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C F Beason

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Creating an innovative organization.

Buffeted daily by market and consumer forces demanding change, how does an organization move to become the innovative organization of the future? As one linchpin of a broad scale reorganization of its national healthcare system, the US Department of Veterans Affairs set out to identify and promote innovative clinical practices. Leaders began with the approximately 35,000 registered nurses who make up the largest segment of health care providers in the system. This article discusses the characteristics of an innovative organization and identifies those issues that the Department of Veteran's Affairs determined as critical to becoming an organization that fosters and sustains innovation.

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Advancing innovative nursing practice.

A massive reorganization of its national healthcare network, coupled with new goals of primary care and preventive care-provided in the highest quality and most cost-efficient manner-prompted the US Department of Veterans Affairs to identify innovative models of nursing practice that would promote needed change. Using these events as a case study, the author discusses why innovation is essential in today's successful health care organizations and explores methods by which innovative practices can be identified.

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