Meet Dr. Olga Yakusheva
Olga Yakusheva, PhD, MSE, FAAN, is an internationally leading expert and thought leader on the economic value of nursing to healthcare systems. She is an economist and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and an economics editor for the International Journal of Nursing Studies. Dr. Yakusheva’s work has been published in top economics and medical journals including Review of Economics and Statistics and JAMA.
Dr. Yakusheva’s research team has led studies quantifying the value-added contribution of nurses to patient outcomes and to organizational financial outcomes, to improve nurse staffing, reduce burnout, and promote the economic value of nurses. Dr. Yakusheva is the lead author of the Nursing Human Value Capital Model and the Value-Informed Nursing Practice and Leadership Model.