MyNursePal
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SylviaAbbeyquaye

Twenty-one years across every angle of nursing, now building the infrastructure that should have existed all along.

PhD, MPA, RN · Author of three books on nursing workforce and long-term care

I'm a Nurse.

And like millions of nurses across the world, I didn't experience healthcare as a system — I experienced it as workarounds.
I was trained to deliver safe, high-quality care. But every day, I worked inside systems that made that harder instead of easier.

We coordinated care across shifts that didn't talk to each other. Tools that didn't connect. Teams that lacked shared visibility. Processes that rewarded documentation over outcomes.
When something broke down, when a patient fell through the cracks, it wasn't the technology that felt the pressure.

It was the nurse.

Sylvia during her years of bedside nursing care.
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Moment of Clarity

At some point, it became clear:

  • Healthcare doesn't fail because people don't care. It fails because the people holding it together are unsupported.
  • Nurses are the largest workforce in healthcare. We are the constant across settings. We manage the handoffs, the coordination, the follow-through.

Yet the systems we work in were never designed around how care actually happens.

They were built for billing. They were built for hierarchy. They were built far away from the bedside.

The moment of clarity — recognising healthcare's systemic gaps.
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The insight no one
was acting on

Here's the insight that changed everything:

  • Nurses already run healthcare. They just don't control the infrastructure.
  • If we redesigned the system from the nurse's workflow outward — not as an add-on, not as a patch, but as the foundation — care would feel natural instead of stressful. Teams would work together instead of around each other. Patients wouldn't get lost between transitions.

So instead of asking nurses to adapt to broken systems, we decided to build a system that adapts to nurses.

The insight: nurses already run healthcare.
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What we are building

We are building a nurse-led healthcare operating system designed around two ideas the industry has gotten backwards: the system should adapt to the clinician, not the other way around. And care should continue between visits, not stop at the door.

Around these two ideas sits everything a care operation needs: workforce management, scheduling, task ownership, clinical workflows, care coordination, and financial sustainability.

All in one system. Designed by people who understand care logistics because they live them.

Building the nurse-led healthcare operating system.
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Why now?

  • Healthcare is at a breaking point. Nurses are burning out. Systems are fragmented.
  • Costs are unsustainable. Care is shifting out of hospitals.
  • The future of healthcare is team-based, distributed, and nurse-led.
  • The infrastructure hasn't caught up.
  • We're building it.
Why now: healthcare at an inflection point.
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Background

From the bedside to the boardroom.

Clinical & Leadership Experience

  • 21 years in nursing across bedside care, leadership, education, and research
  • 12 years in direct bedside care
  • Nursing leadership roles, including Director of Nursing
  • Nurse educator
  • Nurse researcher
  • Author of three books on nursing and long-term care
  • Active RN

Education & Credentials

  • PhD
  • MPA (Master of Public Administration)
  • RN
  • Author of three books on nursing workforce and long-term care: The Talent Retention Code, Navigating Long-Term Care: A Practical Approach for Nurses, and Navigating Long-Term Care: A Reflective Workbook for Nurses
  • Nurse retention expert and educator

Work with Sylvia

Available for speaking advising, and media.

Sylvia speaks on nurse retention, healthcare workforce strategy, decentralized care, and nurse-led infrastructure. For inquiries, contact us at info@mynursepal.com.