In healthcare, innovation often begins with scientists, problem-solvers, and designers, AKA nurses, who see challenges and envision solutions. In this SEE YOU NOW Insight from Episode 78: Making Spaces (Part I), Nursing Research & Innovation Coordinator Rose Hedges and MakerHealth co-founder and CEO Anna Young share how a chance encounter with the maker movement led to the creation of a hospital makerspace where nurses and patients design solutions together. These projects go beyond fixing problems. They restore independence, dignity, and joy, and show the transformative power of creativity when patients and nurses innovate side-by-side.
There is this culture that kind of started to shift from that’s the way that we do it. And I know we’re going to go through this process to fix it to, Hey, I think we could just fix this. Let’s talk about it and find a solution right now.
Rose Hedges, DNP, RN
Nursing Research & Innovation Coordinator
