The Rebel Nurse Handbook

3rd Place Winner of the AJN Book of the Year Award 2020: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES Chosen by Katheren Koehn, MA, RN, FAAN

Rebecca Love, MSN, BS, RN, FIEL President, Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, and Leaders (SONSIEL) Rebecca Love is a nurse entrepreneur, inventor, author, Tedx speaker, the first nurse featured on Ted.com, and part of the inaugural nursing panel featured at SXSW 2018. Love was the first Director of Nurse Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the United States at Northeastern School of Nursinga founding initiative designed to empower nurses as innovators and entrepreneurs. There she founded the Nurse Hackathon; the movement has led to transformational change in the nursing profession. Rebecca is an experienced nurse entrepreneur, founding HireNurses.com in 2013 (acquired in 2018), and currently serves as the President of SONSIEL. In early 2019, Rebecca, along with a group of leading nurses in the world, founded SONSIEL: The Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, and Leaders. Love is passionate about empowering nurses and creating communities to help nurses innovate, create, and collaborate to start businesses and inventions to transform healthcare. Rebecca holds an MS in Nursing from Northeastern University and a BA in International Relations/Spanish from Boston University; she is currently a faculty member at Norwich University and sits on the board of NextGen Ventures and the Host Committee for the Massachusetts American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). She currently lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with her husband and three children. Nancy Hanrahan, PhD, RN, FAAN Nancy Hanrahan is an experienced professor and leader with a joy for creating opportunities for nurses and spreading the often-unknown value of nurses for safe, healing healthcare environments. Her skills include the following areas: education development, behavioral health, research of mental health services, healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship, public health, public speaking, and transformational leadership. Her PhD focused on mental health service research from Boston College and her postdoctoral study was at the University of Pennsylvania at the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research. Dr. Hanrahan leads the Nurse Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute at University of Massachusetts at Boston. This program empowers nurses to lead research and innovation that transform health systems using big data, to redesign the healthcare experience of patients and families, and to engage patients in meaningful health behavior change. Her work has been widely published and has received national and international awards for development of innovative interventions. She is cofounder of the Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, and Leaders (www.sonsiel.com) and principal/cofounder of Nurse Approved, LLC (www.nurseapproved.health). Mary Lou Ackerman, MBA, BScN Vice President, Innovation and Digital Health Mary Lou Ackerman is vice president of Innovation and Digital Health with SE Health. Ms. Ackerman is a founding member of the Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs, and Leaders (SONSIEL) and an active member of Canadas Health Informatics Executive Forum (CHIEF) with Digital Health Canada. Her background is extensiveshe has led the development and implementation of many business transformation projects, innovations, and partnerships. She joined Saint Elizabeth in 1987 as a visiting nurse, and she has augmented her clinical background with a graduate business degree and significant experience with health informatics, innovation, and digital health. Ms. Ackerman has a passion for community healthcare, combined with a desire to advance care, creating innovative service models supported by digital health technologies, to create a future that will provide a personalized, accessible, meaningful health experience for individuals, their families, and the service providers who support them. Amy Rose Taylor, AGNP-BC, BSN, RN Clinical Services Manager and Podcast Host, UnitedHealth

Contributors Foreword Molly K. McCarthy, MBA, BSN, RN-BC Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Try. Fail. Pivot. Try Again. The Path to Success. 1. Shift Disruptors: Stories of Nurses Recognizing Their Unique Role in Healthcare 2. Overcoming the Odds: Pioneer Nurses Blazing Trails Around the World 3. Transforming Your Passion: Innovatively Adaptive Nurses Working Across Multiple Sectors 4. The Price of Compassion: Soulful Stories of the Humanity of Nursing 5. Sharing Their Story: Words of Wisdom by Rebel Nurses Who Disrupted the Status Quo 6. Rebel Nurses at the Crossroads: Innovative Methodologies, Reflections, and Resources to Guide the Future of Nursing Bibliography Appendix: Publication Resources Index