MakerNurse

MakerNurses are the problem solvers and patient advocates who live and work in the heart of our healthcare system.

MakerNurse is collecting stories from inventive nurses across the nation to better understand what drives them to innovate and how best to nurture the creative potential of the American nurse. Sign up for updates and stay tuned for information on how you can get involved and share your story. MakerNurse began in 2013 through a collaboration between Jose Gomez-Marquez and Anna Young of The Little D

evices Lab and Lori Melichar and Jody Struve of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The team from The Little Devices Lab brought years of experience with the Maker Movement and nursing innovation in developing countries. The RWJF team, inspired by over 10 years of working to prepare and empower nurses to lead efforts to improve care, proposed the idea of exploring applications for these findings in America. The tremendous opportunity to explore nursing innovation in America began a whirlwind of conversations between The Little Devices Lab and RWJF which led to MakerNurse: a project which honors the inventive spirit of nurses across America and seeks to bring nurse making to the forefront of health care.

11/08/2022

Thrilled to share the SEE YOU NOW podcast of Shawna Butler RN MBA, Johnson & Johnson Nursing & American Nurses Association featuring our work to spotlight the ingenuity of MakerNurses with creative labs, tools, and community. Thank you to Shawna and Rose Hedges for the conversation! We hope you enjoy the story of our work to support inventive clinicians and their impact on patient care.

https://nursing.jnj.com/see-you-now-podcast/78-making-spaces-part-i

05/09/2022

How are you celebrating Nurses Week 2022 today? 👩🏽‍⚕️👨🏼‍⚕️🧑🏻‍⚕️👨🏾‍⚕️

How about joining us today May 9th at 7pm EST? MakerHealth and DNPs of Color are teaming up to highlight MakerNurse Julian Gallegos, PhD, MBA, FNP-BC, CNL, FAUNA’s current MakerHealth Academy project.

All health care professionals are welcome to register for this live presentation at www.dnpsofcolor.org

Julian has been leading the design and creation of a new health device to help patients with long-term catheters. He will be sharing about his project with fellow DNPs and fellow professionals. Please join us in showcasing Julian’s impact on .

05/07/2022

Happy Nurses Week 2022! Thank you to MakerNurses 👩🏽‍⚕️🧑🏻‍⚕️👨🏾‍⚕️👨🏼‍⚕️around the world for your dedication to the of communities everywhere. We’re celebrating your creativity and all the health technology you’ve built to transform all areas of . 🩺🛠

This month, we’re hosting live events to recognize MakerNurses and sharing the unique stories of who create the things that heal, so stay tuned for our updates!

12/01/2021

An unforgettable moment...🤩

Did you get to see MakerNurse, , at the 2021 ANCC National Magnet Conference in Atlanta?

Rose Hedges, DNP, RN spoke to fellow nurse leaders about how she and others create new health technology from the MakerHealth-powered generate Lab, as she represented Magnet facility, UnityPoint Health-St. Luke's Hospital on Nov. 13.

"Nurses need a safe place to experiment on their ideas to bring them to life." Rose Hedges

Rose and St. Luke's Hospital made that happen.

They installed a MakerHealth Create Lab in 2019. By July 2021, together we trained 285 people from 30 different health professions in prototyping skills and more than 2,600 devices had been made by these clinicians. Recently, 35 percent of projects in their medical Makerspace have been going into use in under a week at St. Luke's!

What's next? If you attended Magnet in person or virtually and would like to connect with Rose and the MakerHealth team, email us at [email protected] to schedule a time that works for you!

09/23/2021

Only 4 Days ‘til this! 🥳

On Monday, we’re hosting an exciting event with . Come to learn about the fundamentals of health making, nursing’s rich history of inventive fabrication, leave ready to help lead the design of tomorrow’s health technology!

DNPs, register today! 📲💻

09/23/2021

MakerHealth Tool Time 🏥🧰
Has it happened to your unit’s team before?

You order an expensive, life-saving device only to find out it just came in a cardboard box 📦with no proper casing.

Swipe left to read about how creative nurse Bev Minear built this impressive C-MAC Light Case to protect their equipment and essentially protect patients! 🙌🏽➡️

09/14/2021

always look for opportunities to expand their skill sets.
And we’re so happy that they’ve chosen MakerHealth to help add health making to that list. ⚙️👩🏻👨🏽‍🦱

On Sept. 27th, we’ll be hosting an interactive webinar for their members, covering fundamentals of health making, nursing’s rich history of inventive fabrication, and how DNPs can lead the design of tomorrow’s health technology.

Don’t miss it! DNPs, register today! 💻📲

09/07/2021

Open sharing, permission and place to create 🤝 Culture of experimentation
Leaders in healthcare innovation are known for having the great ideas and for supporting the great ideas of their peers at all levels.💡 Ideas for new health technology come to life with not only with MakerHealth tools and training, but also with the support and time for health making provided by unit directors and managers.

Healthcare leaders, let’s build up infrastructures of health making by building up the ideas and prototyping literacy of all creative clinicians. 🧰🔁

08/11/2021

Nurses think holistically. They listen to you intently.
They are reliable and focus on caring for you as a person.

Because of all these reasons, nurses are also among the first to recognize how gaps in accessible medical supplies contribute to inequities in healthcare.

Have you read MakerHealth's response to the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 report yet? https://bit.ly/37wn8zx
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08/05/2021

You don't have to be in Tokyo to go for the Gold! 🥇🏆
Right now, with MakerHealth Academy Gold, you are guaranteed to turn that idea you've always had for a health device into a prototype in 6 months. 🧰🦾

Kits like this interactive technology kit are put together by our team based on the materials and tools you need and then are delivered directly to you so you can start health making. 📦📫💡

ENROLLMENT OPEN!

Pictured is RWJF Future of Nursing Scholar (2015 Cohort) Esther Mathurin, PhD, MS, RN, FNP-BC with her interactive technology kit that contains a microcontroller, which makes any surface conductive. With this, you can make adaptive switches for assistive technologies. 🕹

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