Christianna Facey-Crowther, RN, is a Registered Nurse in general surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital. Her innovation is to produce a podcast called At The Bedside. It is a digital product hosted on an open website and also available on major podcast players. Coincidently, the first episode of the podcast was released the day of the reception. It is accessible through any internet-enabled device, and can be found at www.atthebedside.ca.

In her proposal, Christianna noted that while there are a number of high-quality and popular medicine podcasts for a variety of specialties, there are very few for nurses and she found little in the literature that evaluates their utility as a method for continuing nursing education. Moreover, the nursing role and the perspective of patients and families are almost entirely absent within this volume of digital content. Watch the video below for more details about the project.

Christianna’s $15,000 award will cover the expenses of producing the second season of podcasts, and conducting a formal evaluation of season 2 through focus groups and digital measuring tools.