Nurse-owned and operated since 1992, Pocket Nurse® offers over 5,000 instructional products from the industry’s most trusted brands, enabling simulation-based learning for a wide range of healthcare education programs.
Located in Ontario, Pocket Nurse Canada ULC provides fast and knowledgeable service for Canadian customers. Managed by Stacey Haywood, our Ontario office is ready to provide custom quotes in Canadian Dollars for Kinetic GPO members.
Featuring products carefully curated by our in-house team of Registered Nurses, Pocket Nurse® serves the classroom and simulation laboratory needs of instructors across many healthcare curricula.
Pocket Nurse® educational products are ideal for disciplines such as nursing education, EMS training, pharmacy tech, physical therapy, surgical technology, various allied healthcare specialties such as medical assistant and phlebotomy, and high school/CTE programs.
Through this Kinetic GPO contract, Canadian public sector members access a comprehensive range of products and services at competitive pricing, without the need for individual RFPs.
Pocket Nurse® provides a wide range of products for simulation-based healthcare education, including but not limited to these product categories:
Preconfigured or custom Kits filled with simulation supplies, for one-per-student use
Includes stethoscopes, BP cuffs, vital signs monitors, thermometers, and other patient assessment tools
An extensive assortment of gloves, gowns, face masks, disinfectants, and more
New and refurbished beds, headwall units, exam tables, carts, blood draw chairs, medication dispensing carts and cabinets and more
Products to help teach catheterization, wound dressing, linen changing, patient transfer, and more
Realistic simulators to suit any budget, offered in a range of fidelities and skin tones
Industry-leading Demo Dose® simulated medications and pharmacy accessories for creating medication management scenarios
Ventilators, suction units, resuscitation devices, tracheostomy supplies, and more
Equipment for pediatric simulations including birthing trainers, infant and child manikins, cribs, bassinets, and more
Highly accurate body representations including skulls, skeletons, torsos, and anatomical models
Common questions about this contract and how to put it to work for your organisation.
Kinetic GPO membership benefits apply to most products in the extensive Pocket Nurse products collection. Contact us for more information.
Throughout our 30+ year history of manufacturing and distributing products for healthcare education, we have continually refined our operations to meet the needs of our diverse customer base. This includes ongoing efforts to improve efficiency, hiring and training knowledgeable and professional sales and customer service teams, and providing the highest-quality instructional products from the industry’s most-trusted manufacturers. In addition, Pocket Nurse is a nurse-owned company, and all products that we offer have been carefully curated by our in-house team of nurse educators.
• Access to Pocket Nurse® comprehensive product offerings and services
• Discounts resulting in the most favorable price plan offered to any Pocket Nurse customer
• Large volume order discounts available
• Flexible payment options such as Net-30 invoicing, purchase orders, and credit cards
Yes, but only for the purpose of simulation-based education, not for diagnosing or treating real patients. Many hospitals operate in-house simulation centers for the continuing education and training of their medical teams, and to facilitate vital practice for a wide range of medical scenarios. Pocket Nurse provides medical equipment, supplies, simulation tools, and Demo Dose® simulated medications to those facilities.
Official contract files posted in accordance with Canadian public procurement requirements. To view the entire comprehensive suite of goods and/or services offered by the supplier, please contact our team to request this information or to receive a copy of the supplier's response document.
The original Request For Standing Offer documents as issued — solicitation, terms, scope, and awarded pricing schedule.
Official Notice of Award for this RFSO, posted to fulfill public procurement transparency and trade-agreement compliance.
The Renewal document represents the optional extensions offered in the Master Agreement. The extension period will commence at the expiry of the original term of the contract.
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