978-0-8261-9618-7
978-0-8261-9625-5
10.1891/9780826196255
As leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and educators, we are painfully aware that the unknowns in healthcare are growing more rapidly and more broadly than what is known. With that in mind, the authors have developed this book on leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship to provide us with an evidence-based approach to maximize our leadership and innovation potential. This practical guide will prepare us to lead our organization into the uncertainty of the future and make a positive impact in the world. The book is organized into three distinct sections: leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship. By studying and applying the evidence-based principles of leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship, the reader will emerge as a more confident and prepared leader to advance a team or organization to its optimal potential. The purpose of this book is to stimulate us to think and act differently by strengthening our leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurial skills in nursing and healthcare. Multiple real-world examples are provided with direct applicability to practice. Each chapter is filled with motivational quotes related to the content to inspire and challenge readers to put the lessons into practice. Embedded within each chapter are multiple calls to action and practical exercises to help develop specific skills related to the content. Podcast recordings, featuring discussions with prolific leaders and innovators, supplement the text.
10.1891/9780826196255.0015
Design thinking is a process that cannot function under the same constraints that have been built around more linear and quantitative approaches in healthcare. It requires a different ecosystem, one that allows for and embeds empathetic engagement, radical collaboration, and rapid prototyping. Design thinking is an action-oriented problem-solving framework. This chapter helps the reader to: define design thinking and describe its role in healthcare leadership, innovation, and practice; develop an understanding of how design thinking relates to, and complements, other effective management and practice approaches; develop comfort in, and a way to navigate, ambiguity and unknowns; and describe strategies for successful implementation of design principles and practices within their own practice/organization. Design thinking yields increased systematic understanding of a problem and its possible solutions because it starts, and is driven by, key stakeholder’s lived experience(s), which cut across sectoral, social, geographical, and political boundaries.
