About Me
Hey, I’m Nathan Stewart. I’m a CVICU nurse educator who’s spent years in the thick of critical care, taking care of patients on ECMO, post open-heart surgery, and everything in between. Over time, I noticed that while we train hard, there’s still a big gap between what we teach and what nurses experience in real time, especially during high-stress moments like codes or rapid hemodynamic changes. That’s what led me to create CVICU Monitor, a web app that lets you run realistic, interactive vital sign simulations straight from your browser. You can change vitals on the fly, simulate things like losing pulses, or show a cardiac index calculation after a nurse shoots a thermo. It’s built to feel like an actual monitor and can be used during mock codes, quick huddles, or bedside education without needing any extra equipment. My goal with this project was to take high fidelity simulation, which is usually expensive and hard to set up, and make it simple and portable. Whether you’re pulling it up on a computer during a shift or projecting it in a classroom, it’s designed to make learning visual, fast, and repeatable. I built CVICU Monitor to help nurses build confidence, recognize patterns quicker, and feel more prepared in critical situations. Because better training doesn’t have to be complicated. It just has to be accessible.