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Innovations in Nursing.
Innovations in Nursing.
The only constant feature in this world is change. While all the change may not lead to progress,
there can be no progress without change. This is true for the individual, institution, organization or
the country. Civilization owes its existence to change. The success or even survival of an institution
or organization on depends on making necessary changes.
DEFINITION:
Innovation is defined as the generation of new ideas or application of existing ideas to a new
situation resulting in improvement in organization
Innovation is the action of introducing a new method, idea or product.
NEED OF INNOVATION:
1. Innovation to central to maintaining and improving quality of care.
2. Growing demands in health services.
3. Global workforce shortage.
TYPES OF INNOVATION:
Product innovation- It is the creation and subsequent introduction of a good or service that
is either new, or improved on previous goods or services.
Process Innovation- A process innovation is the implementation of a new way for
significantly improved production or delivery method.
CHARACTERISTICS OF INNOVATION:
Relative advantage: It is the degree to which the new idea is considered superior to the old
one.
Compatibility: It refers to the degree of congruence between the innovation and existing
values, habits, past experience and need of the participant.
Complexity: It describes the amount of difficulty that participants have in understanding and
subsequently using the innovation.
Trialability: it is the degree to which the new idea can be pretested or tried on a limited
basis.
Observability: It refers to how visible the innovation is to participants and onlookers.
PRINCIPLES:
Innovation is to analyse the opportunities or sources.
Innovation is both conceptual and perceptual.
It should be simple and focused.
Effective innovation starts small and they aim to do one specific thing.
Successful innovation aims at being the best from the very beginning.
INNOVATION IN NURSING EDUCATION:
Handheld computers in nursing education-
• First personal digital assistant in 1996.
• According to ANA (2001) all nurses need to use nursing informatics.
Videoconferencing and web-based conferencing-
• Connects students and educators across distance.
• Connects diverse student groups.
E-learning-
• Adaptation of different distance learning technologies.
• Self-directed, active learning.
• Refocusing from educator to the subject.
Service-learning-
• Structured learning experience that combines community service with preparation and
reflection.
• Achieves a balance between service and learning objective.
High fidelity patient simulator-
• Help student practice decision making and problem-solving skill and to develop human
interaction.
• Simulation is the third leg in the stool of education and science.
Tele teaching-
• Online model of education-learner directly interacts with tutor.
• Learner oriented learning • Promotes discovery learning.
Micro teaching-
• Miniature classroom teaching.
• Small duration.
• Paying full attention to a particular unit and skill.
• Content reduced to one unit with a single concept.
Nursing informatics-
• Integrates nursing science, computer science and information science in identifying,
collecting, processing and managing data and information to support nursing practice,
administration, education, research.
2. Wireless technology-
• Nurse have immediate telephone contact with employees and with patient.
• Direct and accurate communication between Nurse and Physician.
• E.g. In south Africa nurses uses their mobile phone to support people living with HIV/AIDS.
5. Infection control-
• To meet the annual JCAH educational requirement.
• To identify available resources which in the Hospital while maintaining good patient care.
• Infection control has become Paramount importance.
• Segregation of waste has become mandatory in all the hospitals.
• Every hospital needs to have Hospital infection control committee & policy.
6. Management & leadership- Nursing leaders and managers are exposed to different
management principles relevant to nursing practice. They are as follows:
Management theory & leadership principles.
Time management.
Decision making & problem solving.
Teaching & performance strategies.
Identifying and achieving patient goals.
Documentation as an instrument.
Performance evaluation.
Quality assurance.
7. Job description-
• These are written according to specific practice area and level of responsibility.
• Nurses are also given format of the standards for performance.
8. Procedure manuals-
• Procedure manual has become mandatory.
10. Triage-
Triage has become mandatory in the accident and emergency and thereby they are able to
prioritize the patients those who come to causality and are able to treat the sick and
vulnerable one as early as possible.
11. Ethics-
• This is to increase more awareness among nurses that they will be able to apply ethics
principles while caring for patients.
• It significantly increases their knowledge about ethics and improves patient satisfaction and
the litigation rates.
• Many hospitals encourage nurses to attend such conferences and workshops.
• Travel nurse- Assignment usually for a minimum time. Extra allowance will be provided.
16. Nurse practitioner- Nurse serves as a primary care provider and consultant for individuals,
families or communities.
17. Certified nurse midwife- Independent management of women’s health care. should pass the
national certification examination conducted by ACNM.
18. Clinical nurse specialist- Clinical expertise in a defined area of nursing practice for a
selected client population or clinical setting.
19. Nurse administrator- Nurse administrator unites the leadership perspective of professional
nursing with various aspects of business and health administration.
1. Use of computer- Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) Clinical decision support
system (CDSS).
2. Electronic medical records-
• Affordable & integrated.
• For improving patient care.
• Powerful practice management system for practices of any size.
• Fast, flexible, Easy to use schedule for increasing productivity.
• Clinical desktop for improving enterprise work flow.
• Integrated, Internet – based solution that securely connects clinics and patients.
• Electronic document management system for eliminating paper charts.
3. Leadership for change- It is an action learning programme to develop nurses as effective
leaders and managers.
4. Innovation in research
Types of research
- Qualitative research.
- Quantitative research.
Nursing innovation are key to improvement and progress in health systems worldwide
SUMMARY:
According to a report by ICN (2009), innovation in nursing applications is extremely important for
improving health, preventing diseases, describing and avoiding risk factors, developing healthy life
standard attitudes, and qualifying the care and treatment methods; because innovation helps updated
knowledge, method.
CONCLUSION:
Every nurse can play a role in ensuring that innovations are effectively implemented and adopted.
Through their professional conduct and relationship with colleagues, nurses can play in creating a
working environment. In their leadership positions, nurses are well placed to disseminate
information about innovations. In leadership roles, is encouraged and supported among peers and
more junior staff. Everyday nurse are developing new and innovative approaches to improve
healthcare services and healthcare outcome for local people. Nursing innovation are key to
improvement and progress in health systems worldwide.
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