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Innovation Blog

Learn about and connect with nurses who are leading incredible work from across the country. Their stories can serve as a guide, motivation, or affirmation for your own innovative work. These innovators share insights on everything from pushing through challenges, helpful hints, how to stay the course, dealing with barriers, finding joy in moments of success, and the importance of having a support system.

Innovation Blog Posts

The Future of Nursing: A paradigm shifting moment - August 2021

There is much innovation literature that describes the reasons that industries and markets transform over time. One of the catalysts of dramatic change in industries when they experience unthinkable events. 

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Adding Innovation to Nursing Education - July 2021

Within the first two years of my nursing career, I grew quite frustrated with the daily inefficiencies in care delivery that I encountered while trying to provide patient care.

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Nursing Health Through Architecture - July 2021

Many nursing theorists defined the ‘environment’, but the earliest connection between nursing and architecture can be attributed to Florence Nightingale and her description of hospital design (Nightingale, 1860).

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How to Pitch: Leave them wanting more - June 2021

Your ideas are too important not to be heard. Learning to “pitch” your ideas is a wonderful way to organize and present your thoughts so that others will hear and understand what you are saying.

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Develop an Innovation Mindset: Leaders Create the Future - May 2021

As the complexity of health care and nursing intensifies, nurses are challenged to think creatively and develop innovations that advance the knowledge, learning, and service contributions of our discipline to the health care enterprise.

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We Just Jumped – April 2021

So how does a leading School of Nursing go from a few bullet points on a white board to having a vibrant innovation program boasting over a dozen nurse innovators, eight newly registered inventions and three new product launches in just under two years? The short answer is, like parachutists in a freefall, we just jumped. 

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Calling All Nurses: Take a Chance and Make a Change! – March 2021

“Never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.” - Florence Nightingale

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Instructiderm™ Creates Skin Lesion Models for Learning – September 2020

What happens when nurses identify a big problem and have an idea to help solve that problem? We innovate. First, we would like to speak about the problems we identified- skin cancer and the lack of standardized dermatology education. Next, we will share our invention, Instructional Dermatology Surface Models (IDSMsTM).

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A Startup: A Nurses Journey Up A Mountain – September 2020

Yesterday I was on a mountaintop in Alaska. I hiked to a waterfall with my fiancé Brian and we looked upward past the waterfall. We saw a path that led up through the trees. We looked at each other and smiled. "Let’s see where this road leads us," he says.

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Six Innovation Traps to Avoid During A Pandemic and Beyond – September 2020

Nurses are inherently innovators by our very nature.  But innovator is not always a word that comes to mind when someone hears the word “nurse.”  And, ironically, it is not often a word we use to describe ourselves as a profession.

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My Journey as a Nurse Innovator – September 2020

I am a registered nurse with many years of experience in nursing and teaching nursing as a faculty member. The lack of adequate patient hand hygiene always bothered me and I never quite figured out how to effectively provide hand hygiene that patients could do independently.

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Covid and 19 Ways to Innovate – September 2020

With all of the negative memes circulating the web, you would think nothing good has come from the year 2020. We have been inundated with news of the wildfires in Australia, accelerated global warming, increased racial tensions, sky-high unemployment - and of course Covid-19 - one of the worst pandemics in recorded history. 

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New Light on Innovative Nursing – September 2020

He stood before an attentive audience with his hands high, as if holding a newborn. Using a high-pitched voice (“Look here, little Joey. Can you see me?”), he enticed the “baby” to look at him and follow his moving face.

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