About us
Behind the Hive
A nurse-led learning community built on one belief: nurses learn best from other nurses.
Empower every nurse with meaningful, accredited education and authentic community connection. Hive Nurse blends microlearning with leadership development and reflective practice, using story-driven approaches to transform continuing education into a pathway for personal growth, professional excellence, and collective impact.
To be the global hub where nurses come together to learn, reflect, share, and lead — a profession elevated by stories, strengthened by knowledge, and united through purpose-driven action and meaningful change in healthcare.
Elizabeth is a doctorally prepared nurse practitioner, educator, and healthcare leader with deep expertise in nursing education, professional development, and systems improvement. Her career spans clinical practice, academic leadership, program development, and quality and safety initiatives. She has led the design and delivery of evidence-informed education across diverse care settings and understands firsthand the limitations of traditional continuing education models. At Hive Nurse she brings rigorous educational standards, clinical credibility, and a deep commitment to practical, nurse-centered learning.
Ashley is a nurse leader, strategist, and innovator with extensive experience in nursing leadership, workforce engagement, and professional development. Her background includes frontline nursing, leadership roles, and work at the intersection of education, technology, and organizational culture. Her expertise lies in building scalable systems that support nurses as professionals — not just employees. At Hive Nurse she leads platform strategy, partnerships, and community growth, ensuring the ecosystem remains accessible, mission-aligned, and rooted in the realities of nursing practice.
Nursing is the largest, most-trusted, most-essential professional workforce in healthcare — and it deserves to be built for, not built around.
Nursing is 4.5 million professionals strong — the backbone of every hospital, clinic, and care setting in the country. A workforce of that scale, that consequence, and that complexity deserves infrastructure built specifically for it. Not a category recycled from physician CME. Not a learning system retrofitted from corporate compliance training. Something designed, from the ground up, to meet the lives and the learning needs of practicing nurses.
The platforms nurses use today were largely built by software companies, private-equity firms, and organizations whose primary expertise lies outside the nursing profession. We are different. Hive Nurse is led by doctorally prepared nurses with decades of frontline, education, and leadership experience — designed by people who have lived the realities we are trying to address.
The lived experience of the bedside, the wisdom of the charge nurse, the insight of the preceptor, the perspective of the nurse who has done it for thirty years — these are the profession's most underutilized educational resources. Nursing knowledge moves nurse-to-nurse, shift-to-shift, generation-to-generation. A learning community for nurses must honor that lineage — surface it, credential it, and build the platform around it, not in spite of it.
The AACN 10 Essentials define the competencies of professional nursing practice across the career lifespan — from entry-level to advanced practice and leadership. They should anchor not just academic preparation but every continuing education module, every reflection, every leadership pathway. We map every learning experience on the platform to the Essentials, because lifelong learning deserves the same competency rigor as the rest of the profession.
Compliance-driven CE. Annual mandatory training. Lagging satisfaction surveys. Dashboards that count completions instead of growth. The systems hospitals deploy today were designed for auditors and administrators, not nurses — and the result is a workforce that complies without engaging, while leaders make consequential decisions on stale data. The tools have failed the people.
Development belongs inside the workday, not after it. It should be designed for the device in a nurse's pocket, for the windows of time that exist between rooms and between patients — the realities of shift life as it is actually lived. Honoring nursing development means honoring nursing time, nursing expertise, and the nurse.
Not adapted from another discipline. Not borrowed from another industry. Not bolted onto an existing learning system. Designed from the ground up around the rhythms of shift work, the rigors of clinical practice, the realities of nursing leadership, and the lived experience of being a nurse in 2026.
Hive Nurse is what we believe, built.