title: [Innovative thinking in nursing practice].
abstract: The nursing profession is patient-centered and responsible to meet the disparate health needs of a wide range of client "groups". Ensuring continued innovation and change to further improve care quality in an evolving health care system is an important issue. A focus on resolving minor points rather than on achieving major change may be the best approach to realizing continuous innovation in nursing. The advantages include not only promoting nursing quality and decreasing costs and manpower, but also giving satisfaction and self-fulfillment to the innovator. Successful innovation is affected by environmental structural support as well as the characteristics of the innovation and innovator. A successful innovator is sensitive to each opportunity, but is not a risk creator. This article describes innovator characteristics and innovation execution, and investigates the content and process of nursing innovation from various points of view in order to create new ideas and values related to the traditional nursing role.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Chia-Ling
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Ya-Ni
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hsiu-Min
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Tsai
mesh_terms: D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing; D013850:Thinking
keywords: innovative thinking; nursing practice