Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation
Higher Education - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
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Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation Details
The Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing & Engineering Innovation at UMass Amherst represents one of the most exciting and promising interdisciplinary partnerships on our campus. The Center will bring substantial innovations and scalable solutions to the world's most pressing health care problems. As its name suggests, it unites the world-class capacities of the College of Nursing (ranked in the top 9% among peers nationally) with the deep and wide-ranging expertise of the College of Engineering (ranked the #1 such program in New England and in the top 16% nationally) so that the untapped potential of nurses as healthcare innovation leaders can be realized and the ability of engineers to understand the needs of medical end-users can be enhanced. From developing new medical technologies, to improving operating processes within a variety of patient care settings, The Center is one of the first of its kind to attempt a formal and deliberate alliance between these two fieldsOur Mission:--Unleash the untapped potential of nurses and engineers working together as healthcare innovation leaders --Foster the ability for rapid, effective application of nursing and engineering skill sets to identify issues and realize innovative solutions --Pioneer innovation through the intersection of nursing, engineering and research The Nurse-Engineer Approach: A powerful bidirectional real-time collaboration to identify healthcare problems, iterate potential solutions, evaluate outcomes, and balance tradeoffs to optimize system performance and patient care
