Sharon Hampton is focusing on patient equity as a nursing leader at Stanford Health Care. Getting to know patients and staff is key, she says. — By Mandy Erickson As a teenager, Sharon Hampton, PhD, a nurse leader at Stanford Health Care, wanted to be a biology teacher. But her mother, who worked at a hospital, said, “No, you’re going to be a nurse.” Hampton’s mother, a Black woman who began her career working in a…