Background Nursing leadership at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center (Memorial), a 143-bed hospital facility in Jasper Indiana, had budgeted to purchase bedside computers for their ICU when they first learned about The Hercules Patient Repositioner (Hercules) at a nursing leadership conference in late 2013. Hercules made such an impression with the nurse leaders that they had The Morel Company demonstrate it at their next nursing practice council. After careful consideration, the clinical nurses and leadership team jointly decided to use the money budgeted for bedside computers instead on Hercules, becoming the first customer to purchase this innovative product. It wasn’t long after Hercules arrived in the hospital when other areas began to take notice and started switching their

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