Open AccessClinical leadership and innovation
Author(s) -
David Stanley
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of nursing education and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-4059
pISSN - 1925-4040
DOI - 10.5430/jnep.v2n2p119
Subject(s) - innovation process , business , quality (philosophy) , service (business) , process (computing) , service innovation , clinical practice , knowledge management , process management , public relations , management , political science , medicine , marketing , nursing , computer science , economics , work in process , epistemology , philosophy , operating system
This article suggests that effective clinical leadership leads to innovation. Innovation leads to change and that change leadsto improvements in care, service, quality and professionalism. However, for this process to develop, clinical leadershipneeds to be clearly understood, clinical leaders need to be recognized, by their organizations and by themselves, andopportunities for genuine innovation and real change needs to be supported and fostered.