Education + Research
Do you want to learn more about nursing and healthcare innovation? We’re working to compile content to support your innovation growth. Some of the best ideas come from collaboration, breaking down silos, and by sharing knowledge. See the innovation courses, research, and resources below.
Innovation Education
Check out education content tailored to support your innovation development.
Publishing Opportunity – Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies
Are you a rebel partnering to make health care better? Busy transforming systems? Refusing to settle for the status quo? Ever thought about publishing your work? The next issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies (IJPS) is dedicated to nursing and health care innovation. This call is open to all fields and disciplines.
Submission deadline is August 15.
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Navigate Nursing - Innovation Webinars
Are You a Nurse Influencer? Utilize Innovation to Drive Your Professional Influence
Instructor: Dr. Oriana Beaudet, DNP, RN, PHN
- Descriptor: Now’s the time for nurses like you to build professional influence to advance health, health care, and magnify the value of your expertise. Learn how nurses innovate when constructing their influencer personas. You will identify key aspects of influence and how to best share your authentic leadership and knowledge.
Positioning Nurses to Lead: The Next Transformation of Healthcare
Instructor: Dr. Oriana Beaudet, DNP, RN, PHN
- Healthcare is a system under continuous pressure. The pandemic has shown us where we have struggled and where we shine. You, like all nurses, are a leader. And you are navigating some of the biggest issues of our time – access to care, rapidly expanding environments for care delivery, technology, including social, and societal upheaval. Figure out how to identify and scale barriers to innovation and how nurses can innovate to bring about healthcare transformation. Learn about nurses designing solutions to address the needs of their communities. Nurses and nursing expertise are exactly what healthcare needs.
Innovation in Healthcare: The Role of Creativity, Design, and Innovation in Nursing
Instructor: Dr. Oriana Beaudet, DNP, RN, PHN
- Healthcare is in an incredible time of disruption and nurses are at the epicenter of the pandemic. Nurses are working differently, and our profession’s leadership in redesigning care across our country has never been more apparent. Attend this webinar to learn more about the trends and how you can work and lead through these tumultuous times.
Innovation Research
There are very clear threads between innovation and research. Our goal is to share the innovation research shifting the nursing profession forward.
Accelerating Nursing, Transforming Healthcare
ANA joined the American Organization of Nursing Leaders and Johnson & Johnson to commission a market research study to understand the current state of the nursing profession amid the pandemic. This research highlights the perceptions of nurses, nursing students, advanced practice nurses, administration, physician assistants, and providers. This research is being expanded to broader industry and nursing conversations to harness the wisdom of subject matter experts to examine nursing innovation in three areas: Care Delivery, Organizational Structure and Workforce of the Future. With the insights and knowledge gleaned from these conversations, we hope to define a progressive path forward for nursing, one that will ultimately strengthen and improve care delivery and elevate the role of nurses as innovative change agents.
Read this STAT article, Look to Nurses to Help Accelerate the Transformation of Health Care, to learn more about the Accelerate Nursing, Transforming Healthcare research. Four key take-aways: identify the gaps and appoint nurse leaders today, grow the pipeline of new nurses, embrace nurse-led experimentation within health systems, rethink systems and policies that hinder community-level access to care.
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Nursing Profession in the U.S.: 2020 Quantitative Survey Summary
Now more than ever is the time to reflect on nursing’s role in addressing the issues heightened by COVID-19 and to inform a progressive path forward where nurses are well-positioned and prepared to meet the evolving needs of our patients, communities and health care system. Download the survey to see the impact COVID-19 has had on the nursing profession.
Three Main Research Chapters
The pandemic exposed areas of opportunities for nursing to define a progressive path forward, strengthening care delivery and elevating the role of nurses as change agents and innovative, transformative healthcare leaders. Qualitative interviews with renowned nurse leaders reveal a set of critical learnings as well as next steps and promising practices that are essential in delivering the full potential of the nursing profession for healthcare – now and in the future.
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