Heart of Safety Coalition

The power of nurses and their collective voices

05.6.2026

Nurses have the power to make moments matter – day after day – for their patients, families and team members. In recognition of this powerful profession and Nurses Month, we’re amplifying nurse voices from our Caring Greatly podcast from the past four years.

Thank you to the nurses who shared their career insights, personal stories, best practices and more to help improve the safety and wellbeing of nurses and other care team members.

• Carlton Abner, DNP, RN, NBC-HWC: Protecting capacity to learn as a focus of wellbeing
  
• Mark Allred, MSN, RN: A nurse-security liaison supports safer healthcare environments
• Terri Bogue, RN, MSN: Recovery techniques to turn trauma into growth 
• Amanda Choflet, DNP, RN, NEA-BC: Preventing suicide among clinicians starts with understanding
• Pam Cipriano, PhD: How systems and leaders can build and support a healthy nursing workforce 
• Robin Geiger, DNP, MSN, APRN: Supporting nurse wellbeing across the career continuum
• Wallena Gould, EdD, CRNA, FAAN:Diversifying the field of anesthesiology
• Sarah-Marie Baumgartner, RN:Workplace violence prevention and recovery in the emergency department
• Molly McCarthy, MBA, RN-BC: Nursing engagement in technology design and implementation is essential to safety and wellbeing
• Lauren Muñoz, PhD, RN, FNP-BC: Safety and wellbeing transformation through the Workplace Change Collaborative
• Rosanne Raso, DPN, RN, CENP, FAAN, FAONL, FFNMRCSI: Linking leader and team member wellbeing 
• Cynda Rushton, PHD, RN, FAAN: Managing the polarity of changing the system versus personal resilience
• Rose O. Sherman, Ed.D, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN: Leading the evolving healthcare workforce

These nurses care greatly. Listen and learn from their collective voices.