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HAOP 2025 · No. 01

Nurses Are Good for Business: Expanding Leadership Beyond Healthcare

Cole Edmonson; Nancy Mannion

From the recording

Nurses are not passive observers. They are active participants when they are all in and when they are at the table.

Cole Edmonson

About this episode

Cole Edmonson and Nancy Mannion lead the Nurses on Boards Coalition, and they came ready to show that nurses are good for business. Nancy walked me through the nursing process of assess, plan, implement and evaluate, and how naturally it carries into a boardroom. Cole traced his path from shared governance at his hospital to an anti-trafficking board in Dallas. We also talked about the coalition's more than 11,000 board placements.

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