Design Thinking for Health
An online platform that teaches nurses an equity centered framework to tackle the complex challenges they see in their practice.
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Here you will find the tools, resources, and inspiration needed to generate innovative and equitable solutions that impact health and healthcare in a rigorous and systematic way.
What is Design Thinking?
Design Thinking is a framework to generate innovative solutions through creative problem solving using the Equity Centered Design framework. It involves 7 stages: Notice, Empathy, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test, and Reflect.
Whether you want to learn about a new topic or have an idea you want to take to fruition, you’re in the right place!
Case Studies
Click through the case studies below to see how inspiring nurse innovators used design thinking principles to create solutions to problems they saw in their practice.
Bowles
Co-Founder of RightCare Solutions
Holguin
Patented the first-ever foot care telehealth system
Szanton
Helping elderly community members live more safely at home
Walker
Co-creating support strategies for cancer survivorship
Brooks Carthon
Executive director of THRIVE
Co-Founder & CEO of Lumify Care
Founder and CEO of Thrive Link (formerly Nutrible)
Director of Midwifery at Community of Hope & Assistant Professor in the Midwifery/Women’s Health Nursing Practitioner Program
Nurse Innovators
Are you an aspiring nursing innovator interested in connecting with other nurse innovators? Have you created an innovation and would like to share it with our community? Fill out the form below to tell us all about it! Feel free to share a bit about yourself and your interests in innovation.
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