Nathan C Bowser’s Post

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How do you contribute? Where does that happen? If you want to step U, if you want to step up, how do you do it? And, and especially outside of the acute care. Since I started a group called the Spark collective that brings nurses together, nursing leaders from the long term care and assisted living space. And we match them with our technology developers. We put them together with startup companies that are looking for the voice of nurses to so that they can. Understand the problems and the situations that these nurse executives are facing every day. And that led me actually to go back to school and I got my PhD in leadership and my focus for my research was elevating the voice of nurse executives in long term care. And you look at the literature when we on nurse executives, much of the nurses represented in the literature are working in the acute care space or for large health systems. And what we understand and know about nursing and nursing leadership in the post acute long term care space is very little. I wanted to elevate the voices of those nurses and give them the opportunity to contribute their perspectives. And they're very unique viewpoints into how care has to be delivered in these settings, which are not well funded and have a very difficult regulatory burden that they're operating under with, you know. Limited resources to do so, so that worked with the Art Collective has really helped some startups really get some great traction.