title: Advancing innovation in health care leadership: a collaborative experience.
abstract: The changing framework of today's health care system requires leaders to be increasingly innovative in how they approach their daily functions and responsibilities. Sustaining and advancing a level of innovation that already exists can be challenging for health care administrators with the demands of time and resource limitations. Using collaboration to bring new-age teaching and disciplines to front-line leadership, one hospital was able to reinvigorate a culture of innovation through multiple levels and disciplines of the organization. The Innovation Certification Course provided nursing leaders and other managers' an evidence-drive approach, new principles and useful strategies of innovative leadership and graduate program education.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Services, Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, Gilbert, Arizona, USA.
authors.forename: Victor H
authors.initials: VH
authors.lastname: Garcia
authors.forename: Kevin L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Meek
authors.forename: Kimburli A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D001130:Arizona; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration