ONE YEAR LATERMary Beth Dwyer, MS, RN, FNP-BC, PCCN

presented by Anne Dunnington, RN, MSN

November 14, 2014

Making in nursing isn’t new…

MakerNurse Background

• Study based out of MIT’s Little Devices Lab

• Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• Goal: confirm with data that nurses are making

– Formal documentation

– What are nurses making?

– What supplies are nurses using?

– How are nurses sharing information?

– How are nurses receiving recognition?

MakerNurse Background cont.

• Total of five expedition sites across the country

– Maimonides Medical Center of Brooklyn, NY

– Driscoll Children’s Hospital of Corpus Christi, TX

– Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital of Richmond, VA

– The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, TX

– South Shore Hospital of South Weymouth, MA

What we’ve been up to• October 2013: Anna Young of the Little Devices Lab at MIT

presents MakerNurse at HVI

• March 2014: MIT approaches SMH to participate as a MakerNurse expedition site

• April 2014: SMH begins IRB approval process

• June 2014: MIT Researchers at SMH for MakerNurse kick-off

• September 2014: SMH receives IRB approval; 4 weeks of data collection at SMH begins

• October 2014: Preliminary report from MakerNurse researchers submitted to RWJF

• November 2014: Mary Beth Dwyer of SMH Critical Care Division to represent MakerNurse at Leadership and Legacy: The Future Is Now, hosted by the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action in Phoenix, Arizona

What we discovered at SMH

• Kits already in used for rapid management of emergency situations

• Modifications to existing equipment to better meet patient needs

• Ideas to improve patient care

Sepsis cart created by the Adult ED

Critical Care Transport:Kits, kits, and more kits!

Urinal for Male Patients with Retracted Genitalia

Idea to promote toileting privacy and independence

Megan Fisher, RN, BSN of CVSU will be working with students and researchers at MIT to prototype a bed alarm modification to allow for increased privacy and independence when toileting while still preventing patient falls.

National findings

• Nurses are very good at describing what they have made

• Nurses struggle with defining what materials they need to bring solutions/ideas into fruition– Illiteracy in technology and prototyping

– Ideas vs. opportunities not that people steal nurses’ ideas; instead they take advantage of the opportunities they identify

• Formal report is forthcoming

MakerNurse in the future• Moving beyond data collection into designing

resources, policies, and tools to support nurses in making with the ultimate goal of decreased cost and improved patient outcomes

– Supply nurses with prototyping supplies

– Assist nurses in prototyping

– Establish approach to minimally viable clinical studies to move prototypes into patient care

Thank you to all whose work made this study possible at SMH

• Dr. Marc Katz• Dr. Francine Barr• Jerry Bliley• Terri Bliley• Anne Dunnington• Becky Eades• Megan Fisher• Jeannette Godfrey• Mark Leep

• Faith Miller• Teresa Miller• Jennifer Goins and the

Bon Secours Richmond Foundation

For more information about MakerNurse…

• Visit http://makernurse.org/ or our internal MakerNurse SharePoint site on IRIS

• Contact Mary Beth Dwyer at Mary_Dwyer@bshshi.org or 804-287-7286