Clinical Community
The best product ideas don't come from boardrooms.
They come from the bedside.
You see what patients need before anyone else does. Join the community of nurses, therapists, and care teams who evaluate new Skil-Care™ products through structured, facility-approved programs, generate real-world clinical evidence, earn funded CE — and co-develop the next generation of products through SCIP.
Free to join · Two-minute form · Facility-approved participation — and no, this isn't a mailing list.
A clinical innovation & evidence-generation platform
Every person who uses a Skil-Care™ product is someone's family member. This community exists to put frontline clinical judgment at the center of how products get built and proven. Here's what membership includes:
Structured product evaluations
Members may be eligible to participate in structured, facility-approved product evaluations, including reduced-cost or supported evaluation access where appropriate and permitted by facility policy. Typical evaluation: 2–4 weeks inside your normal workflow, about 30 minutes of structured feedback.
Facility-approvedFunded, accredited CE
Skil-Care™ funds accredited continuing education through leading CE providers — 10 to 25 contact hours per year based on membership tier, for nurses (ANCC) and therapists (AOTA / APTA), in connection with program education and evaluation participation.
Skil-Care fundedA leadership pathway
Advance from Member to Trial Lead to the Clinical Advisory Board. Real titles, real influence — and they belong on your résumé and LinkedIn.
Career growthCo-author & present
Named co-authorship on the case studies, posters, and white papers your evaluation data creates — with conference presentation support for bona fide scientific contributors, consistent with facility policy.
Publication creditRoyalties via SCIP
Submit product ideas, at your discretion, to SCIP — the Skil-Care Clinical Innovation Partnership. Commercialized co-developments pay royalties to you and your facility under a formal written agreement, based solely on your intellectual property contribution.
Royalty potentialEarly access
See and evaluate new products before launch, with preferred evaluation pricing on new releases where appropriate and permitted by facility policy.
Members onlyVerified digital badges
Earn a shareable, verifiable digital credential for every completed evaluation and Academy course — post it straight to LinkedIn.
Shareable credentialA real community
Quarterly virtual roundtables, a members-only channel, and the annual Clinical Innovation Summit. Peers who lead change at the bedside — and have some fun doing it.
Peer networkGrow from member to clinical advisor
Every member starts with the same benefits. Your contributions unlock leadership roles, bigger platforms, and greater rewards.
Community Member
Open to all licensed clinicians and care-team staff.
- Structured evaluations & early access
- Digital badges for completed evaluations
- Quarterly roundtables & member channel
- SCIP idea submission with royalty potential
- 10 funded CE contact hours / year
Evaluation Lead
Coordinate evaluations across your unit or facility. Invited after two completed evaluations.
- Everything in Member
- Lead multi-unit / multi-facility evaluations
- Named co-authorship on case studies & posters
- Priority matching to new evaluations
- 15 funded CE contact hours / year
Clinical Advisory Board
"Skil-Care Clinical Innovation Fellow"
Shape the product roadmap itself.
- Everything in Evaluation Lead
- Seat on the Clinical Advisory Board (2× / year)
- Conference presentation support for accepted work
- First review of SCIP submissions & prototypes
- Eligible for Clinical Innovator of the Year
- 25 funded CE contact hours / year
Member → Evaluation Lead → Clinical Advisory Board
Active product evaluations
We're actively seeking clinicians and facilities to evaluate these products through structured, facility-approved programs. Select the evaluations that fit your setting when you register.
New Patient Alarm
Testing: alert reliability, alarm-fatigue reduction, ease of setup & cleaning.
Ideal evaluators: hospital falls/safety coordinators, acute care & med-surg nursing teams.
~3 weeks · ~30 min feedback I'm interested →Heel Check™ Boot
Testing: pressure offloading, skin visibility for checks, patient comfort & compliance.
Ideal evaluators: wound care nurses, WOCNs, acute & post-acute teams.
~4 weeks · ~30 min feedback I'm interested →Sensory Items
Testing: engagement, agitation reduction, durability & cleanability.
Ideal evaluators: memory care staff, activities directors, OTs.
~2 weeks · ~20 min feedback I'm interested →See-Through Bed Rail Pads
Testing: visibility for monitoring, entrapment protection, ease of installation.
Ideal evaluators: DONs, safety committees, LTC & hospital teams.
~3 weeks · ~30 min feedback I'm interested →Don't see your area? Join anyway — we add new evaluations regularly and match members as opportunities open.
Five steps. One goal: better products.
From sign-up to shaping the next product generation.
Join
Complete the two-minute form below.
Approve
We confirm facility approval and match you to an evaluation that fits your setting.
