A Nurse Innovator Paves the Way for Other Nurses

Karen K Giuliano1, Kelly Landsman

  • 1Karen K. Giuliano is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Institute for Applied Life Sciences and Elaine Marieb College of Nursing and codirector of the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation. Kelly Landsman is a biomedical engineer specializing in patient care devices, has her own health care engineering consulting firm, and is now working as an operating room circulating nurse in Hudson, WI. Contact author: Karen K. Giuliano, kkgiuliano@umass.edu . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

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