The nursing profession is patient-centered and responsible to meet the disparate health needs of a wide range of client "groups". Ensuring continued innovation and change to further improve care quality in an evolving health care system is an important issue. A focus on resolving minor points rather than on achieving major change may be the best approach to realizing continuous innovation in nursing. The advantages include not only promoting nursing quality and decreasing costs and manpower, but also giving satisfaction and self-fulfillment to the innovator. Successful innovation is affected by environmental structural support as well as the characteristics of the innovation and innovator. A successful innovator is sensitive to each opportunity, but is not a risk creator. This article describes innovator characteristics and innovation execution, and investigates the content and process of nursing innovation from various points of view in order to create new ideas and values related to the traditional nursing role.
Title: 創新思維在護理實務之運用
向來以人為核心價值，滿足不同族群健康需求為導向的護理專業，如何從變革的醫療照護體系中持續不斷的創新與改變，進而提升個案健康服務品質，已成為重要的議題。護理創新不需要改變很大，從小處著手且聚集焦點，通常有較高的成功率，帶來的益處包括降低照護成本、人力，同時提升照護品質，增加創新者的滿意度及成就感。成功的創新包括環境結構支持、創意本質、創新者特質。成功的創新者不是風險的創造者，而是敏銳、精準掌握每一個發展的機會。本文旨在探究護理創新內涵及歷程、說明創新者的特質及護理創新實務，最後從不同的角度提出建議，期能提供讀者不同層面思考，在傳統守護者角色中創造出不同照護價值。
Keywords: innovative thinking; nursing practice.