ScrubUp App helps inexperienced perioperative nurses

Perioperative nurse and ScrubApp inventor Marrianne McGhee has been a registered nurse for over 20 years. Marrianne had not been working as a registered nurse for long when she was asked to scrub for an embolectomy — assisting an experienced, and somewhat intimidating, vascular surgeon to remove a blood clot. The procedure did not go according to plan, leaving the surgeon increasingly frustrated and Marianne feeling very ineffective and unhelpful.

If faced with the same situation now, she would have known the potential risks and would have prepped the theatre accordingly, but is concerned about the ongoing pressures put on junior nurses, who continue to be asked to scrub for cases across surgical specialities they’re unfamiliar with.

Which is why she developed mobile app ScrubUp — as a way to support novice nurses.

Read the full article here on Hospital and Healthcare.

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