title: Advancing innovative nursing practice.
abstract: A massive reorganization of its national healthcare network, coupled with new goals of primary care and preventive care-provided in the highest quality and most cost-efficient manner-prompted the US Department of Veterans Affairs to identify innovative models of nursing practice that would promote needed change. Using these events as a case study, the author discusses why innovation is essential in today's successful health care organizations and explores methods by which innovative practices can be identified.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Strategic Healthcare Group, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC 20420, USA.
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Beason
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006787:Hospitals, Veterans / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009736:Nursing Process / Q000458:organization & administration; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D014481:United States; D014493:United States Department of Veterans Affairs / Q000458:organization & administration*