Now Innovating: 'Nursifying’ social innovation and enterprise

20/03/2025 19 min Temporada 6 Episodio 6
Now Innovating: 'Nursifying’ social innovation and enterprise

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In this episode, we speak with Sue Crawford, RN, MN’20, manager of the Health Systems Transformation Initiative (HIVE) in the Faculty of Nursing and co-founder and executive director of Enable, a social enterprise that facilitates meaningful matches between people with disabilities and support workers.  Sue discusses how the HIVE initiative utilizes nursing expertise to empower innovators and change agents to enhance health and health care delivery by applying transdisciplinary solutions. We also discuss nurse entrepreneurship through Sue’s experiences with launching Enable, and the role nurses play in health care innovation.  This episode is also available as a fully captioned and transcribed video that you can watch here: https://youtu.be/0p31b7cnodE  Learn more about:  The Health Systems Transformation Initiative: https://nursing.ucalgary.ca/HIVE  Enable: https://enablecommunity.ca/ Learn how to move your research-to-impact in the UCalgary innovation ecosystem: https://ucalgary.ca/innovation  

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