Episode 72, Elizabeth Johnson, PhD, MS-CRM, RN, Assistant Professor, Montana State University Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing, Incoming President of the Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design
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Dr. Elizabeth Johnson discusses her journey in healthcare design and the intersection of nursing, technology, and design.
"As a system scientist and a nurse, my patient is now the hospital." –Elizabeth Johnson on HID2.0 On today's podcast episode, Cheryl sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Johnson (PhD, MS-CRM, RN)—Assistant Professor at Montana State University's Mark & Robyn Jones College of Nursing, host of Designing Care On-Air, and incoming President of the Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design (NIHD). Elizabeth lives at the intersection of nursing, technology, and design, with a passion for designing healthcare systems—especially for rural, frontier, remote, and tribal communities where distance and infrastructure shape what care can look and feel like. In this conversation, Elizabeth shares the "permission" moment that changed her path into healthcare design, her research using mobile and wearable technology to support clinical trial participant safety, and the powerful insights coming from The Kind Room Project—where children use art to show what a healthcare space looks like when it helps them feel calm, safe, and brave. Along the way, she offers a reframe you won't forget: "My patient is now the hospital." In this episode, we cover The moment that changed everything: being asked (for the first…
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