Operationalizing a Nursing Innovation Center Within a Health Care System
In nursing, the terms “innovation” and “innovative” are used freely, especially when individuals or groups either develop something new or improve upon current practice. Innovation is often considered adjunct work, not part of foundational work that aims to meet the vision, mission, and values of the organization. Nurse leaders must include innovation as an important theme of this foundational work. Innovation must become a core expectation of all nurses and nursing team members. Team members can provide ideas that lead to innovations. They can also carry out roles that enhance or cultivate ideas, promote prototypi...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - January 1, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Kaiser's School of Nursing: A 70-Year Legacy of Disruptive Innovation
A legacy project was launched in 2016 to research, capture, and record the history and voice of Kaiser Foundation School of Nursing alumni. The inspirational stories of these early nursing pioneers emerged within a disruptive and innovative health care system known as Kaiser Permanente. Led by a doctorally prepared nurse director, the new school boldly rejected the dominant social norms of the 1940s by welcoming minorities and offering an unprecedented curriculum that prioritized prevention, health promotion, and wellness over conventional institutionalized sick care models. Kaiser Foundation School of Nursing alumni becam...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - January 1, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Accelerating Innovation Through Coopetition: The Innovation Learning Network Experience
Coopetition, the simultaneous pursuit of cooperation and competition, is a growing force in the innovation landscape. For some organizations, the primary mode of innovation continues to be deeply secretive and highly competitive, but for others, a new style of shared challenges, shared purpose, and shared development has become a superior, more efficient way of working to accelerate innovation capabilities and capacity. Over the last 2 decades, the literature base devoted to coopetition has gradually expanded. However, the field is still in its infancy. The majority of coopetition research is qualitative, primarily consist...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - January 1, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Buildings, Barriers, and Breakthroughs: Bridging Gaps in the Health Care Enterprise
Health care architecture and design are critical resources that are often underestimated and overlooked. As we seek to extract every available resource at our disposal to serve patients and sustain the bottom line, it is vital that we consider the influence the building imposes on the patient and caregiver experiences. Buildings impact both caregiver behaviors and the economic enterprise and are, therefore, the business of health care executives. This understanding is not only an executive obligation, it is an executive opportunity. Furthermore, the built environment can be a source for innovation in an industry whose futu...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - January 1, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
The Power of the Frame: Systems Transformation Framework for Health Care Leaders
Health care leaders are responsible for oversight of multiple and competing change interventions. These interventions regularly fail to achieve the desired outcomes and/or sustainable results. This often occurs because of the mental models and approaches that are used to plan, design, implement, and evaluate the system. These do not account for inherent characteristics that determine the system's likely ability to innovate while maintaining operational effectiveness. Theories exist on how to assess a system's readiness to change, but the definitions, constructs, and assessments are diverse and often look at facets of syste...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - January 1, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
