{"id":13312,"date":"2012-03-08T16:21:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T21:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13312"},"modified":"2012-03-08T16:21:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T21:21:50","slug":"patent-pending-on-moffitt-center-nursing-invention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13312","title":{"rendered":"Patent Pending On Moffitt Center Nursing Invention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY GWEN HAYES<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sentinel Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Right now its name is \u201cHep-Loc Dry Mitt.\u201d Hopefully, it won\u2019t be long before the invention that <strong>Ms. Gloria Wood<\/strong> found will be in use in hospitals and in stores for purchase.<\/p>\n<p>A Registered Nurse with H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, <strong>Ms. Wood<\/strong> set out to find an easier way that patients can keep an IV site dry.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong>Jarett S. Rieger<\/strong>, Esquire, MBA, Director, Office of Technology Management and Commercialization (OTMC) and Associate General Counsel, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, the invention presented by <strong>Ms. Wood<\/strong> is the first from a nurse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is very significant,\u201d he stated in a telephone interview. \u201cOur office has been in existence since 2003 and we\u2019ve executed 67 licenses and formed 9 companies. There have been 40 new inventions from staff,\u201d he explained. Most of the inventions are cancer related.<\/p>\n<p>The mission of this office is to protect new inventions and commercialize the cancer related discoveries made at Moffitt Cancer Center, <strong>Rieger<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>The Hep-Loc Dry Mitt is a glove of thin plastic that can be placed on the hand\/forearm while a patient is bathing or showering. Or, it can be used by someone who has a hand\/forearm wound.<\/p>\n<p>This invention has been with the U. S. Patent Office since 2009. Currently, <strong>Ms. Wood<\/strong> and the OTMC are working with a medical device company to develop samples to insure that the project is useful.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing that the latex\/vinyl material used in current gloves because it\u2019s too tight and too thick, <strong>Ms. Wood<\/strong> says that was her inspiration to come up with an idea for something better. Working in various hospitals and with outpatients, <strong>Ms. Wood<\/strong> says it\u2019s difficult to keep IV sites dry. \u201cThe arm is sometimes wrapped in plastic, trash bags or plastic bags placed over the hand to keep the site dry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>After talking about her idea to friends, she was encouraged to seek a patent. She has been working on that ever since.<\/p>\n<p>The native of Wadley, Alabama, after high school, <strong>Ms. Wood<\/strong> graduated from Southern Union State Junior College, University of Alabama and Florida State University. She has had several papers published and lectured on a number of other occasions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Wood<\/strong> is a member of the Oncology Nursing Society, New Hope M. B. Church (Health Care Ministry and Gospel Choir) and Faces of Courage Support Group (committee member).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY GWEN HAYES Sentinel Editor Right now its name is \u201cHep-Loc Dry Mitt.\u201d Hopefully, it won\u2019t be long before the invention that Ms. Gloria Wood found will be in use in hospitals and in stores for purchase. A Registered Nurse with H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Ms. Wood set out to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}