2a211b978  Wung author profile and publication list (includes 2026 responsible-AI paper): https://sciprofiles.com/profile/725636  "Wearable Technologies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Older Adults," JMIR, 2025: https://www.jmir.org/2025/1/e69077  KFF, "Long-Term Care in the United States: A Timeline": https://www.kff.org/medicaid/long-term-care-in-the-united-states-a-timeline/  National Academies, "The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality," Ch. 2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK584647/  Next Avenue, "How'd We Get Here? The History of Nursing Homes": https://www.nextavenue.org/history-of-nursing-homes/  American Scientist, "The Evolution of the Nursing Home": https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-evolution-of-the-nursing-home  ASPE (HHS), "Lifetime Risk of Needing and Receiving Long-Term Services and Supports": https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/what-lifetime-risk-needing-receiving-long-term-services-supports-0  Singlecare LTC statistics roundup (pointer to ASPE, KFF, WHO primaries): https://www.singlecare.com/blog/news/long-term-care-statistics/  U.S. Census Bureau, Demographic Turning Points (one in five Americans 65-plus by 2030): https://census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p25-1144.html  U.S. Census Bureau, older adults projected to outnumber children by 2034: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/12/by-2030-all-baby-boomers-will-be-age-65-or-older.html   

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 do about it.  To listen to this Insight clip's full episode, visit the SEE YOU NOW Podcast Episode 104: Practicing Green Health on APPLE, SPOTIFY, YOUTUBE, or your favorite streaming platform.  Learn more about See You Now. Visit the ANA Innovation website for additional resources. https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/innovation   Have questions or feedback for the SEE YOU NOW team? Future episode ideas? Contact us at [email protected]. 

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 operational rather than just aspirational commitment. She describes the WE ACT framework and scorecard that allows Providence to track resource use, cost, and carbon emissions month by month across every hospital, and explains her practical answer to the question she hears most from other hospitals: where to begin.   To listen to this Insight clip's full episode, visit the SEE YOU NOW Podcast Episode 104: Practicing Green Health on APPLE, SPOTIFY, YOUTUBE, or your favorite streaming platform.  Learn more about See You Now. Visit the ANA Innovation website for additional resources. https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/innovation   Have questions or feedback for the SEE YOU NOW team? Future episode ideas? Contact us at [email protected].