Doctor of Nursing Practice student selected for UMB President's Entrepreneurial Fellowship.
Layne Price, BSN, RN, PCCN, a student in UMSON's Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Family Nurse Practitioner specialty and president of the School's Doctoral Student Organization, was selected for the University of Maryland, Baltimore President's Entrepreneurial Fellowship.
The fellowship is an initiative designed to give students from UMB and the Smith School of Business hands-on training and experience in commercializing health science discoveries made by UMB faculty. The fellows will work together as an interdisciplinary team to bring several of UMB’s most promising technologies to market.
"Nurses are inherently innovators and are in a unique position to understand the needs of patients and health care systems," Price wrote in her application essay. "Unfortunately, often nurses lack the knowledge and skillset to make their ideas reality. I’ve come to understand that nurses must have a seat at the table in improving healthcare systems and healthcare innovation because of the uniqueness of their experiences and voices. I’m passionate about empowering nurses and improving their access to the innovation and entrepreneurial sector."
Last fall, Price participated in and won a Nurse Hackathon hosted by SONSIEL, Johnson & Johnson, and Microsoft. Together with a team of nurses, she created a prototype for a cloud-based app to track burnout among nurses and give them coping strategies to mitigate their stress.
Price is working on a culminating DNP project focusing on "Enhancing Outpatient Perinatal Depression Screening & Referral Using a Safety Bundle."