The Nightingale Front is a foundation in development dedicated to advocating for safer healthcare workplaces, supporting nurses and healthcare professionals impacted by workplace trauma and burnout, and challenging the culture that has normalized unsafe working conditions within healthcare.

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Raising Voices. Advocating for Safety. Creating Meaningful Change.

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For far too long, violence, emotional exhaustion, burnout, chronic understaffing, and unsafe working conditions have been accepted as “part of the job” within nursing and healthcare culture. Healthcare professionals are expected to endure physical assaults, emotional trauma, impossible workloads, compassion fatigue, and chronic stress while continuing to care for others at the highest level.

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The Nightingale Front was created to help change that culture.

Founded by Tammy Scott after surviving a violent workplace attack while working as an emergency nurse, The Nightingale Front is a foundation in the works focused on advocacy, awareness, guidance, and support for healthcare professionals navigating the emotional and psychological impact of working within high-stress healthcare environments.

 

OUR MISSION

The Nightingale Front exists to:

• Advocate for safer working conditions for healthcare professionals

• Raise awareness about workplace violence within healthcare

• Support nurses and healthcare workers experiencing burnout, trauma, emotional exhaustion, and compassion fatigue

• Encourage accountability and meaningful reform within healthcare systems

• Lobby for stronger protections and support for healthcare staff

• Foster connection, empowerment, mentorship, and guidance for healthcare professionals

• Challenge the long-standing culture within nursing that teaches professionals to simply “put up with” unsafe and harmful working conditions

 

Healthcare professionals should not be expected to sacrifice their safety, well-being, mental health, or identity in order to care for others.

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A CULTURE SHIFT IS NEEDED

For generations, many healthcare professionals have been conditioned to normalize violence, burnout, emotional suppression, unsafe staffing, lack of support, and chronic self-sacrifice. Phrases like “it’s part of the job” or "this is what you signed up for" are not only false but have silenced important conversations surrounding safety, trauma, and emotional well-being within healthcare culture.

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The Nightingale Front believes it is time to create a healthier and more supportive culture — one where healthcare professionals are encouraged to speak openly, seek support without shame, establish boundaries, and advocate for both themselves and their patients.

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Strength should not require silent suffering

 

IN DEVELOPMENT

The Nightingale Front is currently in development, and future initiatives may include:

• Advocacy campaigns

• Educational resources

• Burnout support and mentorship

• Workplace violence awareness initiatives

• Community outreach

• Guidance and support resources for healthcare professionals

• Legislative advocacy efforts

• Advocate for healthcare reform that prioritizes staff safety and holds healthcare organizations accountable for maintaining safer working conditions.

• Collaborative conversations surrounding healthcare reform and staff safety among management, staff, law enforcement, and prosecutors. ​

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​FOUNDED BY TAMMY SCOTT

​After nearly two decades as an emergency nurse, Tammy Scott survived a life-threatening workplace assault that permanently changed the course of her life and career. Rather than allowing trauma to define her future, she transformed her experience into advocacy, becoming a voice for healthcare professionals navigating workplace violence, burnout, emotional exhaustion, and systemic failures within healthcare culture.

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Through The Nightingale Front, Tammy hopes to help create meaningful conversations, stronger support systems, and lasting change for those who dedicate their lives to caring for others.

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TOGETHER, WE CAN CREATE CHANGE

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Healthcare professionals deserve to feel safe, supported, valued, and protected.

The conversation is changing.
The culture can change too.