TY - JOUR
T1 - Achieving added value in a knowledge-intense organization
T2 - One hospital's journey
AU - Marshall, David R.
AU - Davis, Patricia
AU - Cupit, Tammy
AU - Hilt, Timothy
AU - Baer, Jennifer
AU - Bonificio, Barbara
N1 - Funding Information:
The CNO's strategy was enhanced by 2 important, serendipitously occurring opportunities. UTMB Health initiated, through University of Texas System grant funding, the Innovation Challenge—a series of interprofessional innovation education sessions that culminated in 5 possible change projects being evaluated and/or supported by senior executives for implementation in 2014. In late 2012, the UTMB Health Director of Nursing Practice, was nominated and selected for the Arizona State University/American Organization of Nurse Executive's Transdisciplinary Innovation Fellowship, a 15-month immersion in innovation tools, resources, language, and approaches with 8 national fellows initiating change through innovation in their organization. These 2 programs were the perfect catalyst for changes in nursing at UTMB Health. The director of nursing practice was involved and engaged in both programs, resulting in more than 200 hours of focused innovation education. Additionally, she was supported by expert fellowship coach Kathy Malloch, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, who critiqued, met with the steering committee, and advised on the planning. Five motivated, creative, adventuresome, self-nominated nurse clinicians from the UTMB Health Emergency Department, Ambulatory Care, EBP Program, Translational Research, and Post Anesthesia Care Unit were part of the UTMB Health Innovation Challenge and now serve on the Innovation Forerunners Steering Committee, bringing added innovation perspectives. The objective for 2014 is that 75 IFs will become more educated, knowledgeable, aware, open, and motivated as they collectively learn, champion, and share information and concepts about innovation. The curriculum consists of blended learning modes including lectures, PowerPoint, video, group work, discussions, surveys, offsite observation field trips, outside reading, and Internet searches. A model proposed by Dyer, Gregersen, and Christensen 15 in The Innovator's DNA serves as a framework for the necessary innovation skills to be developed. IFs are asked to continually think about the things they want to see changed that can assist with UTMB Health strategies and goals. The long-range goal for IFs is to successfully implement no less than 4 major innovation changes over the next 2 years.
PY - 2014/6
Y1 - 2014/6
N2 - Fifteen years have passed since Sorrells-Jones and Weaver. 1-3 authored a series of articles describing knowledge workers and knowledge-intense organizations. The series explored, among other things, the notion of nurses as knowledge workers, the requirements of leaders of knowledge workers, and system changes necessary to support knowledge workers. During the intervening years, progress has been made at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB Health). During this time, there have also been technological advances that make information and knowledge accessible to the clinician at the point of care, often via the use of hand-held devices, and there has been widespread adoption of electronic health records. This article describes 1 hospital's journey toward the knowledge-intense future envisioned by Sorrells-Jones and Weaver that may prove useful to other organizations.
AB - Fifteen years have passed since Sorrells-Jones and Weaver. 1-3 authored a series of articles describing knowledge workers and knowledge-intense organizations. The series explored, among other things, the notion of nurses as knowledge workers, the requirements of leaders of knowledge workers, and system changes necessary to support knowledge workers. During the intervening years, progress has been made at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB Health). During this time, there have also been technological advances that make information and knowledge accessible to the clinician at the point of care, often via the use of hand-held devices, and there has been widespread adoption of electronic health records. This article describes 1 hospital's journey toward the knowledge-intense future envisioned by Sorrells-Jones and Weaver that may prove useful to other organizations.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.mnl.2014.03.009
DO - 10.1016/j.mnl.2014.03.009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84901300214
SN - 1541-4612
VL - 12
SP - 36
EP - 42
JO - Nurse Leader
JF - Nurse Leader
IS - 3
ER -