About Matt Harless

Books and Long-Form Writing

Books and Long-Form Writing

Books and Long-Form Writing

Author, How Healthcare Dies: and How Hope Brings It Back to Life — a book-length treatment of moral injury as systemic wound

Author, Transition to Care: A Guide for New Nurses — the field guide, with the language for moral injury most orientations skip

Writer, weekly essays on moral injury, nursing, and hope-based reform at Bedside Policy Voice on Substack and on LinkedIn

Press and Media

Books and Long-Form Writing

Books and Long-Form Writing

Featured, Daily Mail investigation into ED violence and workforce exit, February 2026

Guest, Nurse Rosa's INsights podcast — "Nurses Building a Business of Hope," with Ashley Chancellor, June 2026

Guest, Dare to Do Nursing Differently podcast with Teresa Sanderson — December 2024

Guest, The Green Nurse podcast with Emily Knife, RN, MSN

Guest, Virtual Nurses Station — "Nurses Deserve Freedom: Let's Break the System & Build the Future"

Guest expert, Mirrors, Signal, Blind Spot with Moorea Maguire — nurse retention and moral injury interview

Named expert, Nurses Feed Their Young — "The Voice of the Bedside"

Speaking

Organizations and platforms

Organizations and platforms

Keynote speaker, 2025 Student Nurse Political Action Day — Bank of Springfield Convention Center, Illinois State Capitol program, nearly 900 nursing students in attendance

Commencement speaker, Methodist College, December 2025

Presenter, Research Day — Lakeview College, Danville, Illinois

Sponsor and exhibitor, Modern Nurse Fest, Winter Park, Florida, 2026

Organizations and platforms

Organizations and platforms

Organizations and platforms

Co-founder, The Business of Hope with Ashley Chancellor — creator of the HOPE Assessment and the Hope-Informed Care framework

Founder, Fountain County Healthcare Coalition — rural-health organizing in Indiana