Florida nurse develops medical bandage scissors

 Sharon Zelinko, RN, whoworks at Life Care Center in Winter Haven took it upon herself to create a toolthat would make nurses’ jobs a little easier. 

Sharon has worked as a nurse for more than 50years and the mother of eight children, took on the project of inventingGripsors in 2005 and recently developed the stainless steel medical bandagescissors with fine grooves between the handles that allow nurses to grip itemsin order to twist, insert or extract.

“I always carried a hemostat in my pocketbecause I couldn’t twist IV tubing open,” Zelinko said in a news release. “Myco-workers often asked me for it during the course of my shift because theyexperienced the same problem. I thought, ‘Surely someone could put grooves inthe shaft of my medical bandage scissors so I could grip IV tubes.’ Later Ithought that if no one had come up with the idea in 15 years, maybe I was theperson to do it.”

Although the patent onthe product, known as Gripsors, is pending, Zelinko has begun marketing acrossthe country and has made sales in Florida, California, Nevada, Michigan andIllinois. The response has been overwhelmingly positive. 

“My brother is an engineer and he helped me put my idea on paperin a technical drawing,” Zelinko said in the release. “God has sent people allalong the way to help me along the path to putting an idea to solve a commonproblem into a tool I’m so proud to introduce to the medical community.”

Healthcare professionals in numerous states have already reported phenomenal positiveresults using these revolutionary scissors. Congratulations Sharon on your Godinspired invention.

Visit her website to read more. http://www.gripsors.com/