Applying the Nursing Ecosystem Concept to Developing Strategic Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership for Valued Patient Care.

Research confirms entrepreneurial leadership encourages entrepreneurial behaviour and an entrepreneurial culture supports the development of 'entrepreneurial mindset'. Nurses implementing and optimizing information technology need to work with numerous stakeholders that collectively make up their ecosystem. Indeed, nurses with an entrepreneurial mindset increase their ability to sense opportunities and mobilize the resources and knowledge required to seek' informatics' opportunities to deliver patient centred care across the whole ecosystem.