Emergency departments are under a level of strain unlike anything leaders have faced before. Clinical complexity is rising. Teams are younger and less experienced. Leaders are often promoted without preparation. And systems built for a different era are now being stretched beyond their limits. In a recent Healthcare Plus Podcast conversation, Dan Collard spoke with Regina Shupe about her new book, Rewiring the Emergency Department: Innovative Solutions for Modern Emergency Medicine, and what it takes to lead effectively…

When the founders of uLeadership—Kay Kennedy, Lucy Leclerc, and Susan Campis—met in 2019, they were seasoned nurse executives who had spent years working all day and night to serve teams and patients. Then they hit a wall. “We were at a point in our career where, quite honestly, we felt a little burned out,” says Leclerc. “We were high level, overachieving work all day and night type leaders, and that’s probably part of why we…