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Ellen Benjamin1, Karen K Giuliano
1Ellen Benjamin recently completed her PhD in nursing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing. Karen K. Giuliano is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Institute for Applied Life Sciences and the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing and is codirector of the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation. Contact author: Karen K. Giuliano, kkgiuliano@umass.edu . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
Abstract:
This is the fifth article in a series on nurse innovators, which focuses whenever possible on nurse-engineer partnerships and outlines working, replicable models of collaboration between the two disciplines. In this installment, we profile Katherine N. Scafide, a forensic nurse and researcher, who has partnered with engineers over many years to improve bruise detection in patients with dark skin tone.
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