Flip the Script. Change the Narrative.
You have the credentials, the education, the experience, and the expertise. Now turn what you know into intellectual property you own.
Scrubs & Scripts helps nurses transform their knowledge, stories, and ideas into books, educational products, and platforms that educate, earn income, and expand their impact.
You spend your career caring, teaching, leading, solving problems, and building expertise. We help you turn what you've learned along the way into something you own.
You have frameworks, patient education, training, clinical knowledge, or resources worth sharing beyond your workplace.
You have a story, idea, or message that belongs on the shelf.
You've developed a methodology, specialized knowledge, a signature approach, or perspective that can establish your authority.
You want to turn your knowledge into products, IP, and additional opportunities beyond your primary role.
You've accumulated lessons, systems, and experiences that can influence the next generation of nurses.
RNs, LPNs/LVNs, APRNs, CNAs, nurse educators, nurse leaders, faculty, entrepreneurs, and nursing professionals across specialties are welcome.
Your years in nursing have given you stories, systems, solutions, frameworks, lessons, and lived experience. We help you determine the right format to turn what you know into intellectual property you can own, share, teach from, and build upon.
Turn your expertise, experience, framework, or professional perspective into a book that establishes what you know and what you want to be known for.
Transform your frameworks, teaching, and processes into practical resources readers can use and apply.
Create an interactive publishing experience that helps your audience reflect, plan, track, or grow.
Bring healthcare, career, education, and other meaningful topics to younger readers through engaging, age-appropriate publishing.
Turn learning, conversation, reflection, or professional development into an interactive experience.
Have an idea that doesn't fit neatly on the shelf? Select specialty projects — including curricula, educational tools, activity products, and other intellectual-property formats — may be developed based on scope.
Real published projects — from a nurse who has walked every step she teaches. Because it's easier to trust a strategist who has done it herself.
Exploring Nursing Careers from A to Z
An inspiring alphabet picture book that lets the next generation see themselves in the many faces of nursing. Colorful illustrations of diverse nurses, 26 real careers explored from Advanced Practice Registered Nurse to Zoonotic Nurse, and a discussion page that turns story time into career conversation.
Written during the pandemic to expose children to the many fields of nursing and to inspire Black children to pursue the profession — closing the diversity gap in healthcare, one little reader at a time. Available in English and Spanish, plus a companion Coloring & Activity Book.
A Coloring Book of Humor, Inspiration & Nurse Woes
The gift every nurse deserves — inspirational quotes, hilariously relatable phrases, and beautiful designs to color after a long shift. Because laughter really is the best medicine, and self-care shouldn't wait until you're already burned out.
“Three words most people want to hear: I love you. Three words nurses want to hear: Alert, Oriented, and Ambulatory.” — from the pages
I'm Dr. Shay.
I'm a dual-certified Nurse Practitioner, published author, publishing strategist, and founder of Scrubs & Scripts™.
But before I ever became a nurse, I was a writer.
My love for writing started in the second grade with short stories and continued with poetry in middle school. When I became a nurse, writing followed me into healthcare. While earning my MSN degree, I started a women's health blog — taking what I was learning and translating it into information women could actually understand and use.
I didn't know it then, but I was already doing the work that would eventually become the foundation of Scrubs & Scripts™: turning clinical knowledge into something that could educate, empower, and reach people beyond the exam room.
Years later, I published What Type of Nurse Can I Be? Exploring Nursing Careers from A to Z, a children's book created to introduce children to the possibilities within nursing while increasing representation in children's literature.
Then I founded Muriel's House, a publishing company created to help aspiring authors turn their ideas into published books. We worked with professionals across industries, but I kept finding myself especially drawn to nurses. I understood their ideas because I understood their work.
And I began noticing something.
Nurses aren't short on ideas. We're sitting on them.
They're in the patient education handouts we created because the existing ones weren't good enough. The framework we developed to solve a recurring problem. The presentation everyone keeps asking us to share. The training we've taught a hundred times. The journal concept scribbled in our Notes app. The children's book we've been thinking about for three years.
Those aren't just ideas.
They're intellectual property waiting to be developed.
And too many nurses are waiting for someone else to tell them they're qualified to create it.
We spend our careers earning credentials, completing competencies, obtaining approvals, following protocols, and checking boxes. That structure serves an important purpose in clinical practice — but your creativity doesn't require a permission slip.
You don't need another certification before you can write the book.
You don't need another degree before you can teach what you've learned.
And you don't need someone else's title before you can build something with your own name on it.
That's why I created Scrubs & Scripts™ — a publishing company built by a nurse, for nurses.
We help nursing professionals turn their expertise, experiences, and ideas into books, workbooks, journals, card decks, educational resources, and other intellectual property that can educate others, expand their impact, create opportunities, and generate income.
You've already earned the expertise.
Now give yourself permission to do something with it.
Your work shouldn't scream DIY project. We deliver clinician-caliber design that holds its own next to any traditionally published title.
