America’s Nurses – Empowering a Silent Majority of Clinicians to Transform Healthcare

I never thought I would be so involved in nursing, but I guess I was wrong. Today the passion of my nurse co-workers is aligned with my own, and my dedication to solving healthcare inefficiencies is almost as intense as that phrase sounds. A  few months ago I honestly would not have thought I was going […]

Nurse dissatisfaction is plaguing our ranks. Not as a direct result of the nurse shortage covered in our last post, but instead as a parallel. The noble life of a nurse is one that often comes seemingly unappreciated by management. In fact, in 2013 Becker Hospital Review reported over 25% of nurses stated having general nurse […]

You may or may not have heard about the nurse shortage the US is currently battling. Major metropolitan nurses aren’t feeling the effects yet; however, experts predict that in 10 years the US will be facing a nurse shortage of over 250,000 qualified nurses! As baby boomers cross the ‘senior’ threshold of 65, hospitals will […]

The time: circa 2008. The place: Downtown San Francisco, startup central.. As a young startup with rapid growth, we were taking lessons from the Google playbook—scaled back, of course—and were trying to create a great place for our Team to grind.  Given that we were a health, safety and wellness company, one of the things […]

NurseGrid is an app made for nurses by nurses. We are a group of individuals who have experienced the world of nursing firsthand, and thought to ourselves, “Why can’t it be simpler?” What does it take to quickly upload my shifts to all my electronics, swap shifts with my colleagues, and set reminders on the go […]

We are a team of dedicated nurses who set out to solve some of the major pain points for nurses today. We developed NurseGrid, an app that simplifies all of the problems surrounding nurse scheduling and communication. As we refine our nurse app, part of the process is including features that real nurses want. So […]