Nursing
Nursing
“I’m a nurse who’s also a healthcare entrepreneur": Meet the woman behind an app designed to help nurses battle burnout
Treating patients day and night is just one part of the job description for this enterprising nurse, who has made it her mission to help fellow nurses persevere during the pandemic and beyond. And it’s not her first great healthcare innovation.
Could the answer to preventing hospital-acquired pneumonia be as simple as better oral care? This nurse thinks so.
Some 157,000 patients are diagnosed with the condition each year. But trailblazing nurse Dian Baker has a straightforward yet innovative solution.
4 ways Johnson & Johnson is helping heroes who work at the very front lines of healthcare around the world
In time for the Aspen Ideas: Health festival, where he will be speaking, Michael Sneed, Executive Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs & Chief Communication Officer of Johnson & Johnson, shares why nurses, midwives and other healthcare workers are a critical facet in improving worldwide health.
“They needed to feel loved": How one nurse revolutionized patient care during the AIDS crisis
In the early 1980s, Cliff Morrison did what no other San Francisco General Hospital staff member had the guts to do: come up with a humane way to treat and care for AIDS patients. As the International AIDS Conference kicks off, we learn more about the life-changing initiative to practice compassionate nursing—and how the legacy of Ward 5B lives on.
365 days of caring: 13 ways Johnson & Johnson helped progress health for humanity in 2018
From a $10 million pledge to UNICEF in support of health workers to promising news about a preventive HIV vaccine regimen, the company’s new 2018 Health for Humanity Report details how Johnson & Johnson is dedicated to creating a better future for everyone, everywhere.
Modern-day Nightingales: Meet three enterprising nurses who moonlight as inventors
From a clever way to help prep kids for surgery to a baby bottle nipple shaped just like Mom’s, these nurses’ bright ideas helped them win Johnson & Johnson’s first nursing innovation challenge—and a total of $100,000 in grant money.
We need to treat nurses like gold": Maria Menounos joins a new campaign to support nurse innovators
For International Brain Tumor Awareness Week, the celebrity interviewer opens up about how her recovery from a brain tumor inspired her to become an ardent advocate for enterprising nurses on the front lines of care.
How the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami inspired a lifesaving disaster nursing training program
It was the strongest earthquake on record in Japan—and it devastated Tohoku. In observance of the United Nations’ International Day for Disaster Reduction, we tell the stories of survivors-turned-students of the Tomodachi J&J Disaster Nursing Training Program, who are transforming personal tragedy into hope for the future.
Nurse innovators: The change agents of healthcare
When Johnson & Johnson launched its Campaign for Nursing’s Future more than a decade ago, it helped address a dire nursing shortage. Now it wants to inspire nurses to be medical trailblazers.
“I’ve always considered myself a ‘MacGyver’ nurse": How one woman is propelling healthcare forward
Johnson & Johnson knows all about the great impact nurses can have—like Roxana Reyna. Recently, for National Nurses Week, she shared the innovative ways she cares for the tiniest patients.