Posts Tagged: entrepreneur

Nightingale’s Innovative Nurse: (November): Amelia Roberts, RN

  Meet Amelia Roberts, RN What do you love about being a nurse? What I love about being a nurse is the perspective I get! From where I stand, I see life with all that it offers, both problems and solutions. In my nursing role, we deliver patient care in a variety of forms. This viewpoint… Read more

Health Tech Venture Network Female Entrepreneurship Conference: Recap

A nice recap of the HealthTech Venture Network Female Entrepreneurship Conference on October 7th in Seaport Boston. “To hear the other women’s stories and to hear how similar, not necessarily the specifics are, but just the accounts of the day-to-day… I felt like I was in the right place. And there are so many times you feel… Read more

Nightingale’s Innovative Nurse (October): Dr. Shanina Knighton PhD RN

Meet Dr. Shanina Knighton: The Entrepreneur in Patient Hand Hygiene Describe your initial interest in patient hand hygiene?  As a student nurse during my clinical rotations I would often hear about the importance of healthcare worker hand hygiene, but with flu outbreaks such as Swine and H1N1 being an issue at the time I wondered… Read more

“How does being a female entrepreneur influence how you lead?”

“How does being a female entrepreneur influence how you lead? ~ from Saturday’s HealthTech Venture Conference focused on Female Entrepreneurship I know why this question is often asked and why it is one to answer. Women receive less than 5% of investment dollars. (This isn’t because women aren’t participating in the entrepreneurial marketplace ). However, I… Read more

Nursing workarounds and what they mean for the future of healthcare

Nursing workarounds and what they mean for the future of healthcare.  Last evening, I spoke to a group of approximately 60 graduate nursing students at Northeastern University in Boston MA.  I spoke on the topic of nurse entrepreneurship and intrapraneurship. The faculty members, Dr. Laura Mylott and Dr. Janet Rico wanted to show their students… Read more