Tag: nursing
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From Nerves to Narrative: Learning the Art of the Pitch
Back in Motion: Growth, Goals, and New Chapters Hi friends — it’s been a while since my last post, and I’m excited to share what’s been happening behind the scenes. Over the past few months, I had the opportunity to present one of my professional projects to hospital leadership — an experience that was both…
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Nursing-led Innovations: How to Drive Ideas from Bedside to Organization-Wide Adoption 🚀
Thrilled to share the next step in this journey: my nurse-led audit tool has been voted for adoption across my organization. What began as a frontline solution → grew into a patented process → and is now moving into system-wide implementation. This milestone reinforces an important truth: nurse-led innovation isn’t just possible—it’s powerful. When bedside…
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How to File a Patent as a Nurse: Here is How I Filed My First Patent Application
Update: My Patent & Trademark Application Has Been Officially Filed! A couple of posts ago, I walked you through the steps I took to prepare and protect a nurse-led innovation. Today, I’m thrilled to share a big milestone:✅ The patent and trademark applications for my nursing audit process have been officially filed—in collaboration with my…
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To be a Great Nursing Manager, Check This Out.
Ok so can we talk about what makes a great manager? I would like to share my viewpoints based on the managers that I have had personally, as well as some of the one’s I have gotten to know at work. I find there are certain qualities that I really like and serve the team…
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How to Conquer Quarterly Tasks to Crush 2025
My Nurse Innovator Journey I just finished listening to one of Ali Abdaal’s YouTube videos about productivity. I like the way he explains the process of conquering adventures or quests on a quarterly basis vs yearly goals. I agree that with yearly goals, we often wait ‘until tomorrow’ because we have a subconscious perception that…
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How This Nurse Innovator Manifested Game-Changing Results in 2024
I wanted to recap 2024 by listing out what I accomplished in the journey of achieving my nurse innovator goals. To summarize, I created a nursing tool to help improve documentation and patient outcome results in nursing. By the end of 2023, I met with several unit managers and key stakeholders at my organization to…
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The Trademark and Patent Process: My Wildest Breakthrough
I haven’t posted an update in a couple of months. Since I last posted an update about my nursing tool, a couple of new exciting things have happened. I presented my project (tool) at the business office at my academic hospital. I had a power point presentation of 10 slides with strong data reflecting almost…
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How to be Fierce in your Pursuit of Profitable Tactics.
Nursing tool validation with a statistical analysis. Let’s briefly catch up on what has happened in the last month since the previous post. I finally received the statistical analysis report for my nursing tool and the bill was close to $3,600. I know, that is a lot of money to most of us but the…
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How to validate a nursing tool with success
Since I last posted, I was in the process of getting my analytical tool validated with the Biostatistical department at my academic organization. The fee is out of pocket since there is a conflict of interest with it being covered by the hospital given that I own half of it. I received my analysis report…
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How to validate a nursing tool. It’s Simple and Accurate.
Audit tool As mentioned in a previous post, an option to validate the analytical audit tool was through the Biostatistics office at my academic institution. I had my first meeting with the PhD statistician in charge of my audit tool analysis. The meeting was very productive, and I was ecstatic that she was able to…