Early in her nursing career, during an internship at a cancer hospital, Corrin Steinhauer, RN, DNP, NEA-BC, CPPS, learned a valuable lesson she’s never forgotten. A wise, experienced nurse taught her “how to build relationships with patients … how to be kind and to be there for your patients,” said the new Chief Nursing Officer of the James. In this episode, Steinhauer describes how she got into nursing, her previous nursing and leadership positions, her connection with her patients, and why she came to the James earlier this year. In her new, leadership role, Steinhauer said her primary job is to be an advocate for the staff of approximately 1,500 James nurses. Steinhauer is also working on a new strategic nursing plan that ties in with the overall strategic plan for the rapidly growing OSUCCC – James. The overall goals of the strategic plan, she said, “are to continue to be one of the top five cancer centers, and that means a lot of leadership, at an informal, staff level, and also at a higher level for all of those with more formal, administrative titles. How do we continue to develop this community of nurses and make sure we remain relevant, up-to-date and are practicing with the best evidence-based guidelines? That’s our goal.”