title: Supporting nursing innovations in a cost-conscious environment.
abstract: Our rapidly changing health care environment requires critical care nurses to develop creative and innovative approaches to patient care. Empowering and enabling these nurses are the only ways that health care institutions will be able to meet the challenges of the future. This article describes two examples of innovations that have contributed to cost containment within a coronary care unit.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bartrug
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Bride
mesh_terms: D015400:Clinical Nursing Research / Q000191:economics; D003363:Cost Control; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D012109:Research Support as Topic