You keep 100% of your royalties, publishing rights, and final files. We provide the expertise and support to bring your project to life without taking ownership of what you've created.
You're not navigating publishing with someone who has never walked in scrubs or published. You'll receive strategic guidance from a nurse who understands how to help you clarify your idea, develop your project, navigate publishing, and turn what you know into something you own.
Whether you're ready to publish your first project, turn your expertise into additional income, or build a larger body of work, there's a path for where you are now and where you're ready to go next.
Turn what you know into something you can hold.
For nurses ready to turn their expertise, experience, story, framework, or creative idea into professionally published intellectual property.
Perfect for you if you have something worth creating and want professional support turning it into a polished, published product.
Publish it. Position it. Put it to work.
Everything in Publish plus a focused positioning strategy to help your intellectual property support your professional, visibility, impact, and revenue goals.
Perfect for you if you want to publish a professional project and have a clear strategy for using it to build authority, visibility, and revenue.
Build beyond the book.
Our premium intellectual-property development and publishing experience for nurses ready to organize their expertise into an interconnected ecosystem.
Perfect for you if you have multiple ideas — or one powerful idea with potential to become multiple products — and are ready to build an intentional body of intellectual property.
Not sure which plan fits your idea?
Find My Publishing PlanHalf of the project investment is due before work begins.
The remaining balance is due before you receive your completed final manuscript or publishing files.
The Weekend Accelerator
Sometimes you don't need another long program. You need focused time, expert guidance, and a deadline. Propel is an intensive live or virtual weekend experience for nurses ready to make concentrated progress on their publishing and intellectual-property goals.
Clarify your idea. Strengthen your strategy. Make decisions. Build your plan. And leave knowing exactly what comes next.
Scrubs & Scripts™ partners with nursing schools, healthcare organizations, professional associations, and mission-driven teams on select custom publishing and educational projects.
From curricula and workbooks to patient education, training resources, and specialty publishing projects, we'll develop a scope based on your organization's audience, objectives, and needs.
Before Scrubs & Scripts™ became exclusively focused on nursing professionals, Dr. Shay worked with authors and experts across industries through Muriel's House. One client collaboration grew beyond a single book into a collection of publishing products designed to reach young readers at different ages, stages, and learning styles.
Storytelling + early learning
Interactive companion product
Expanded storytelling for older readers
Guided learning + application
Hands-on educational tool · English + Spanish
This client's work expanded across multiple formats: from a children's book and activity book to a young adult chapter book, teen business-planning journal, and bilingual counting flash cards.
Together, the projects demonstrate what becomes possible when you stop thinking about publishing as a series of individual products and start thinking about how your ideas can become a connected intellectual-property ecosystem.
This is the thinking behind Prosper.
Shift the Narrative, our Prosper Publishing Plan, helps nurses identify the expertise at the center of their work, map the products that can grow from it, and begin building that ecosystem with two strategically selected publishing projects.
Explore Shift the NarrativeSelected publishing work completed through Muriel's House.
Answer 7 quick questions and discover the Publishing Plan designed for exactly where you are now — Publish, Profit, or Prosper. No email required to see your result.
1 Professionally Published Project
We'll help you clarify your concept, develop your project, and navigate the publishing process from idea to finished product.
What could your expertise become?
Tell Dr. Shay about something you know, teach, created, experienced, or developed during your nursing career. We'll help you explore the intellectual property that may be hiding inside what you already know.
Welcome. I'm here to help you see the intellectual property hiding inside your nursing expertise.
Tell me about something you know, teach, created, experienced, or repeatedly help others with. Share as much or as little as you want — a framework, a process, a story, a resource, a lesson learned over years of practice.
Try something like: “I've been a labor & delivery nurse for 12 years and developed a way of teaching nurses how to support families during loss.”
The 60-Second SCRIPT™ Assessment identifies where you are and what's standing between your expertise and your next opportunity.
Discover whether your next move is to Publish, Profit, or Prosper — along with the Scrubs & Scripts™ support we recommend.
Choose your Scrubs & Scripts™ service and let's turn your expertise into something you own.
Find the Publishing Plan designed for where you are now — Publish, Profit, or Prosper.
Take the SCRIPT™ AssessmentPublishing insights, author-life realities, and lessons from the shelf — written for clinicians building something bigger than a byline.
The frameworks, tools, systems, and lessons you've developed throughout your nursing career may have value far beyond a social post or workplace presentation. Here's how to begin recognizing — and developing — the intellectual property hiding in what you already know.
The real timeline, the real system, and the real proof that your workload isn't the reason you haven't finished your book yet.
Not every idea needs to be a 200-page book. Here are the smaller, faster, higher-margin publishing projects clinicians overlook.
Book your complimentary Script Strategy Session. Whether you're sitting on an idea or unsure where to start, we'll explore your goals, discuss your publishing potential, and map out your next best step.
Book Your Script Strategy Session