An Inquiry into Innovation in Clinical Care

• Main Authors: Shu-Jiun Hong, 洪淑君
• Other Authors: Pi-Ju Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47463423831384498049

博士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 教育研究所 === 101 === This research aims to understand innovation in clinical care by exploring its content and practice and to discuss its implication for nursing education. In the first stage of the study, 12 experts and scholars in nursing field were chosen and the Delphi technique was used to investigate the content of innovation in clinical care. In the second stage of the study, a grounded theory of the innovative experiences of clinical care innovation emerged from the interview data of 41 prizewinners in the National Nursing Innovation Competition. The key findings of the Delphi study are as follows: 1. The clinical care innovation contains five dimensions: nursing equipment, nursing technique, nursing model, nursing material, and nursing management. 2. The clinical care innovation contains eight indicators: new-to-the-world, new category, improvement, easy to popularize, security, user-friendly, comprehensiveness, and reasonable price. The key findings of the grounded theory study are as follows: (1) The clinical care innovation is related to the innovator’s personal characteristics. (2) The clinical care innovation is influenced by contextual factors. (3) The clinical care innovation is enacted through the action strategies. (4) The clinical care innovation results in positive outcomes. The implications of this resesrch for nursing education includes: strengthening the professional identity of nursing students; relating innovation in clinical care to the teaching methods of nursing educators; enriching nursing educators’ innovative expertise and skills; using innovation in clinical care to enhance nursing professional development; and applying the dimensions and indicators of innovation in clinical care to enhancing nursing profession.