Evaluate
Receive supported evaluation access and use the product in real care settings.
Share
Short structured survey — plus outcomes data if your facility opts in.
Shape
Your input drives improvements, published evidence, and new products via SCIP.
How much of my time does this take? A typical evaluation runs 2–4 weeks inside your normal workflow, with about 30 minutes of total structured feedback. Evaluation Leads coordinating facility-wide evaluations invest more — and earn more recognition, CE, and co-authorship for it.
Your data becomes published evidence — with your name on it
When your facility opts in to structured outcomes collection, your evaluation contributes to real clinical evidence. Contributors are credited; lead contributors are co-authors.
Structured outcomes
Validated measures, clean protocols, and data-sharing agreements your facility can trust. De-identified data only, reviewed under our privacy and compliance framework.
Co-authorship
Named credit on the case studies, posters, and publications your evaluation data produces. Build your professional portfolio while you work.
Conference presentation support
Present accepted posters and findings at national conferences — with registration and travel support for bona fide scientific contributors, consistent with facility policy.
Have an idea? That's how our best products start.
Skil-Care was founded by an engineer solving real problems for real people at the bedside. SCIP keeps that tradition alive: members can — at their discretion — submit ideas for new products or enhancements, co-developed with our product, engineering, and regulatory teams.
1 · Bring us a problem
Describe a clinical challenge that needs a product solution. We work with you to define the need, refine a concept, and assess feasibility.
2 · Bring us an innovation
Already have an idea or prototype? Apply to have it evaluated for co-development with Skil-Care™.
3 · Learn the ropes
Free "Innovation & IP 101" workshops: how product development works, what makes an idea commercializable, and how royalties are handled.
How royalties work
If your product is commercialized, you share in its success: royalties of [X–Y]% of net sales for the life of the product, split between you as the clinician-innovator and your facility under a formal, written SCIP co-development agreement. Royalties reflect bona fide intellectual property contribution — they are never tied to purchasing decisions, product advocacy, or evaluation outcomes.
Why DONs & administrators say yes
Your clinicians need your sign-off to participate — so here's what your facility gets out of it.
Supported evaluation access
Structured evaluations with reduced-cost or supported access where appropriate and permitted by your policies — assess products rigorously before any purchasing decision, with no obligation.
Outcomes data you can use
Structured evaluation data supports your QAPI program, survey readiness, and falls / wound / safety committee reporting.
Staff development at no cost
Funded CE, leadership roles, and publication credit — retention and growth benefits you don't have to budget for.
Facility royalty share
When your staff's SCIP co-developments commercialize, your facility shares in royalties under the formal SCIP agreement.
Our commitment to program integrity
The Clinical Community is a clinical innovation and evidence-generation platform — not a rewards program. Participation in evaluations requires facility approval. Program support — evaluation access, CE funding, and presentation support — is provided in connection with legitimate educational and scientific activity, is never contingent on purchasing, standardization, or value-analysis decisions, and is subject to eligibility limits for members with purchasing influence. Members are expected to disclose program participation to their facility consistent with its conflict-of-interest policies.
More than a program — a peer network
Innovation happens in conversation. Members connect year-round, not just during trials — and we like to think we're pretty good company.
Quarterly roundtables
Virtual sessions where members compare trial experiences, preview prototypes, and question our product team directly.
Annual Innovation Summit
The flagship member event: product roadmap previews, member presentations, and the Clinical Innovator of the Year award.
Clinical Innovator of the Year
Annual award for the member whose contribution most improved patient care — includes a funded trip to a national conference.
Refer a colleague
Know a clinician who'd make the products better? Members who bring in a colleague get priority matching to new evaluations.
Learn while you lead
Members get free access to Skil-Care Academy — practical training on falls management, wound care, dementia care, positioning, and safety. Every completed course earns a shareable digital badge, and your funded CE hours come via accredited partner providers.
Trusted at the bedside
We flagged an issue with skin visibility during our heel boot evaluation, and a revised sample was in our hands in under three weeks — that's what happens when a company still manufactures in New York. Nearly 50 years of making these products shows in every detail.
Most vendors hand you a brochure. Skil-Care handed us samples, outcomes data, and a dedicated field team. With everything on-shore, questions got answered in hours, not weeks. The fastest, most thorough value analysis review our committee has completed.
As a small rural facility, we're used to being an afterthought for big manufacturers. Not with Skil-Care. Their team was on-site for our alarm evaluation and took every piece of bedside feedback seriously. Truly collaborative from day one.
Ready to shape what's next?
Takes about two minutes. Our clinical team reviews every submission and gets back to you within two business days — a real person, not an autoresponder.