Health Care Innovation: Embracing the Nurse-Engineer Partnership.

Am J Nurs

Karen K. Giuliano is an associate professor at the Institute for Applied Life Sciences and the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and codirector of the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation; she has a background in critical care and more than 25 years of global experience in the development of new medical products. Kelly Landsman is a biomedical engineer specializing in patient care devices, has her own health care engineering consulting firm, and works as a staff nurse on a medical cardiac unit in Minneapolis, MN. Contact author: Karen K. Giuliano, . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise. A podcast with the authors is available at www.ajnonline.com .

Published: March 2022

This article introduces a series on nurse innovators, focusing whenever possible on nurse-engineer partnerships and outlining working, replicable models of collaboration between the two disciplines. This first column highlights the similarities between nursing and engineering, provides a case example, and discusses barriers to nurse-engineer partnerships as well as recommendations for success. Listen to a podcast with the authors at www.ajnonline.com.

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