In the spring of 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 crisis in Madrid, patients were tragically dying waiting for available ventilators. Juan Angel Muñoz López, RN, a nursing supervisor in Madrid, worked with a team that modified a CPAP machine to help COVID patients requiring oxygen. Working quickly, his team…
Ana McConnell, RN, CCRN, is a critical care nurse in Des Moines, Iowa. Working in the ICU, she takes care of patients young and old, and often has to think on her feet to solve problems and engineer creative solutions in a pinch. Ana is a critical care nurse, a…
Victor Ty, RN, BSN, left a two-decade career in fashion design to pursue a nursing career in New York. Since, he has combined his love of textiles, design, and nursing to create life-changing solutions for the patients he works with every day. Victor is a designer, a master LEGO builder,…
A peace dividend of the war against COVID-19 has undoubtedly been mainstreaming the notion of a MakerNurse in every hospital around the world that’s at war with the virus. While history brought us to this moment, the nurses rising to the challenge didn’t spontaneously become tinkerers. At MakerHealth, it is…