Fellow Nurse Needs Help-And You May Win 75 Bucks!

Nurses

How many of you have  faced this scenario?

You have an ill patient who has to go to OR or Radiology in a hurry.  They have pumps, monitors, and cords plugged in all over the place.

It takes you 5 minutes or more and a hurt back to unplug and arrange the cords.  Then half-way there, the cords fall off the bed, and you have to start all over before you reach your destination.

Loose cords, ready for a fall!

As a Blogger, I never know what will be in my in-box each day.  A few months ago, I got a comment from a nurse in Minnesota who had invented a cord management system.  She has a patent pending on this device, and is working on getting funding for manufacture.

She now needs help from the nursing community-you!  She needs to prove to potential investors that the need exists for this product.

Before I would allow my nurse readers to get involved, I had to check her  out.

I have done so extensively, including her flying to our local airport for a meeting.  She allowed me to take her demo cord management system back to my local hospital.  All the nurses I showed it to were like, “Why didn’t I think of that?”  And, “When can we buy it?”  The local hospital facilities manager, who is a skeptic at best, was enthralled.

Sidney, the nurse inventor,  has asked me to get feedback from my readers on their assessment of need for such a product.

She has written a  short survey for nurses to  fill out, and has sweetened the pot with a $75.00 gift card to be drawn from those who fill out the survey.  Survey can be found at   http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/clinacord

You would have a chance to win a 75 dollar gift card and help out a fellow nurse.  You might also be responsible for making your life easier at work, when this product becomes available.

So please, fill out this survey, and email the survey link to your nurse friends, coworkers, and the materials management folks at your facility.  You will have done a good deed, and maybe will be 75 bucks richer for your trouble.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/clinacord

Don’t put this off, as the survey will be up only another week or so!

Sidney with Cord System on IV Pole, nothing dragging!

Tags: cord management survey, electrical cord in hospital survey, nurse survey

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