Insights from Mark Johnson, President of the American Nursing Informatics Association

Stressed. Overwhelmed. Under-supported. For too many nurses, that's not an occasional bad week — it's the daily reality. The question isn't whether the system is broken. It's what a real fix looks like, and who's actually building it.

In this episode of Revolutionizing Care, we sit down with Mark Johnson, President of the American Nursing Informatics Association, along with leaders from Mona Lisa Healthcare. The conversation moves past the familiar talking points about burnout and into something more useful: what it takes to rebuild nursing workflows from the inside out, using AI and home-based acute care as the foundation rather than the afterthought.

The Cognitive Load Nobody Talks About

Burnout in nursing isn't just a volume problem. It's a cognitive load problem. Nurses are holding dozens of data points in their heads simultaneously — medications, orders, patient histories, compliance requirements, shift handoffs — while navigating software that was designed to document care after the fact, not support it in the moment.

Mark unpacks what nursing informatics has learned about this gap, and why the next generation of clinical tools has to treat the clinician's attention as the scarcest resource in the room.

Why Home-Based Acute Care Changes the Stakes

The shift from facility-based to home-based acute care isn't a scheduling change. It's a full rethink of how clinical teams coordinate, document, and communicate when the patient is across town instead of down the hall. Legacy EHRs weren't built for this world. The tools nurses use have to travel with them — and think with them.

That's where Sherpa Care comes in. Mona Lisa's AI-native EHR platform was built for the real environments clinicians work in: homes, cars between visits, hospital-at-home programs, and the handoffs in between.

What We Covered

Smart tasking that adapts to the visit and the clinician, not the other way around. Real-time documentation supported by an AI assistant that drafts alongside the nurse instead of leaving them to chart at the end of a twelve-hour day. Seamless support from hospital to home, so transitions of care stop being the weakest link in the chain.

This isn't a conversation about technology for technology's sake. It's about freeing clinicians to do what they're trained to do — care for patients — by removing the friction that's been piled on top of that work for the last fifteen years.

Watch the Episode

The full conversation is above. If you lead a nursing team, run a home health agency, or are thinking hard about what the next five years of care delivery actually look like, this one is worth the time.