HOT TOPIC 2

The Past, Present, and Future of Nurse-Led Innovation

Thursday, November 2  |  7:30 – 9:00 a.m.

This session will identify how nurses are transforming health care and discuss their power to drive health care’s future. It will define “nurse innovation,” discuss historic nurse innovators, identify key themes of how to cultivate a culture of innovation in health care, and discuss design thinking and innovation processes and how they relate to health care.

1.5 Continuing Education Hours Applied For: ACHE Qualified Education Hours, Certified Professional Healthcare Quality Hours, Compliance Hours, Nursing Contact Hours, and Risk Management Hours

This session is sponsored by AHA Services, Inc.


Meet Rebecca Love, RN, BS, MSN, FIEL
Rebecca  is an experienced nurse executive and first nurse featured on Ted.com, and recognized as one of Modern Healthcare's most influential people in healthcare in 2022. 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 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 an experienced Nurse Entrepreneur, founding HireNurses.com in 2013 which was acquired in 2018 by Ryalto, LTD UK, where she served as the Managing Director of US Markets, until it’s acquisition in 2019. Currently, Rebecca serves as the Chief Clinical Officer of IntelyCare, Inc. Rebecca is passionate about empowering nurses and creating communities to help nurses innovate, create and collaborate to start businesses and inventions to transform healthcare.  

Rebecca holds a M.S. in Nursing from Northeastern University, B.A. in International Relations/Spanish from Boston University, an, sits on the board of NextGen Ventures, Health Science Entrepreneurs at Northeastern University & the Host Committee for the Massachusetts ACLU. 

Rebecca Love

Chief Clinical Officer

IntelyCare