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In this month’s episode, Nadine Rosenblum, nursing inquiry coordinator for the Center for Nursing Inquiry speaks with Paula Murray, manager of nursing professional specialty programs at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Paula describes her role, and discusses the ways she and her team contribute to Magnet designation by helping nurses develop an ‘inquiry mindset.’ Learn how Paula and her team help nurses stay curious throughout their careers! The process starts with nursing orientation and continues with professional development, mentoring and support for QI projects and other initiatives. Paula ends with some advice on getting involved with inquiry work and nursing education.

Publishing the results of your work is an important way to share what you’ve learned with other nurses and – bigger picture – advance the science of nursing. Finding time to actually write, however, can be challenging.  That is where WAGs – Writing Accountability Groups – come in. In this month’s podcast, the Center for Nursing Inquiry’s Nadine Rosenblum sits down with the Johns Hopkins Health System’s Nurse Scientist, Dr. Heather Watson, to discuss WAGs. Heather defines WAGs and provides tips for finding and making the most of Writing Accountability Groups. This episode will help you set – and meet - your writing goals!

In this month’s podcast, Nadine Rosenblum, Nursing Inquiry Coordinator, discusses taking a project from the idea stage to dissemination with Dr. Donna Berizzi, DNP, Associate Chief Nursing Officer for the Johns Hopkins Health System. Follow along as Donna discusses her current work, details a recent project (presented at several conferences), and provides tips for writing a successful abstract and producing an effective poster. They end with tips for new nurses, or nurses new to inquiry work – find out why ‘fresh eyes are so important’ to nursing and nursing inquiry.

In the third and final episode from the 2023 SHINE Conference, expert panelists Kristina Burger, DNP, RN, Suzanne Dutton, DNP, RN, GNP-BC, Lisa Klein, MSN, RN, AGCNS-BC, and Tania Randell, MS, RN, ACCNS-AG, join the Johns Hopkins Health System’s Nurse Scientist, Heather Watson, PhD, RN, to discuss engaging staff in inquiry work. There are a variety of reasons - from lack of confidence to lack of time – that nurses feel they can’t pursue inquiry questions that arise at the bedside. The panelists have experience addressing barriers to participation in inquiry work – listen in to learn more.

In the second episode in our series of leadership panels from the 2023 SHINE Conference, inquiry experts Holley Farley, MSN, RN, Kim Kuperman, MSN, RN, Rossana Oakley, MSN, RN, Gosia Ryan, MSN, RN, and Amy Sawyerr, MPH, BSN, RN, RNC-LRN join moderator Heather Watson, PhD, RN the Nurse Scientist for the Johns Hopkins Health System, to discuss tips and tricks for using quality improvement to improve your scores.

In this episode, we’re beginning a special series, featuring our leadership panels from the 2023 SHINE Conference. Heather Watson, PhD, RN, Nurse Scientist for the Johns Hopkins Health System, discusses next steps after a project has been presented at a conference with Jade Flinn, M.S.N., R.N., unit director for the Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Unit, Lynn McDonald,  D.N.P., R.N., Clinical Program Director, and Karin Nevius, M.S.N., R.N., Director of Professional Practice and Quality. Jade, Lynn, and Karin detail the different strategies they used to build on their momentum after presenting at the 2021 SHINE Conference.