title: Components of nurse innovation: a model from acute care hospitals.
abstract: Components that promote nurse innovation in acute care hospitals are explicated in the Acute Care Nursing Innovation Model. Grounded in nursing care delivery systems and excellent management-organizations perspectives, nurse executives and 30 nurse "intrapreneurs" from 10 innovative hospitals spanning the United States shared their experiences and insights through semistructured, tape-recorded telephone interviews. Guided by interpretive interactionist strategies, the essential components, characteristics, and interrelationships are conceptualized and described so that others may be successful in their innovative endeavors. Successful innovation is dependent on the fit between and among the components; the better the fit, the more likely the innovation will succeed.
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Neidlinger
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Drews
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hukari
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Bartleson
authors.forename: F K
authors.initials: FK
authors.lastname: Abbott
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Harper
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lyon
mesh_terms: D003405:Creativity; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D016520:Entrepreneurship; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D015401:Nursing Administration Research; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards