The Development of the Innovation Readiness Inventory: An Assessment Tool to Assess Innovation Readiness of Nursing Organizations

Nursing organizations are expected to make contributions to innovation in Healthcare. However, they are often not innovation ready. How do nursing organizations know how Innovation Ready they are? What should nursing organizations do to become more Innovation Ready? In literature, there exists no co...

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Published in:SAGE open nursing Vol. 9; p. 23779608231202631
Main Authors: Lahti, Nina A., Kevin, Caroline, Schulz, Sara, Meijers, Katarina, Bothma, Gerhard G.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01-01-2023
Sage Publications Ltd
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Summary:Nursing organizations are expected to make contributions to innovation in Healthcare. However, they are often not innovation ready. How do nursing organizations know how Innovation Ready they are? What should nursing organizations do to become more Innovation Ready? In literature, there exists no consolidated resource to help nursing organizations to answer these questions. Therefore, this research aimed to support nurse-led innovation by developing an Innovation Readiness Inventory to be used as an assessment tool to qualitatively assess the innovation readiness of nursing organizations and support decision-making on actions to be implemented towards innovation readiness. The researchers performed a literature review to provide the theoretical basis for the assessment tool. Thereafter, the researchers engaged innovation experts and end-users in the form of nurse directors and managers, and frontline nurses. The researchers conducted semi-structured interviews, surveys, and design workshops and performed directed qualitative content analysis where relevant. Throughout, emphasis was placed on the scientific rigor of the research methodology with the intent to ensure the “trustworthiness” of the outcomes. To this end, the researchers implemented published best practices, when relevant and appropriate. As contribution to the discussion around nurse-led innovation, this research delivers the innovation readiness inventory that focusses the discussion on nursing organizations and the nurses within, and discusses challenges and opportunities related to the use thereof.
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ISSN:2377-9608
2377-9608
DOI:10.1177/23779608231202631