Join us on Community Possibilities as John Silver, a registered nurse, shares his vision of a future where healthcare operates as a hybrid public utility, emphasizing the need for multidisciplinary approaches and political advocacy to address systemic issues like access and resource distribution.
John and his collaborators establised Nurses Transforming Healthcare, an organization rallying the nursing community to tackle systemic challenges head-on. The mission of Nurses Transforming Healthcare is "to transform healthcare to a model based on wellness and disease prevention which is affordable and accessible to all." John shares his vision for a future with accessible, well-funded community health centers. Innovative initiatives like the "Flip the Zip" campaign highlight the potential for community engagement to create enduring health improvements. Tune in to learn how individual commitment and community-driven solutions can pave the way for a more equitable and efficient healthcare system.
Bio John Silver
After 24 years in healthcare, including 14 years as a Registered Nurse, Dr. Silver was drawn to the essential problem facing nursing- Why couldn’t Nursing ensure safe levels of practice in facilities, and why was the healthcare system we had so dysfunctional in terms of Public Health outcomes and the neglect of so many communities. John soon realized that the problems were linked. If nursing could not ensure safe levels of practice, and were not actively engaged at the decision tables as to where resources were allocated in the systems, how could Nursing ensure the maximum benefit for our patients would be realized?
The answer lay in the political relationship of nurses to the facilities, and Nursing to the political process. Embarking on a journey of research and discovery in his Public Intellectual Ph.D in Comparative Studies, John published a book just a union…of nurses (2013) about the history of how the California nurses brought about staffing legislation, which he hoped would provide an example of how nurses could become politically effective in their states. He advised several nursing groups on this, including NP’s as they worked towards independent practice and prescriptive authority.
He traveled abroad to study other healthcare systems and developed what he thought the goals of a healthcare system must be. From there he began advocating for the only system design that truly met those goals and addressed the needs of providers, patients, and all our communities- an adapted Public Utility model. Dr. Silver has been working with an innovative interdisciplinary team of people forming Nurses Transforming Healthcare and working to implement the model in the
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