Healthcare

OR nurses struggle to understand their distinct responsibilities during surgery, leading to role confusion and inefficiency.

Clinicians waste time repeatedly typing similar triage notes and lack a way to automatically capture patient-reported symptoms before the visit.

Users of voice communication systems like Vocera, Spok, and Imprivata experience inefficiency when calling frequent contacts due to the system's directory search process.

A nurse with 3 years of experience cannot understand the function of the water seal chamber in a chest tube drainage system.

Healthcare workers struggle to collect midstream urine samples from patients with limited mobility or who cannot self-collect, leading to messy and inefficient collection attempts.

A mother/baby nurse wants to digitally track counts of moms and babies cared for, and baby gender, without violating HIPAA.

Employees receive off-duty contact via group chat messages asking them to pick up shifts, causing intrusions on days off.

New nurse assistant struggles to track which tasks were completed for which patients and often forgets patient-specific needs or requests.

Nurses must click an 'accept' button on screen instead of hitting Enter after counting narcotics, slowing workflow.

Nurses are annoyed by patients choosing IV placement because it undermines their clinical judgment and efficiency.

Nurses struggle to dispose of liquid medication waste from medication cups without making a mess or touching contaminated cups.

A scrub nurse or RN with high myopia (-7.5) is concerned that poor eyesight will prevent them from handling tiny vascular needles with finesse during surgical scrubbing.

A prenursing student failed to save a recorded patient blood pressure and did not speak up, risking data inaccuracy due to lack of a system to confirm or alert for unsaved data.

Nurses suffer from damaged nails and difficulty manually opening blister pill packages, lacking a convenient, multi-type pill package opener.

Lack of centralized, dedicated study resources and books for the CV-BC certification exam.