Beason C F
Nursing Strategic Healthcare Group, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC 20420, USA.
Nurs Clin North Am. 2000 Jun;35(2):443-51.
Buffeted daily by market and consumer forces demanding change, how does an organization move to become the innovative organization of the future? As one linchpin of a broad scale reorganization of its national healthcare system, the US Department of Veterans Affairs set out to identify and promote innovative clinical practices. Leaders began with the approximately 35,000 registered nurses who make up the largest segment of health care providers in the system. This article discusses the characteristics of an innovative organization and identifies those issues that the Department of Veteran's Affairs determined as critical to becoming an organization that fosters and sustains innovation.
在市场和消费者要求变革的力量每日冲击下,一个组织如何迈向成为未来的创新型组织?作为其国家医疗保健系统大规模重组的关键环节之一,美国退伍军人事务部着手识别并推广创新型临床实践。领导者们从约35000名注册护士入手,这些护士构成了该系统中最大的医疗服务提供者群体。本文讨论了创新型组织的特征,并确定了退伍军人事务部认定的对于成为一个培育和维持创新的组织至关重要的那些问题。