Highlights
- •Frontline nurses face barriers to engaging in innovation despite being well-positioned to solve clinical problems across many settings in healthcare.
- •Nontraditional partnerships are a key driver to successful and timely innovation.
- •Using a closed loop process to iteratively develop and optimize ideas improves optimization and timely progress and increases likelihood of nurse engagement in sustainable innovations.
Abstract
Nurses are well-positioned to solve many problems in healthcare through engagement
in innovation. Support from healthcare organizations to facilitate creative partnerships
may accelerate nurses’ ability to innovate and improve job satisfaction. The value
of creative partnerships is rooted in the diversity of experiences and skillsets of
each project team member. While nurses may be content experts and key stakeholders,
they often lack experience with project management, information technology, product
development, and other important skills. We describe the use of co-creation approaches
in creative partnerships with diverse stakeholders to enhance the ability of nurse-led
project teams to build valuable and sustainable products or services.
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Publication history
Published online: September 22, 2022
Accepted:
July 6,
2022
Received in revised form:
July 6,
2022
Received:
May 18,
2022
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