Even though Smart Devices increasingly permeating into hospital environments facilitate more efficient use while also acquiring new and complex capabilities (Bolton, Gassert, and Cipriano, 2008), false use can bring unexpected and potentially life-threatening complications (e.g. Rothschild et al., 2005). One reason for lack of success or worse for introducing unexpected complications it the fact that a huge number of devices and applications were not developed with the intents to use in healthcare or specifically for nurse training.
Therefore, to successfully establish newly developed an innovative clinical smart device application in real clinical and training routines, SmartNurse strives to fully understand whether such devices can bring actual benefit to health care and how to exploit it fully. Furthermore, SmartNurse wants to understand how to integrate these devices into existing structures while at the same limiting potential miss-use or complications, and finally, understand the potential of the market. This also includes understanding, not only the practical requirement and the technical do-abilities, but also the legal, ethical, and regulatory constraints.
During the course of the project, SmartNurse collected all practical, legal and ethical requirements essential to establish the SmartNurse nurse training assistant in real-life nurse training. Further, it analyzed all technical challenges to accomplish the practical, legal and ethical requirements and in line of it developed different instant-feedback CPR-assistant devices that were tested and evaluated in regards to standard human teaching sessions. Eventually, SmartNurse pre-develop some business strategies, including financial requirements and options necessary to reach market traction, further indentifying steps necessary in order to bring this product to the market.
