Resource optimization and health service quality are key desired outcomes under USAID's Health System Strengthening Vision 2030. In a thoughtful and engaging conversation, LHSS Project Senior Technical Advisor for Human Resources for Health Kate Greene and LHSS Kyrgyz Republic Country Director Cholpon Asambaeva  explore how a new approach to nursing -- called the Universal Nurse Model -- is achieving both of these outcomes in the Kyrgyz Republic.