Innovation in Nursing Education + Design Thinking for Health with Marion Leary — DT101 E41

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marion Leary is the Director of Innovation at the Pennsylvania School of Nursing. We discuss innovation and nursing education, University of Pennsylvania’s free online Design Thinking for Health platform, nurses as innovation leaders, and why storytelling matters. Show host: Dawan Stanford.</span></p> <p><strong>Show Summary</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Design thinking was not Marion’s first focus. She was a researcher for 13 years before taking the role of Director of Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She has a dual degree, with a Master’s in Nursing and Public Health. Marion is currently pursuing her Ph.D., focusing on innovation and design thinking around cardiac arrest and bystander response. She is interested in using design thinking to solve problems in nursing and healthcare.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marion enjoys the empathetic, human-centered approach of creatively solving problems in health and healthcare, which connects with nursing. She is a leader in design thinking and created the course Innovation and Health Foundations of Design Thinking using a flipped-classroom, active-learning approach. This interdisciplinary course at Penn can be taken by upper-level undergraduate or graduate students, regardless of their major.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learn how Marion collaborates with other departments to create a successful design thinking cohort, how she coordinated the first Penn Nursing Innovation Accelerator Program, and how Marion is integrating design thinking into her curriculum.</span></p> <p><strong>Listen in to find out:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How nursing and design thinking are similar iterative processes</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">More about the Innovation and Health Foundations of Design Thinking course</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weigh