SHINE
The SHINE program unites nursing and engineering PhD trainees to co-create practical, research-driven solutions that improve patient care, device usability, and healthcare delivery.
Research Intiatives
Our research initiatives provide data to resolve healthcare challenges for better patient outcomes.
Research Initiatives
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We’re investigating how critical‐care nurses interact with different IV smart pumps to understand programming complexity and its impact on medication safety. Your insights will help guide the design of safer, more intuitive pump interfaces.
Non-Ventilator Hospital Acquired Pneumonia (NVHAP) is a leading cause of healthcare acquired infections in hospitals. Despite the known harm, most hospitals do not report or monitor NVHAP, and neither the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) nor the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Service CMS) have any mandatory reporting requirements. A growing body of evidence demonstrates that Oral Health Care is important for the prevention of NVHAP.
This interdisciplinary project brings nursing and engineering students together to explore modular, mobile robotic research and the educational ecosystem to create solutions to healthcare problems.
Pilot Projects
The Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation Pilot Projects support UMass faculty teams that use interdisciplinary nurse-engineer research to discover and fill gaps in effective healthcare products and processes.
Pilot Projects
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This project, jointly funded with the Institute of Diversity Sciences, explores food access and affordability across Massachusetts. A multidisciplinary team is creating a geospatial model that combines food pricing, transit routes, and income data to reveal where healthy food is realistically accessible. By adding community interviews to the data, the project highlights hidden barriers and aims to inform smarter policies in transit, urban planning, and food assistance.
This interdisciplinary team is developing accessible and cost-effective AI-driven tools for the early detection of ADRD—a group of progressive, underdiagnosed neurodegenerative conditions.
This project uses wearable sensors and real-time data analytics to study nurse stressors in dynamic hospital environments.