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. 2023 Sep 21:9:23779608231202631.
doi: 10.1177/23779608231202631. eCollection 2023 Jan-Dec.

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

Nina A Lahti  1 , Caroline Kevin  2 , Sara Schulz  2 , Katarina Meijers  2 , Gerhard G Bothma  3
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The Development of the Innovation Readiness Inventory: An Assessment Tool to Assess Innovation Readiness of Nursing Organizations

Nina A Lahti et al. SAGE Open Nurs. .

Abstract

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.

Keywords: assessment tool; frontline innovation‌; innovation readiness; nurse-led innovation; qualitative research; ‌design thinking.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Summary of Process of Iteration and Validation.
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Evidence-based innovation readiness model for nurse-led innovation.
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Prototype 1 for innovation readiness inventory.
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Qualitative assessment of the innovation readiness of the nursing organization within the emergency and reparative medicine department.
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Qualitative assessment of the innovation readiness of the nursing organization within the emergency and reparative medicine department.
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Comments received from nurse directors related to operationalization of the inventory.
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The innovation readiness inventory.
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The innovation readiness inventory.
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The innovation readiness inventory.
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