Helping nurses navigate
the transition from school
to thriving professional.
By partnering with students, faculty, healthcare organizations, and foundations, we help nurses launch successful careers, thrive in practice, and become the future leaders our profession needs.
"We help nursing students and new graduate nurses launch successful careers by developing the confidence, self-awareness, workplace readiness, and self-advocacy skills needed to thrive in today's healthcare environment and grow into nursing's next generation of leaders."
A professional development
pathway — not just a course.
Nurse Launch™ is building a complete career development pathway for nurses — from the final year of nursing school through to experienced leadership. Two programs are active now. Two more are on the horizon.
Two programs. One unbroken
continuum of support.
- Personalised career roadmap built around your values and goals
- Job selection intelligence — choose the right first role, not just any role
- Organization evaluation and strategic interview preparation
- Imposter syndrome strategies and genuine confidence building
- First 90-day survival coaching and peer community
- Monthly expert-led learning sessions on critical early-career topics
- Monthly coaching forums — real questions, real answers, safe space
- Peer community of nurses navigating the same transition
- Confidence, resilience, self-care, and professional identity
- PhD — Brandeis University
- MPH — Harvard University
- MSN — Univ. of Pennsylvania
- RN — Registered Nurse
- FAAN — Fellow, American Academy of Nursing
- FNAP — Fellow, National Academy of Practice
Dr. Nancy Valentine knows
the system from the inside out.
A distinguished leader in the nursing profession, Dr. Valentine has held some of the most consequential nursing leadership roles in the country — including national Chief Nursing Officer of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, where she led 65,000 nursing staff across 173 medical centers.
She has been the top nurse at Cigna Healthcare, SVP/CNO at Main Line Health, Associate Dean at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing, and a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nurse Reserves. She knows exactly where new nurses struggle — because she watched it happen for decades from the inside, and spent those decades developing the framework that Nurse Launch™ is built on.
"As an experienced nurse leader and dedicated nurse advocate, I will provide you with the tools and confidence to have a successful career and live the meaningful life you envision."
— Dr. Nancy Valentine, RN, PhD, MSN, MPH, FAAN, FNAPFrom nurses who've been exactly where you are.
Dr. Valentine shared what our programs forget to teach — the importance of knowing yourself before going into a field where you have to learn about others. Her pedagogy is truly something unique and valuable.
Dr Nancy’s Nurse Launch program is exactly what I needed to launch my career. It transformed my feelings of dread and fear of burnout into genuine excitement for the future and confidence in my ability to navigate the job search process with grace and resilience. I developed the communication tools and confidence needed to navigate the process, advocate for myself, and better understand my own priorities so I could choose the job that’s truly the best fit for me.
It meant a lot to collaborate and connect with students in a situation like mine. A course like this could be invaluable — providing great insight on how to find a job that fits who you are as a person, not just what's available.
Find your path
into the continuum.
Every audience has its own page, its own program, and its own entry point. Choose yours.