Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge Series
The Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge series invites the millions of nurses worldwide to submit nurse-led solutions, protocols, technologies, devices and/or treatment approaches.
The nurse innovators with the best ideas will receive up to $100,000 in grant funding and access to mentoring and coaching from experts across the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies to help bring their ideas to life.
The nurse innovators with the best ideas will receive up to $100,000 in grant funding and access to mentoring and coaching from experts across the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies to help bring their ideas to life.
OUR LATEST CHALLENGE
Together with the American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL), we’re excited to announce the awardees of the latest QuickFire Challenge. Nurse innovators Jean Putnam and Paulo Alves and their teams are envisioning a new future of remote monitoring.
Learn From Our Past QFC Awardees
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JEAN PUTNAM
Listen to these people on the front lines—the ideas they have and the things they want to do. Every time I bring something to our nurses, they make it faster and better. This is what nurses do.
JEAN PUTNAM, DNP, MS, RN, CPHQ, NEA-BC
QuickFire Challenge: Nurse-led Tech
ERIN ATHEY
Keep sharing your ideas. Innovation is an iterative process, if you see a need to make a change, keep talking—even if your idea isn’t perfect.
ERIN ATHEY, DNP, FNP, RN, FAANP
QuickFire Challenge: Improving Access to Care
Tracy Zvenyach
I think any nurse thinking about applying for a chance to develop either themselves or their ideas should apply, because the worst thing you’ll ever hear is 'No.'
Tracy Zvenyach, PhD, APRN-NP
QuickFire Challenge: Mental Health
Abby Hess
Your ideas and solutions to these challenges will improve healthcare for patients and clinicians across the world, and they are waiting for you to take the next step.
Abby Hess, APRN, DNP
QuickFire Challenge: Improving Human Health
Nicole Lincoln
Nurses understand patient needs better than anyone else, so I believe anytime a healthcare product or solution is being developed, a nurse should be involved.
Nicole Lincoln, MSN, RN, APRN-BC, CCRN
QuickFire Challenge: Maternal & Newborn Health
Chao Hsing Yeh
Find a positive environment and surround yourself with people who will encourage, motivate and support you endlessly. Once you set up your goal, it may need to take a little detour, but your persistence will pay off. Keep trying, do not give up and do not settle.
Chao Hsing Yeh, PhD, RN
QuickFire Challenge: Perioperative Health
KATHLEEN MALOUF
Come forward with your ideas and products, because just by believing in yourself, you can change healthcare. It’s within your power."
KATHLEEN MALOUF, BS, BSN, RN-BC, CBC, CSRN
QuickFire Challenge: COVID-19 Patient Care
Our Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenges
Healthcare Transformation through Nurse-Led Tech
Together with the American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL), the Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: Healthcare Transformation through Nurse-led Tech launched in November, 2021.
Improving Access to Care
The Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: Improving Access to Care launched in May 2021. The Challenge looked to nurses and students to create potential solutions that aim to improve quality and access to equitable care and ultimately help prevent, intercept or treat disease.
Mental Health
Together with the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA), the Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge on Mental Health launched in 2020.
COVID-19 Patient Care
Together with the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) and the Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs & Leaders (SONSIEL), the Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge: COVID-19 Patient Care launched in 2020.
Oncology Care
Together with the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS), the Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge in Oncology Care launched in 2019.
Maternal and Newborn Health
Together with the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), the Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge in Maternal and Newborn Health was launched in 2019.
Perioperative Care
In collaboration with the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), the Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge in Perioperative Care was launched in 2019.
Improving Human Health
In the inaugural launch of the Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge series in 2018, the more than 3.2 million nurses located throughout the U.S. were invited to submit ideas for new devices, health technologies, protocols or treatment approaches that had the power to profoundly impact patient care and human health.
Helpful Resources for Getting Started
Looking for helpful ways to grow your skills as a nurse innovator? Start with our Innovation 101 hub.
QuickFire Challenge Series Partners
Nurse-led innovation has the power to transform health and healthcare systems. That’s because, in assessing a patient or a problem, nurses don’t just consider results. They use critical thinking to define a problem, and combine objective data with on-the-ground experience and teamwork to create solutions that make sure every patient receives the best possible treatment.
