Project List
A gallery to showcase some of our innovative products and partnerships.
When we say that "We are one part think tank and one part idea lab" it means that we take on real-world projects and deliver viable solutions. Often these solutions are packaged and produced into digital or phyisical items that others that require a simular solution can also implement and deploy. Here are only some of the projects that we have undertaken.
Patient Transport
Simple moments can be profound. Sometimes a simple observation can lead to a signifcant improvement. Meet Rollie Pollie TM. This Pearson Innovation is an invention more than a decade in the making. It began as a doodle to solve a problem in pediatric hospital and evolved into a passion project. Now Rollie pollie is a fully patented device to help make a visit to the children's hospital a little more manageable and kid friendly.
“Y’all. Take time to read this. All my child life friends take note. Anyone who has ever had a child in the hospital knows how much easier this would make getting around in a wagon. Kids love wagons, they’re great normalization tools for a hospitalized child, now their IV pole can tag along without the fuss.” -Sarah Tigner Bethards, Child Life Professional
Collaborative Leadership
The field of leadership has many oppertunities for improvement and innovation. Anncedotal accounts from famous or successful people are packaged as creditable advances toward improving the act of leading. Whenever possbile it is immportant that validated instruments be created and applied to separate best practice from bad advice.
“Interprofessional education and collaboration (IPEC) are complex and vital functions of effective healthcare, yet current instruments continue to rely on measures of self-reported competency, targeting a few select or siloed functions within health care teams.
This validated tool measures the Capacity for Healthcare Interprofessional Collaboration scale (CHIC) to measure interdependent behaviors that make collaboration possible and healthcare teams effective. The CHIC scale demonstrates internal consistency, convergent, discriminant, and predictive validity with good model fit.
In addition to measuring collaborative capacity, mediation analysis demonstrates the predictive validity of the CHIC scale to identify education and training needs in collaborative capacity” (Pearson & North, 2022).
Story Telling
Some of the very best innovations have been new ways to share and tell our stories. Pearson Innovation has developed a comprehensive method to invigorate the true story of the historical figure of Frances DeBra Brown.
Over 150,000 women served in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in World War II. Although the majority of WACs were assigned to duties in the United States, several thousand received overseas assignments. Only 8 percent worked in jobs considered unusual for women such as mechanics, draftsmen, interpreters, and weather observers. Frances Debra Brown was a draftsman at American headquarters in London and Paris, where she worked on classified material.
An Army in Skirts: The World War II Letters of Frances Debra contains the letters that Frances wrote to her family and letters from family and friends to Frances. The letters vividly detail her World War II service.
Hardcover. 274 pages. 2008, Indiana Historical Society Press.