Our operation officially launched in 2020, but the idea sparked much earlier. We were founded by Shannon McPeek, a neonatal ICU nurse. At the start of her career, Shannon deeply suffered from work-related anxiety. It was spirit-crushing, affecting both her personality and health. She felt isolated and didn’t think anyone else could understand her struggles, but this couldn’t have been further from the truth. Many of her colleagues and friends, she learned, were dealing with similar mental health issues. This realization motivated her to kick-start our non-profit community to help the nursing profession battle work-related stress, anxiety and depression together.
Today, we’re a community of more than two thousand nurses across the country—but we’re continuing to grow! Watch the video to learn more.
Our online community is a place where nurses can decompress and engage with one another to practice stress-relief and talk work-related issues.
We’ve created a safe, secure space—all members of OHN are verified nurses.
Our online community is available to all nurses free of charge, regardless of your tenure, level or specialty.
We provide you with the tools to personalize your OHN experience. Just create your profile and then choose from our list of resources based on your interests.
Operation Happy Nurse is a grassroots movement made up of those who give themselves every day to care for you and your loved ones. Help us care for these lifesavers, caregivers, and badass humans in return. Your donation will go to developing content and providing personalized support and a stress-free user experience for each and every nurse. What you see today is just a starting point—we need YOU to help us grow.
Your donation will help make this support community a reality. In order to make Operation Happy Nurse a personalized and successful product, we need support to help develop content for our users.
Your donation also helps support development and housing of this website, register of our trademark, and develop a personalized experience. The website you see today is just a starting point! We plan to expand it to include personalized content and user experiences for each nurse.
Thank you so much to everyone who showed up, donated, and helped us raise awareness around mental health at this year’s Operation Lemon-Aid Gala — we couldn’t have done it without you!
A special shoutout to our inspiring honorees: Amber Glenn, Christine Martin, Lexi Hensler, and Christa Rymal!
A huge thank you to Maybelline New York and all of our incredible sponsors for supporting our event and helping make it all possible!
Absolutely nothing! We want to provide a free, stress-relief haven where you can be surrounded by peers going through similar journeys.
We don’t want to spoil the fun, but as part of the OHN community, YOU get to personalize your stress relief profile using our many resources. Resources include fitness and yoga videos, guided meditation, weekly recipes from our own Chef Jen, nutritional blog posts from our amazing OHN Dietitians, and much more. Sign up now to have access to the stress relief haven in its entirety!
All contributions go toward developing and serving the Operation Happy Nurse community. This includes housing the website, developing content, providing the best stress-relief resources, as well as community outreach to nurses.
Email our team at [email protected] if you’d like to volunteer to help the cause. Anyone and everyone’s support is welcome (and encouraged!) to address this problem that plagues the nursing community.
If you have other questions not addressed by our FAQs, please email our team at [email protected], and we will respond to you as quickly as possible!
