Managing and leading innovation in health care / edited by Elizabeth Howkins, Cynthia Thornton ; foreword by Sarah Mullally.
Contributor(s): Howkins, Elizabeth | Thornton, Cynthia | Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain)
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BookSeries: Six steps to effective management.Publisher: Edinburgh ; New York : Baillière Tindall : RCN, 2002Description: xvii, 414 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0702025526; 9780702025525.Subject(s): Nursing services -- Administration | Health services administration -- Great Britain | Medical innovations | Health care reform | Nursing -- organization & administration | National Health Service (Great Britain) -- Management | Creativeness -- Nurses' Instruction | Health and Wellbeing | Leadership -- Nurses' Instruction | Nursing | Organizational Innovation -- Nurses' Instruction | Quality of Health Care -- Nurses' InstructionDDC classification: 362.173068 MAN Summary: The introduction of a plethora of health policy initiatives by the government as a response to increasingly empowered NHS patients who express their dissatisfaction with the service has created a need for creativity and innovation on the part of health service personnel. These papers discuss this pressing issue.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Part of the Six Steps to Effective Management series, this book focuses on the importance of leadership and innovation for effective nursing practice. Inside you'll find strategies for adapting to the rapidly changing health care environment, ensuring your professional growth, and developing your business management skills. Provides an accessible mix of theory with a unique emphasis on real life applications.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The introduction of a plethora of health policy initiatives by the government as a response to increasingly empowered NHS patients who express their dissatisfaction with the service has created a need for creativity and innovation on the part of health service personnel. These papers discuss this pressing issue.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Section 1 The Creative Challenge
- Chapter 1 Creativity in Healthcare
- Chapter 2 Creativity and Caring
- Chapter 3 The Reconstituted Professional
- Section 2 Changing Relationships in Health Care
- Chapter 4 The Nature and Purpose of Leadership
- Chapter 5 Evolution or Revolution? Negotiation as a means of Effecting Change
- Chapter 6 Testing Boundaries: The Rise and Rise of Teamworks
- Section 3 Developing Skills for Innovation
- Chapter 7 Sustaining Creativity and Innovation
- Chapter 8 Diversity and Change are Endemic
- Chapter 9 Overcoming Barriers to Innovation
- Section 4 Managing Knowledge in Health Care
- Chapter 10 Evidence Based Practice
- Chapter 11 The Technological Revolution
- Chapter 12 Research and Development in Health Care
- Section 5 Old Problems, New Solutions
- Chapter 13 Creative Solutions to the Issue of Quality Improvement in the NHS
- Chapter 14 Services without Boundaries: Creative Solutions to Leading and Organising Professional Practice