Sorry for this bad situation. What I would do in your situation is to try to pre-sell this solution to potential customers (hospitals, healthcare companies, etc

Sorry for this bad situation. What I would do in your situation is to try to pre-sell this solution to potential customers (hospitals, healthcare companies, etc... You definitely have a leverage there as a nurse). Once you get a few commitments (and that will take a lot of "nos" and paper prototyping back-and-forth), then it will be much easier to recruit someone to develop the app for equity-only, or you might even be able to get an hospital to pay for it. There's a great book called "Bootstrapping" by Greg Gianforte, that outlines this process of pre-selling without a product. I highly recommend you to at least take a look at the first chapters.