What nursing "invention" would make you famous?

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With all the news going around about MRSA infections, I got to thinking......if only I could concoct a "curative" lavender scented Vancomycin room spray....

Therefore I ask, what would your most useful nursing device, invention, or concoction be? Hmmmm......Valium "flavored" pixy dust.....attitude adjustment darts (they come in cardiologist strength, surgeon strength, I am the doctor strength and a slew of other effective varieties.:idea:

http://www.google.com/search?q=wireless+vital+signs

Plenty available if you have the money for wireless vital signs. All you need is to add alarms when vitals signs exceed parameters to send message to you.

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Specializes in CNA, Surgical, Pediatrics, SDS, ER.

The Obstetrician who informed the family was there, and told us to grab anyone's arm, and inject it with 1/2cc of the phenobarb.

This should be a standard practice for out of control families!!!! :lol2: J/K I think!:coollook:

For my invention I would like something to keep all of those darn tubes separated. :rolleyes: Like a little pocket clip on the bed side w/ diff sizes to hold the 3 diff IV lines, NG tube, chest tube so they quit getting tangled up all the time. Oh and it could be removed from the bed for amb or BR use and clip onto the pts gown so you don't have to straighten them out every time. :wink2:

We should start a nurse invention company w/ all these ideas we could be rich, rich I tell you! :D

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mandatory booze/drug radars for family members that come to visit the loved one.A mandatory history on them also.How many times have you noticed your res. fine and dandy,until that one family member comes in??How much time have you spent trying to apease the family member,when you could have been doing other task??Some of the family members I have dealt with are more unstable than the res. Im taking care of.The sue happy crazy ones with their paranoia should be legally found as such!:thnkg:

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Specializes in NICU.

An O2 mixer that automatically adjusts itself to keep within the pt's ordered parameters. It seems the babies who are already most likely to "sat chase" are the ones given the narrowest parameters.

And for all you floor nurses...IV machines that beep at the nurses station (with the reason--occlusion, etc.) instead of at pt's bedsides. And if the beeping were too annoying, maybe a small light would work better :).

I'd love to have VS, vent alarms go off somewhere other than by the babies heads (I work in the NICU). And a big screen in each room strategically placed so that you could look one direction and see all the babies monitors at the same time.

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Specializes in NICU.
For my invention I would like something to keep all of those darn tubes separated. :rolleyes: Like a little pocket clip on the bed side w/ diff sizes to hold the 3 diff IV lines, NG tube, chest tube so they quit getting tangled up all the time. Oh and it could be removed from the bed for amb or BR use and clip onto the pts gown so you don't have to straighten them out every time. :wink2:

This one has my vote :D.

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Specializes in OB, HH, ADMIN, IC, ED, QI.
http://www.google.com/search?q=wireless+vital+signs

Plenty available if you have the money for wireless vital signs. All you need is to add alarms when vitals signs exceed parameters to send message to you.

Hopefully those alarms would be sensory to the patient's Nurse, and not "alarm" the patient further. I think we would respond sooner, if we know it's OUR patient requiring immediate help. Too many sounds on a unit can make people disregard them............:coollook:

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Specializes in OB, HH, ADMIN, IC, ED, QI.
mandatory booze/drug radars for family members that come to visit the loved one.A mandatory history on them also.How many times have you noticed your res. fine and dandy,until that one family member comes in??How much time have you spent trying to apease the family member,when you could have been doing other task??Some of the family members I have dealt with are more unstable than the res. Im taking care of.The sue happy crazy ones with their paranoia should be legally found as such!:thnkg:

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That's why Social Workers were invented. If they took those family histories, communicated "hot spots" to the reception desk and the Nurse Manager (sounds like a LTC, since "res." and not "patient" is used), and call security - well informed/trained in those episodes, could call the police, to have a breathalizer/drug test done, and cart the inebriated away...........

since public intoxication is cause for imprisonment, and having one's vehicle stored. If Nurses are used as security, that's a bad work situation to be in.:twocents:

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I am a nurse and I actually did invent & patent something...a teaching tool to help explain how ostomy surgery changes the body. Now I am learning how to market my invention...I miss nursing:(

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