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EXERGEN CORPORATION PROVIDES ACCURATE THERMOMETRY TO AMERICA’S NURSING STUDENTS
Offers All Schools of Nursing Professional Temporal Artery Thermometers for Skills Labs and Home Models for Every Nursing Student
WATERTOWN, MA – Exergen Corporation, manufacturer of the only thermometer whose accuracy has been proven in more than 100 peer-reviewed, published clinical studies, and is the only non-invasive medically accurate thermometer available for home use, has announced that it will offer every has announced that it will over every accredited school of nursing in the country one free Exergen Home TemporalScanner for each student in its nursing program. Exergen Corporation, maker of the #1 preferred thermometer by doctors, nurses, and pediatricians, will also give accredited schools a select number of professional TemporalScanner models for use in their hands-on skills labs. There are no requirements or prerequisites. Accredited nursing schools can simply contact the Exergen Nursing School Thermometer Gifting Program to request the number of each type of thermometer to be sent to their school.
According to Francesco Pompei, Ph.D., CEO of Exergen, “Covid created a nightmare in terms of how people’s temperatures are being taken. The unexpected necessity of public screenings enabled a wave of inaccurate, non-contact infrared thermometers (NCITs) to flood the market. Not only was this utterly irresponsible to the millions of people whose fevers were being missed, but to nurses and nursing students who were misled to believe that NCITs are accurate.”
Numerous studies prove that NCITs are inaccurate. In fact, a recent study [1] published by the FDA proves that non-contact thermometers fail to reliably detect fevers and that they fail to be within the accuracy specifications as advertised in manufacturers’ instructions for use and labeling. The study was undertaken because of the NCIT’s high probability for producing false negative readings close to the CDC fever threshold. It also sought to evaluate their adherence to FDA labeling requirements and in both cases, the non-contact thermometers failed.
Exergen SVP Dr. Marybeth Pompei, a former RN, said that Exergen wanted to do something. “We must educate our nursing students that nothing is more important in screening for fever than an accurate thermometer. All nurses need to be able to take an accurate temperature non-invasively, and that starts with having an accurate non-invasive thermometer. We hope every nursing school in the country will contact us.”
For all accredited nursing schools who would like to receive a free Exergen TemporalScanner home model for each of their students, along with several professional models for their skills labs, visit Exergen Nursing School Thermometer Gifting Program.
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