The World Health Organization (W.H.O) designated 2020 the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. Over the past several months, we will celebrate nurses’ contribution to the healthcare profession through a series of conversations with some of the top nurses we have collaborated with while planning healthcare environments.

Celebrating the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife

Our kickoff to the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife.

A Conversation with Brittni McGill

Brittni McGill, MSN, RN, CCRN, is Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer at Norman Regional Health System in Oklahoma. She has a Masters in Healthcare Administration from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Bachelors in Nursing from the University of Oklahoma. In the following, she talks about her personal satisfaction working in a supportive profession that is not just a job but “a calling.”

A Conversation with Kate Hellmich

Kate Hellmich, RN, is a surgical ICU nurse at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She received her Master in Nursing from Rush University College of Nursing in Chicago. She spent this past summer as a traveling nurse in Brooklyn, New York, caring for COVID-19 patients before starting full-time at Mayo this August. In the following, she talks about her inspiration “to serve” in her chosen profession.

A Conversation with Sheila Burns

Sheila Burns, RN, is a Labor and Delivery nurse at Allina Health’s Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. Originally from Minnesota, she began her nursing career in Houston in 1999 before returning to Minneapolis and joining Abbott Northwestern Hospital in 2001. In the following, she talks about her personal satisfaction working with expectant mothers and their newborns.

A Conversation with Allie Janous

Allie Janous, RN, is a medical ICU nurse at Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas, part of Ascension in Austin, where she cares for COVID-19 patients in a 30-bed unit that has designated more than half the beds for COVID this spring. In the following, she talks about the challenges and  rewards of nursing since attaining her licensure in 2014 and joining Dell Seton in September 2019.

A Conversation with Sarah A. Cypher

Sarah A. Cypher, DNP, RN, CMSRN, NE-BC, is Director of Nursing for Surgical Units at Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, where she directs nursing practice, education, professional development, research, and nursing services. She has collaborated with HGA on several research studies over the years to help create inpatient facilities that improve patients and staff wellbeing. In the following, she talks about her personal satisfaction in her chosen profession.

Up Close with Terri Zborowsky

Terri Zborowsky shares thoughts on engaging nurses in the healthcare planning process and how Florence Nightingale’s trailblazing work inspires her own evidence-based design research.