Moving nursing innovation to prime time through the use of creative partnerships

Nurses are innovative by nature and often identify creative solutions to improve patient care, workflow efficiency, and in resource availability (Snow, 2019; White, Pillay,& Huang, 2016). Historically, Florence Nightingale pioneered nursing innovation in the mid-1800s and since that time nurses have been inventing and transforming care delivery in countless ways (Nightingale, 1863). For example, as use of Nightingale's original nursing process has evolved, nurses have solved far-reaching problems such as hi-tech communication strategies for isolated patients during COVID, use of artificial intelligence to predict patient compromise and decline, and use of fabric and sewing machines to prevent infection of pediatric central lines (Holdsworth et al., 2021; Kettle et al., 2020; Tetlow, Allen, Barnes,& Shaw, 2021).
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