Ep 164 – Nurse-Led Innovation in the Future of Value-Based Care Transformation, with Rebecca Love, RN, MSN, FIEL

What this episode covers

This week is National Nurses Week, and it is a time to honor the contributions and sacrifices of nurses who perform some of the most difficult and heartbreaking tasks in the medical world.  As workers who perform the most essential healthcare tasks, nurses serve as the first point of contact for most patients…and they save lives and restore health in the process.  Yet, nursing is often a thankless profession that is underappreciated and experiences high levels of burnout and moral injury.  There are a multitude of factors related to societal attitudes towards the nursing profession, and many of them result in a lack of recognition and support, inadequate compensation, limited opportunities for career advancement, and ultimately a lack of respect and appreciation for the work they do.  We must begin to think about how to better position the profession to take a leading role in healthcare innovation.  Nurses must become more empowered as we transition to a future of value-based care. This week on the podcast, we are honored to be interviewing Rebecca Love.  She is an experienced nurse executive, the first nurse featured on Ted.com, and part of the first nurse panel at South by Southwest. Rebecca is a regular contributor on the Forbes Business Council, and has been featured in BBC, Fortune, Becker's, Forbes, Chief Healthcare Executive Magazine and ABC news. Rebecca, was the first Director of Nurse Innovation & Entrepreneurship in the United States at Northeastern School of Nursing – the founding initiative in the Country designed to empower nurses as innovators and entrepreneurs, where she founded the Nurse Hackathon, the movement has led to transformational change in the Nursing Profession. In early 2019, Rebecca, along with a group of leading nurses in the world, founded and is President Emeritus of SONSIEL: The Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs & Leaders, a non-profit that quickly attained recognition by the United Nations as an Affiliate Member to the UN. Rebecca is a world renowned Nurse Entrepreneur and currently serves as the Chief Clinical Officer of IntelyCare. Click here to learn more Episode Bookmarks: 01:30 National Nurses Week – a time to honor the contributions and sacrifices of nurses who perform some of the most difficult and heartbreaking tasks in the medical world. 02:00 We must better position the nursing profession to take a leading role in healthcare innovation.  Nurses must become more empowered as we transition to a future of value-based care. 02:30 Introduction to Rebecca Love – a nationally-recognized nurse executive and entrepreneur, the first nurse featured on TED.com, and part of the first nurse panel at SXSW. 03:00 Rebecca founded and is President Emeritus of SONSIEL: The Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs & Leaders and currently serves as the Chief Clinical Officer of IntelyCare. 04:00 Support Race to  Value by subscribing to our weekly newsletter and leaving a review/rating on Apple Podcasts. 04:30 How do we better position the nursing profession in the value-based care movement? 06:30 “There is going to be no healthcare in the future without nurses leading value-based care.” 07:00 How tracking VBC outcomes by Provider NPI # is a challenge since nurses do not have assigned NPI #’s. 07:45 Nursing costs were rolled into room rates in the 1930’s with the establishment of modern-day insurance models. This occurred due to a male physician-dominated environment. 08:30 Nurses are the only clinical professional in the healthcare environment without a NPI for billing or tracking outcomes!