“Our team has learned a lot from how the military leverages different types of light in the field, and we’re still discovering new benefits to using specific lights over a typical flashlight,” said Kathleen. The current product is designed to be easy to clean, lightweight, magnetic, battery powered and hands free, which can help with preventing infection. The device provides a light that is intended to be bright enough for a nurse to see veins, bodily fluids or medication instructions, but dim enough to not disturb a patient’s sleep. Their current product, Lumi Light, is a device that can be hung from nurse lanyards or a clinician’s scrubs. After analyzing products already on the market and narrowing down what they wanted their solution to include, the team manufactured a unique light that incorporates the best elements of existing lights to create an innovative way to improve patient care during the night shift.
Lindsey Bloom, BSN, RN, CCRN, SCRN, Chief Research Officer and ICU Clinical Practice Specialist for Advenist Health Corporation in Roseville, California.Īfter taking first place the Nurse Hackathon, the team immediately began planning how they could turn their idea into a product and their team into a start-up. 
Kathleen Dumas, BSN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer and registered nurse for Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and. Jennifferre Mancillas, BSN, RN, RNC-NIC, Chief Operating Officer, Johnson & Johnson Nurse Innovation Fellow and critical care registered nurse at Valley Children's Healthcare in Madera, California. Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, Chief Executive Officer BSN/PhD student through the Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania. Today, four nurses from the original Nightvision Care team have continued to work to bring this innovative, by nurses for nurses product to market, driven by their mission to create safer and more comfortable conditions for both patients and night shift nurses: When nurses come together to solve healthcare’s greatest challenges, magic truly happens!” We were inspired by insights from the military and the idea of a light-based solution that could help support night shift nurses. “Our team consisted of nine nurses of diverse experiences, including night shift nurses, healthcare administrators, researchers and an army nurse. “We didn’t know each other before the Nurse Hackathon, but we ended up meshing extremely well,” said Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, Hillman Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. After a weekend of networking and collaboration alongside 19 other impressive nurse teams, the Nightvision Care team was awarded first place after pitching their solution before a panel of judges, who were impressed by both the simplicity of their design and its potential impact on the night shift. According to the team, the innovative concept could also help improve health outcomes by preventing mistakes that might occur in darkness, such as reading orders incorrectly or errors in administering medication. 
Throughout the event, the team ideated on a light-based solution that could allow night shift nurses – about 30% of the nursing workforce – and additional frontline healthcare workers to provide safe and effective care without turning on the lights in a patient’s room. However, most people don’t realize that during a single night shift, nurses may turn on their patient's room light an average of 9 times, which could disrupt a patient’s sleep while they’re getting much-needed rest and potentially worsening their health and wellbeing.Īt the SONSIEL Nurse Hackathon in November 2019, an innovative team of nurses called “Nightvision Care” came together to solve this problem. Night shift nurses play vital and often unsung roles in monitoring patients and delivering care while everyone else is asleep. These are all the ways night shift nurses have traditionally navigated delivering patient care in the dark.
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