During the celebration of the 15th Congress of ANECORM, the National Nursing Association Coordinating Materials Resources, awarded Marta Navarro Colom and Laura Romero Roca with the 13th Prize for a research work for the project Device for holding in bronchoscopies: study of concept and usability, that will be developed next year at the Interventional Pneumology Department of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, in Barcelona.
The nurse and nursing assistant technician of this department come up with the idea of building a functional prototype of a device to maintain the immobilization of people undergoing flexible bronchoscopy and demonstrate through a study the usefulness of the prototype and its applications.
This project won in an initial phase a grant from The Collider On Campus (UAB-MWC), a 7-week online entrepreneurship program based on the Lean Launchpad methodology. This method helps to assess the commercialization feasibility of scientific and technological entrepreneurship projects, and to facilitate their development as a product.
ANECORM’s commitment guarantees the continuity of the product validation study and allows progress in the technological transfer process and the arrival of this health product in clinical practice.
This impulse represents a clear recognition of the nurse’s role in all phases of product development, in the innovative capacity and in the ease of multidisciplinary work with the 3D laboratory of the Hospital de Sant Pau and with the Technological Transfer and Innovation Unit of the Research Institute of Sant Pau – IIB Sant Pau.
