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,
Am J Nurs. 2022 Mar 1;122(3):55-56. doi: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000823004.49297.70.
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.
这篇文章介绍了一系列护士创新者，只要有可能，就侧重于护士与工程师的合作关系，并概述了这两个学科之间可重复的合作模式。第一篇专栏文章强调了护理和工程之间的相似之处，提供了一个案例示例，并讨论了护士与工程师合作关系的障碍以及成功的建议。请在 www.ajnonline.com 上收听与作者的播客。
