What happens in the hospital stays in the hospital. Wait, that’s not right. But these days you’re likely to find more than a few similarities between a visit to the Vegas strip and a stay in a med-surg unit. According to a recent article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal,[1] hospitality has become the name of […]

It became a common and welcome sight: patient “Carl” tooling up and down the hallway with his IVEA. Six or eight times a day the middle-aged, Texas hospital patient would ambulate on his own, his health steadily improving until, as his nurses described it, he walked himself out of the hospital. And in this particular […]

Recently we had occasion to pull out several early prototypes of the IVEA and line them up side by side. It was amazing to see the various iterations of the product and the incremental changes that, over the course of several years, led us to the equipment hospitals are using today. Throughout the design process […]

We know. You want a bunch of IVEAs at your hospital so you can make your patients happier, your job easier, and your ambulation rates what they ought to be. But the list of competing priorities is long, and time is short. That’s why we’ve just done a complete overhaul of our website, making it […]

In a recent conversation with a prominent nurse leader, the topic of vital behavior came up. If you’re not familiar with the term, a vital behavior is the smallest action you can take to bring about a desired result – one little change that can create a hugely positive outcome. In this case, the vital […]

Here’s an eye-opening statistic: “According to a 2009 estimate, hospital patients spend more than 95% of their time in bed.” That’s from a study cited in a recent opinion piece in JAMA Internal Medicine,[1]which suggests that the increased focus on fall prevention in recent years has done little to reduce the incidence of falls with […]

We came across an interesting study recently titled “How Nurses Decide to Ambulate Hospitalized Older Adults: Development of a Conceptual Model.” Conducted in 2011 by Barbara Doherty-King, PhD, RN, and Barbara Bowers, PhD., FAAN, RN and published in The Gerontologist, it indicated that nurses mobilize their patients for three worthy reasons: To prevent complications To […]

We came across an interesting study recently titled “How Nurses Decide to Ambulate Hospitalized Older Adults: Development of a Conceptual Model.” Conducted in 2011 by Barbara Doherty-King, PhD, RN, and Barbara Bowers, PhD., FAAN, RN and published in The Gerontologist, it indicated that nurses mobilize their patients for three worthy reasons: To prevent complications To […]

Not long ago we visited Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami to train their pediatric nurses on the use of the IVEA. While we were there, we sat down with Clinical Nursing Director Deborah Hill-Rodriguez to talk about her decision to purchase a dozen IVEAs for use in multiple hospital departments. The first thing we wanted […]

“The U.S. has been dealing with a nursing deficit of varying degrees for decade, but today… this shortage is on the cusp of becoming a crisis, one with worrying implications for patients and health-care providers alike.”  “The U.S. Is On the Verge of a Major Nursing Shortage,” The Atlantic, Feb. 2016  As a company that […]