You know the syringe the doctor used on you the last time you saw him? Well, guess what? It may have been tested at your very own University.
Manufacturers are sending their medical instruments to the Nursing School's Health Care Evaluation Services Center on their way the marketplace.
The Center, in its first year at the University, assists in testing medical devices other companies developed. The Center does not test drugs, but focuses mostly on the tools doctors and nurses use to care for their patients.
Center Director Deborah Conway said the Center allows for real-world testing situations companies otherwise would not be able to simulate.
Conway described the facility as "a place where companies can bring products to see how they work in a fairly real setting before the products go to market."
"The goals of the center are to provide a service for corporate entities which allows them to get their product out into the market and know it will be effective and safe," she said. "We also hope to help companies in developing training manuals for the devices that can be read at a novice level."
The companies are not the only ones to benefit from the Center.
The Center will allow Nursing School students to learn more about medical devices, Conway said.
In July, the Center had its first paying customer. In that investigation, volunteer participants tested a new type of sheath that covers syringe tips. The cover automatically encloses the needle.
Concern for the safety of doctors and nurses is a rapidly growing part of the medical industry today. The syringe sheath exemplifies the type of products the Center will be testing.
Asst. Nursing Prof. Reba Moyer Childress participated in testing the hypodermic sheaths this July.
"I felt that I was assisting in making sure society had products of quality which were also safe and user-friendly for clinicians, " Childress said.
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