Marion Leary, RN, MSN, MPH will be our guest speaker on May 10, 2023, from 12PM EST – 1:30PM EDT.

Title: Rethinking Innovation in Nursing Leadership

Marion Leary is the Director of Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing. As the Director of Innovation at Penn Nursing she works to amplify and educate nurses as leaders in health and healthcare innovation. Ms. Leary is a member of the American Nurses Association’s Innovation Advisory Committee and a Founding member of the Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs and Leaders (SONSIEL). She is a host of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing podcast, Amplify Nursing, a contributor to the American Nurses Association’s official journal, the American Nurse as part of the My Nurse Influencer’s column and a contributor to The Nurse Beat as part of the Innovation Conversation segment. An additional resource for the Human-centered Design and Design Thinking topics includes Design Thinking for Health platform: www.designthinkingforhealth.org

The talk will review how to create an innovation program at your nursing institution, specifically discussing what nursing innovation is, how to use innovation methodologies such as human-centered design and design thinking, and will describe various innovation projects and programs that actively engage students, faculty and clinicians.