4,000 ftHappy Isles, the valley floor

Jethro Chu

Nursing student who builds software between clinical shifts.

My resume
Begin the climb

5,900 ftVernal and Nevada Falls

What I do

I'm a nursing student who loves to build. Most of what I create comes from things I wish existed in healthcare, research, or the tools people use every day. Some of it is serious, and some of it is just for fun.

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Projects

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NurseJet. Daily clinical briefing for bedside nurses.

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NurseJet

Solo build

A daily clinical briefing for bedside nurses. It distills new nursing research, guideline changes, and safety alerts into short briefs, organized by your specialty from the ED to the NICU, with the exact source citation and a bedside takeaway on every one.

02

Emotion Stock Market Game

Solo build

Everyone says not to trade with your emotions, so I built a game that does the opposite. Your facial expressions drive simulated trades in a chaotic browser market where every smile, panic, and overreaction can move your portfolio.

  • Vanilla JS
  • face-api.js
  • TensorFlow.js
03

Lab Logger

Designed the UX for an AI-powered lab notebook

I helped shape Lab Logger into a tool that turns messy notes, voice entries, files, and PDFs into organized experiment records. My focus was making the product feel simple, trustworthy, and fast enough for researchers to use in the middle of real work.

04

Rate My Hospital Food

Solo build

A review site for hospital cafeteria food. Search a hospital, read real reviews, and leave your own star rating, with the best and worst cafeterias ranked the way a food app would.

Currently building

Live · publishing daily

NurseJet

Improving: Sharper specialty filtering and faster-to-act briefs.

It only works if a nurse can trust it and use it on shift.

Live · ongoing UX

Lab Logger

Improving: The path from raw capture to a trustworthy AI summary.

Documentation has to feel lighter than the experiment it records.

In progress

Jethro OS (this site)

Improving: The Ask-Jethro assistant and per-project deep dives.

People should be able to ask what I build instead of digging for it.

Case study explorer

Short, honest write-ups. No invented metrics. Where something is a prototype or still in progress, it says so.

NurseJet

Live · 2025

Daily clinical briefing for nurses

Problem
Important clinical updates are spread across journals, guidelines, and alerts, and bedside nurses have no time to chase them.
Insight
Nurses do not need more to read. They need the one thing that changed, why it matters at the bedside, and a source they can trust.
What I built
A daily briefing product, solo: specialty-specific briefs, a citation on every item, and a takeaway written for the bedside, not for a journal.
State
Live at nursejet.org, with new editions published daily.
What I'd do next
Sharper specialty filtering and making each brief even faster to act on during a shift.
Open nursejet.org

I build from the part that feels harder than it should.

Most of my ideas start the same way: I notice a workflow that feels slower, messier, or more annoying than it needs to be. Then I try to turn that friction into something usable: a clinical briefing tool, a lab notebook, a review app, or even a weird browser experiment.

  1. 01

    Notice the friction

    Clinical work, research, and everyday tools all have moments where people lose time fighting the system. I pay attention to those moments because they usually point to something worth building.

  2. 02

    Prototype fast

    I use AI tools, design judgment, and modern web stacks to move from rough idea to working product quickly. The goal is not to make a perfect first version. It is to make something real enough to test.

  3. 03

    Make it useful

    The projects I care about most are the ones that remove friction instead of adding more software to manage. Lab Logger, NurseJet, and my other builds all come from that same instinct.

Jethro Chu on the granite summit of Half Dome at golden hour, in a climbing harness and a white costume, arms crossed and smiling.

8,839 ftHalf Dome summit

About me

I'm a BSN nursing student.

I've done clinical rotations across several hospital systems. On the side I build software like Lab Logger, and I climb granite in the Sierra.

This is the top of Half Dome, 8,839 feet up.