Giving a voice to creative nurses & nurse innovators

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Hello everyone,

I am currently working for the Little Devices Lab at MIT, in Cambridge Massachusetts, with the "MakerNurse" initiative team.

Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation, MakerNurse was inspired by our research in medical technology design in Central America, where nurses are sometimes drawn to improvisation out of necessity in their practice.

Further researches made us realize that there are creative, resourceful nurses across the country too, who go unsupported and unrecognized for their work solving diverse problems pertaining to patient care. We want to support them and know what helps you move!

The goals of the project are to give to "nurse innovators" a voice by building a community in which nurses can share their ideas and be recognized for their skills and to design custom toolkits (MEDIKits) and prototyping spaces to support nurse making.

Your participation in this survey would really help us forward your ideas. We want to work together to design tools and protocols to support you.

By filling this survey, and sharing your experiences and ideas with us, you will enable us to generate policies, strategies and tools that will benefit the community as a whole, and help us to foster creativity among nurses.

We will be collecting surveys until the end of June and publish strategies, best practices tips, tools and things the nurse community could use and benefit from.

All answers will remain anonymous unless otherwise specified.

Here's the link to the survey. http://makernurse.org/tell-us-your-makernurse-story/

Thank you for your time!

MakerNurse

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Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.

Hello and welcome to allnurses. I wish you the best of luck with your project. I hope you are able to locate some nurse innovators.

tnbutterfly

Community Manager

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

I am so glad you have joined us here !!!!!! Great project!

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

I'll be anxious to see the results....thanks for sharing with us.

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Home care nurses are very creative in meeting patient care needs.

From hanging overnight tube feeding bag from coat hanger on nail in the wall as insurance would not pay for enteral pump to using 4in ostomy bag on former chest tube site draining heavy purulent fluid due to Lung Cancer -- only size that would stay on 2-3 days with skin cement to disperse weight of fluid, we've come up with many crafty solutions to help our patients. Adapting items for one use to meet another is quite common.

Hope our home care guru nurses respond to this survey.

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

I completed the survey and submitted four innovations I've come up with or seen in my practice. I want to add that this is not just for tech devices, but for adaptations you may have made in any type of practice setting.

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Awesome initiative!

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Calling all creative nurses --check out this survey and project!

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Hey it's Team MakerNurse again!

First, we would like to thank all of you for participating in our survey. It definitely helped us a lot! We just wanted to share the news that your stories have made it all the way to the White House! We are learning more and more everyday and we'd like to continue to hear from you!

Please share your story with us at: Tell Us Your Story | MakerNurse and here is the story of one of the MakerNurses who responded to our survey, Roxana Reyna, who came with us at the White House! MakerNurse | A Community of Creative Nurses from Across America

Thank you for your help!

Dina

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So cool! Thank you for this interesting and innovative project.

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