Some of the best IR tricks aren't found in textbooks — they're learned at the table. The Exchange gives IR Techs a place to share the practical tips, shortcuts and workflow pearls they've picked up along the way.
Four steps. The hardest part is deciding which tip to send.
Step 01
Share it
Submit an original IR Tech Quick Pro Tip along with a short video demonstrating or explaining your tip.
Step 02
We review it
Eligible submissions are reviewed for usefulness, originality, clarity, relevance, educational value and safety.
Step 03
Become an Exchange Ace
Each month, Scrubbed and Wired selects three winning contributors. Each selected winner is officially named a Scrubbed and Wired Exchange Ace.
Step 04
Get the goods
Each of the three monthly Exchange Aces receives a Scrubbed and Wired swag box, and their Quick Pro Tip may be featured in future Scrubbed and Wired content.
Three winners. Three titles. Three Exchange Aces.
Each month, the Scrubbed and Wired team reviews the submitted Quick Pro Tips and votes to select three winners—one Table Ace, one Wire Whisperer, and one Device Dynamo. Together, these three winners are recognized as that month's official Exchange Aces.
Scrubbed and Wired will determine which category best fits each winning tip. In addition to the opportunity for their submission to become an official Scrubbed and Wired Quick Pro Tip, every Exchange Ace receives a Scrubbed and Wired swag box.
The featured opportunity
Your Quick Pro Tip could join the Scrubbed and Wired training library
Each winning submission may be professionally edited and featured as an official Quick Pro Tip within the Scrubbed and Wired training library. Winning content may also be showcased across the Scrubbed and Wired website and social media platforms, helping valuable IR Tech knowledge reach an even wider professional audience.
Training library feature
Your winning submission may become an official Scrubbed and Wired Quick Pro Tip.
Online visibility
The completed Quick Pro Tip may also be featured on our website and social media platforms.
Contributor recognition
If your submission is used, you will receive credit and may choose to have your name and professional social media handles promoted.
Your contribution will be credited.
When a winning submission is featured, the contributor will receive clear credit for the original tip. Contributors may also choose to have their name and professional social media handle or handles displayed and promoted with the feature, based on the recognition preferences selected on the submission form.
1Table Ace
1Wire Whisperer
1Device Dynamo
One winner in each category, every month.
The three Exchange Ace titles
Table Ace
Wire Whisperer
Device Dynamo
Plus, Every Exchange Ace Receives a Swag Box—Complete With a Custom Die-Cut Sticker Recognizing Their Winning Title
Mouse Pad
Badge Reel SetIncludes one black and one navy badge reel
Bookmark Coupon
About the bookmark coupon
The promotional bookmark coupon is good for one of these two discounts:
$100 off the Premier Path
$50 off the standalone VI Exam Prep program
The discounts are alternatives—the coupon does not provide both discounts on one purchase.
Use your bookmark coupon yourself—or gift it to another IR Tech.
Share what you know. Support another IR Technologist. Your Quick Pro Tip could become part of the Scrubbed and Wired training library.
Got a tip? Send it our way.
Big tip. Tiny tip. Weird little trick that somehow makes every case easier. If it's useful to another IR Tech, we want to hear it.
Show us your Quick Pro Tip
Sometimes it's easier to show than explain.
Every Exchange submission includes a short video demonstrating or explaining the Quick Pro Tip.
Submission requirements
Video is required
Maximum video length: 2 minutes
Maximum file size: 250 MB
One original video file
Permitted video file types are controlled by the Tally submission form
No patients or identifiable patient footage
No protected health information (PHI)
No patient identifiers, medical records or confidential patient information
No patient information visible on monitors, computers or imaging screens
No confidential facility information
Do not submit content prohibited by your employer or facility
You must have the right and authority to create and submit the video
Raw phone video is completely acceptable. Your video does not need to be professionally edited — clear, useful IR Tech education is what matters most.
Before you submit
By submitting an Exchange entry, you will be asked to confirm that:
You are at least 18 years old.
You created the submitted video and have the right and authority to submit it.
Your submission contains no PHI, patient identifiers, medical records, identifiable patient footage or confidential patient information.
You have complied with your employer's or facility's policies regarding photography, video recording, equipment and content creation, and have obtained any permissions required.
Submission does not guarantee selection, publication, Exchange Ace status or a prize.
Scrubbed and Wired content is educational and does not replace facility policy, manufacturer instructions, clinical judgment or physician direction.
Entering your Full Legal Name and submitting the form constitutes your electronic signature and your acceptance of those Rules.
If your tip is selected, you'll be credited according to the attribution preference you choose in the form — including the option of no public attribution by name or social-media handle.
Here for The Exchange?
Stay for the IR training.
Scrubbed and Wired was built to show IR from the technologist's side of the table — real-world equipment preparation, procedural support, workflow and the details IR Techs are expected to know.
