Innovative Leadership in Nursing Practice
Summary
Innovative leadership in nursing practice encompasses the ability to guide clinical teams towards creative problem-solving, continuous improvement and evidence-based change. Leaders in this domain combine strategic vision with a deep understanding of frontline challenges, empowering nurses to propose and implement new models of care. Key attributes include adaptability, collaborative decision-making and a commitment to professional development. Such leadership fosters a culture of inquiry, encourages interprofessional partnerships and ensures that technological and procedural innovations translate into safer, more efficient patient outcomes. Globally, innovative nurse leaders have driven telehealth expansion, streamlined patient pathways and championed sustainable workforce models. By balancing organisational goals with individual empowerment, they secure both quality of care and staff satisfaction, demonstrating the practical impact of leadership that prioritises creativity alongside compassion.
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Technical terms
Job crafting: Proactive modifications by nurses to their tasks and relationships to better suit skills and enhance engagement.
Shared leadership: A distributed form of leadership in which multiple team members share influence and decision-making.
Organisational absorptive capacity: An organisation’s capability to recognise external knowledge, assimilate it and apply it to practice.
Organisational innovation climate: The collective perception among staff regarding support for and encouragement of novel ideas and experimentation.
Self-transcendence: The process by which individuals extend beyond self-interest to achieve broader personal and professional growth.
References
- Inclusive Human Resource Management and Nurses’ Innovative Behavior during Crisis Events: The Roles of Job Crafting and Shared Leadership. Journal of Nursing Management (2024).
- Leveraging Supervisor Knowledge Sharing Behavior and Organizational Absorptive Capacity on Nurses’ Creativity. Journal of Nursing Management (2024).
- Innovative behavior and organizational innovation climate among the Chinese clinical first-line nurses during the Omicron pandemic: The mediating roles of self-transcendence. PLOS ONE (2024).
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