Why we need more products designed by nurses
Nurses are the nation’s largest group of healthcare professionals and use more products than any other group of clinicians, giving them what Karen Giuliano calls a “uniquely practical and care sensitive perspective on healthcare delivery.”
Karen started her career as a critical care nurse. She was a self described “tinkerer” whose curiosity about products in the ICU ultimately helped her pivot her career into product development, and she wants to encourage more nurses to get involved in product design and development.
In this conversation, Karen and Dan talk about why nurses are the ideal clinicians to address everyday problems in healthcare, how she hopes that COVID-19 will speed up the role of nurses in healthcare innovation and advice for nurses who want to build new products.
Karen can be reached at kkgiuliano(at)nursing(dot)umass(dot)edu
Links to recommended reading:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karen_Giuliano2
The full transcript for this episode can be found here: www.trustedhealth.com/the-handoff-podcast/karen-giuliano
