Sheba Medical Center, Main Hospitalization Tower. Photo: David Shay, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Israel’s Sheba Medical Center launched a new three-month course under its SPARC Entrepreneurship Program that seeks to help nurses develop ideas inspired by their professional experiences.
The course takes place in the Sheba’s ARC Center for Digital Innovation, created in 2019.
The SPARC program attracts medical professionals from around the world, currently including professionals from the United States, Brazil, Germany, Japan and South Africa, among others.
The initiative for nursing staff was the idea of the director of the entrepreneurship program, Zohar Kaplan, inspired by his personal story: “my wife is an emergency nurse. I have always known that nurses are highly motivated to solve immediate and challenging problems, approaching them with creativity and innovative thinking. “They are very practical,” Kaplan explained.
The first group of the SPARC nursing program is made up of 25 Sheba nursing staff who were selected for their innovative ideas, including an AI platform to predict peak demand in specific departments of a hospital, reality assistance virtual for the management of chronic pain and pharmacological safety measures.
