Teaching innovation.
Innovation in healthcare is essential to solve the "wicked problems" currently facing healthcare. This article focuses on nature of innovation and how it operates, how innovators think and view problems, how the theory and practice of innovation can be taught in novel ways, and how organizational cultures foster or suppress innovation. Examples of teaching strategies and nurse-driven innovation illustrate the theory and practice of innovation.
Lachman
Vicki D
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College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University, 1505 Race St, Mail Stop 501, Philadel-phia, PA 19102, USA. Vdl22@drexel.edu
Glasgow
Mary Ellen Smith
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Donnelly
Gloria F
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D003479:Curriculum; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004506:Education, Nursing; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D013663:Teaching