Lachman Vicki D, Glasgow Mary Ellen Smith, Donnelly Gloria F
College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University, 1505 Race St, Mail Stop 501, Philadel-phia, PA 19102, USA.
Nurs Adm Q. 2009 Jul-Sep;33(3):205-11. doi: 10.1097/NAQ.0b013e3181acca9a.
Innovation in healthcare is essential to solve the "wicked problems" currently facing healthcare. This article focuses on nature of innovation and how it operates, how innovators think and view problems, how the theory and practice of innovation can be taught in novel ways, and how organizational cultures foster or suppress innovation. Examples of teaching strategies and nurse-driven innovation illustrate the theory and practice of innovation.
医疗保健领域的创新对于解决当前医疗保健面临的“棘手问题”至关重要。本文重点关注创新的本质及其运作方式、创新者如何思考和看待问题、如何以新颖的方式教授创新理论与实践,以及组织文化如何促进或抑制创新。教学策略和护士驱动创新的实例阐释了创新的理论与实践。