Medical Care Pen

[Humongous]

My daughter is a Labor and Delivery nurse and wanted a new pen. Since she is exposed to many yucky things in the course of her work, we decided that a plastic blank would work best as it could easily be sanitized. She picked out a DiamondCast "Festival of Lights" from McKenzie Penworks. This is the first time I've used a DiamondCast blank and they are spectacular, this one was back painted white. Its very hard to show in a photo the sparkle, I tried one inside and one outside in the sun.
The kit is the Berea Medical Care Kit. I picked up a couple of these during their sale, not a Schmidt mechanism but it seems pretty robust and makes the old time "Click". It's styled to look like a syringe and my daughter said they even have the heart wave on the center band correct.

Thanks for looking, comments and critique welcome as always.

 

[derekdd]

Really nice job. Very thoughtful gift.

Yes, DiamondCast blanks are notorious for not being nearly as spectacular in photos are they are in real life.

 

[Woodchipper]

Nice. My daughter in an NP; made one for her a while back. Unique design...wish I had thought of that. Medical people like the click as it is a one-handed operation.
derekdd, thanks for the remark on Diamond Cast blanks.

 

[KenB259]

Penn State just came out with a medical care pen, don't understand why they made it a twist pen.

 

[egnald]

Very cool. The diamond cast blanks are really cool. Nice pen! - Dave

 

[Woodchipper]

Click is easier to operate if holding medicine, etc. Charting is now by computer.

 

[leehljp]

Great looking pen!

Thanks for showing this. I didn't know it existed. I have wanted to make a pen for each of the Cardiac Team that worked with me for 12 weeks.

I will check it out.

 

[Doughboy]

Great job on the pen...Thank you for posting the photos...My wife and granddaughter are RNs so I will make two of these pens...