Spreading nursing unit innovation in large hospital systems.
Healthcare administrators increasingly face the challenge of how to spread innovation throughout their organizations. The authors present the results of an evaluation of the efforts of 3 major hospital systems to internally disseminate nursing unit change among medical-surgical units. The findings show that all 3 organizations carefully planned, coordinated, and implemented a spread process; none left dissemination to chance. Although clear differences were evident in the way they engineered their spread, many similarities also were found.
Pearson
Marjorie L
ML
The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California 90401, USA. mpearson@rand.org
Upenieks
Valda V
VV
Yee
Tracy
T
Needleman
Jack
J
D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006284:Health Plan Implementation; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D014481:United States