title: Enhancing Cross-functional Collaboration and Effective Problem Solving Through an Innovation Challenge for Point-of-Care Providers.
abstract: An internal employee challenge competition is a way to promote staff engagement and generate innovative business solutions. This Spotlight on Leadership focuses on the approach that a large not-for-profit healthcare organization, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, took in designing and executing an innovation challenge. The challenge leveraged internal staff expertise and promoted wide participation. This model is 1 that can be replicated by organizations as leaders work to engage employees at the point of service in organization-wide problem solving.
authors.affiliation: Author Affiliations: Associate Director (Ms Bakallbashi); Associate Project Manager (Ms Vyas); Director Performance and Innovation (Ms Vaswani); Vice President Performance and Innovation (Mr Rosales); Senior Evaluation Scientist (Dr Russell); Professor of Nursing (Dr Dowding); Senior Vice President Enterprise Sales and Chief Marketing Officer (Mr Bernstein); Chief Medical Officer (Dr Abdelaal); Senior Vice President and Chief of Provider Services (Ms Hawkey); Visiting Nurse Service of New York.
authors.forename: Eni
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bakallbashi
authors.forename: Anjali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vyas
authors.forename: Nikita
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Vaswani
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rosales
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Russell
authors.forename: Dawn
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dowding
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bernstein
authors.forename: Hany
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Abdelaal
authors.forename: Regina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hawkey
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009518:New York; D009739:Nursing Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011340:Problem Solving; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods*