Innovation Examples in Nursing

Innovation in Nursing: A Concept Analysis

The healthcare industry has experienced a proliferation of innovations for enhancing the life expectancy, quality of life, diagnostic, treatment and caring options, as well as the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the healthcare systems. Information technology has also played a vital role in the innovation of nursing care. The term in nursing innovation is widely used throughout nursing and ...

Promoting Innovation in Global Nursing Practice

Innovation can be thought of as taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way. Organizations that innovate create more efficient work processes and have better productivity and performance; however, healthcare is relatively new to the science of innovation. Innovation in nursing is about encouraging nurses to use their knowledge and skills to change old ways of thi...

Evasions in Interactions: Examples from the Transcultural Nursing Research Field

Transcultural qualitative research is known for its utility in eliciting in-depth narratives, resulting in increased understanding about cultural phenomena. However, sometimes specific phenomena in the researcher’s inquiry are ignored, evaded, or denied; or a seemingly crucial experience demonstrating society’s unfairness, which the researcher had been expecting, does not emerge. In this paper,...

Strategic research, technological innovation and nursing.

Technological innovation is defined as a process of conceiving or gathering new functionalities or characteristics for a product or production method. In this movement, shifts in quality or productivity that are able to adapt a business or a service to the market reality are explored. It can be classified as product innovation, when introduced into the market, or process innovation, when used i...

Nursing education: quality, innovation and accountability.