Faculty and student innovators at the University of Michigan School of Nursing are addressing a wide range of health care challenges and making a lasting impact.
Select a health care topic below to explore examples of nursing-led innovations being developed at the University of Michigan School of Nursing.
- WHISE Mobile App — A mobile app designed to enhance blood pressure control and management for Black women with hypertension.
- Innovation: Part of a current research study
- Innovators: Lenette Jones, Bruno Giordani
- HopeHQ — Support services for children bereaved by a parent’s overdose death.
- Innovation: www.hope-hq.com
- Innovators: Luisa Kcomt, Sean Esteban McCabe, Rebecca Evans-Polce
- HealthyLifetime® — A program offering solutions for achieving a healthier, more independent life.
- ArtSpective™ — A training program that helps people identify and correct implicit biases through art-based methods.
- Innovation: www.getartspective.com
- Innovators: Clayton Shuman, David Choberka
- Human Trafficking Collaborative — Resources and training for health care providers and systems on identifying and responding to human trafficking.
- Innovation: www.humantrafficking.umich.edu
- Innovators: Michelle Munro Kramer, Bridgette Carr
- Through the Eyes of…Program — A learning program that promotes cultural competence, humility, empathy and implicit bias awareness for health care professionals and community volunteers.
- Innovation: https://available-inventions.umich.edu/product/through-the-eyes-of-program
- Innovators: Dana Tschannen, Patricia Tillman-Meakins, Megan Keiser, Melisa Bathish, Carman Turkelson
- Nurse Leader Evidence-Based Practice Competency Scale Toolkit — A comprehensive toolkit that measures and strengthens evidence-based practice competencies among nurse leaders.
- Innovation: https://available-inventions.umich.edu/product/nurse-leader-evidence-based-practice-ebp-competency-scale
- Innovators: Clayton Shuman, Marita Titler, Robert Ploutz-Snyder
- The ABCs of Prescription Drug Safety — Educational materials promoting safe storage and use of prescription medications.
- Innovation: https://available-inventions.umich.edu/product/the-abcs-of-home-drug-safety
- Innovators: Carol Boyd, Sean Esteban McCabe
- Breathe – Journeys to Healthy Binding Book — A graphic novel providing guidance on healthy binding practices for transgender and nonbinary youth.
- Innovation: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746823/breathe-by-maia-kobabe-and-sarah-peitzmeier-phd-illustrated-by-maia-kobabe
- Innovator: Sarah Peitzmeier
- Fear of Childbirth Assessment (WDEQ-10) Survey & Scoring Guide — A validated tool to measure and address fear of childbirth in clinical settings.
- Innovation: https://available-inventions.umich.edu/product/fear-of-childbirth-assessment-wdeq-10
- Innovators: Lee Roosevelt, Ruth Zielinski, Julia Seng, Lisa Kane Low
- The TELL Tool — A psychoeducational digital aid (Tool to Empower Parental Telling and Talking) that supports parents who used donated eggs, sperm or embryos to form their families.
- Innovation: https://tell-tool.com/
- Innovators: Patricia Hershberger, et al
- VIP Partners™: Virtual Initiatives for Pregnancy and Infancy Partnerships (under development)
- Innovators: Amy Buckenmeyer, Jeri Antilla
- Visual Visits™: A Provider’s Guide to Training for Virtual Physical Assessments — An interactive guide that equips clinicians to conduct high-quality physical assessments via telehealth.
- Innovation: https://available-inventions.umich.edu/product/visual-visits-a-providers-guide-to-training-for-virtual-physical-assessments
- Innovator: Heather Jones
- Survivor Mom’s Companion — An evidence-based intervention supporting mothers with trauma histories.
- Intervention: https://growingforwardtogether.org/survivor-moms-companion/
- Innovators: Julia Seng, Mickey Sperlich
- Trauma Informed Care Grade (TIC Grade) — A validated assessment tool to measure trauma-informed practices in care settings.
- Innovation: https://available-inventions.umich.edu/product/trauma-informed-care-grade-tic-grade
- Innovators: CAsCAid Research Group (Cynthia Darling-Fisher, Nicole Boucher, Julia Seng, Dana Beck, Laura Sinko)
The nursing innovation pipeline at the U-M School of Nursing continues to expand with new and emerging ideas, including:
- Reproductive coercion education and support
- Opioid, stimulant and substance abuse interventions
- Clinical judgment prioritization in collegiate nursing programs
- Improving the confidence of direct care nurses in the first three to five minutes of a code
- Enhancing patient and nurse safety during equipment transport
- Incentivizing prediabetic adults to participate in prevention programs
- Reducing diabetes-related stigma in health care interactions