Healthcare

OB triage nurses waste time handling non-pregnancy-related acute illnesses that PCPs inappropriately redirect to OB, creating inefficient triage and patient confusion.

New grad nurse needs a reliable car with 4WD to safely commute to work in snowy conditions, but doesn't know which vehicle model to choose.

An ICU nurse working night shifts struggles to maintain a consistent athletic training regimen due to circadian disruption, poor recovery, and hormonal imbalance, and is seeking structured, evidence-based approaches beyond generic sleep hygiene advice.

Nurses experience discomfort and uncertainty when patients or family members may be filming them without consent during care discussions, but have no clear protocol to address it.

Physical therapy documentation is overly time-consuming, taking up approximately 400 minutes per week.

A nurse experienced a miscommunication with a doctor about the purpose of a medical order (EMLA cream) due to lack of clear indication in the order, leading to incorrect application.

A nursing student is seeking real-world clinical problems to inform a software feature proposal for a nursing informatics assignment.

Physical therapists in outpatient clinics struggle to maximize billing ethically while managing high patient volumes and limited appointment times without double booking.

A nurse is struggling with the new intraoperability between Alaris infusion pumps and Meditech Expanse EHR, finding it problematic and seeking others' experiences.

A healthcare worker needs scrub pants that fit a small waist but have a soft, non-compressive waistband to avoid back pain.

Call bells ring and nurses ignore them, expecting care aides to respond, leaving care aides overwhelmed and patients waiting.

A pharmacist is confused about how nurses account for overfill in IVPB bags when programming IV pumps, leading to potential dosing inaccuracies.

Staff recognition for patient compliments is misattributed when the compliment does not name the specific staff member, causing unrecognized work and missed morale boosts for non-nursing staff.

Clinicians need an affordable handheld dynamometer for objective muscle strength testing to replace subjective manual muscle testing (MMT), but available options are either too expensive (hundreds of dollars) or the wrong type (pull-only only).

Hospital med/surg units struggle to maintain enough nurses trained to administer chemotherapy for non-oncological reasons, with only an every-other-year class and no ongoing competence assurance.