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Exploring Virtual Nursing Care Models: ADT vs. Care Partner Approaches

December 3, 2024

Discover the key differences between ADT and Care Partner virtual nursing models. Learn how each approach streamlines workflows, enhances patient [...]

The Top 5 Use Cases for Virtual Nursing in Inpatient Care

December 3, 2024

Explore the top 5 use cases for virtual nursing in inpatient care: streamline documentation, enhance medication safety, educate patients, support [...]

The Return on Investment for Virtual Nursing: A Smart Investment for Care

November 1, 2024

Discover how virtual nursing can transform healthcare, reducing patient stays, minimizing costs, and boosting efficiency. Learn how virtual nursing enhances [...]

Virtual Nursing Integration: Boosting Efficiency and Safety in Healthcare

November 1, 2024

Explore how virtual nursing integration boosts healthcare efficiency and safety by supporting care teams, improving patient monitoring, and enhancing interdepartmental [...]

Aligning Needs and Use Cases for Healthcare Transformation with a Virtual Nursing Care Model

September 26, 2024

Aligning your organization’s needs and identifying key use cases are essential for healthcare transformation. Learn how to streamline workflows, optimize [...]

Evaluating Make vs. Buy for Your Virtual Nursing Model: Choosing the Right Virtual Care Solutions

September 26, 2024

Deciding whether to build or buy a virtual nursing model? Explore virtual care solutions, including cost, expertise, scalability, and strategic [...]

Top 5 Reasons to Build and Launch a Virtual Nursing Model

August 27, 2024

Explore how the virtual nursing model tackles workforce shortages, streamlines workflows, boosts patient education, enhances engagement, and cuts costs. Discover [...]

Creating Steady Growth for a Virtual Care Model

August 27, 2024

Learn how to ensure growth for a virtual care model with a step-by-step guide. Start small, use existing tech, streamline [...]

Hybrid Care Models: Preparing Nurses for the Future of Patient Care

July 1, 2024

Explore how hybrid care models such as virtual nursing integrate virtual and direct patient care, enhancing nursing competencies and technological [...]

Enhancing Patient Care by Building Trust in Nursing

July 1, 2024

Discover critical strategies for building trust in nursing within virtual care models. Learn how trust enhances patient care, team collaboration, [...]

National Hospital Week: Nurse Satisfaction Strategies for Hospitals

April 30, 2024

Celebrate National Hospital Week by exploring strategies to enhance nurse satisfaction. Learn how fostering a supportive culture boosts patient care.

National Nurses Week and Empowering Nurses

April 30, 2024

National Nurses Week, from Monday, May 6, to Sunday, May 12, is a great time to reflect on the current [...]

Empowering Nurses Through Technology: Tools for Simplifying Workflows and Engagement

February 26, 2024

Discover how technology empowers nurses with streamlined workflows and enhanced engagement. From E-health records to virtual nursing and telehealth.

Improving Nurse Well-being Through Innovation: Insights and Best Practices

February 26, 2024

Discover innovative strategies to enhance nurse well-being, from technology integration to mental health support programs and flexible scheduling solutions.

Putting the Care Back in Bedside Patient Care

January 30, 2024

Explore the transformative power of virtual nursing in reshaping patient care. Learn how technology reduces nurse burnout and enhances bedside [...]

Highlighting Our Company’s Achievements in Innovation and Nursing

November 30, 2023

As the year comes to an end, we at Innovation Advantage wanted to take some time to reflect on our [...]

The Modern Nursing Environment and Why it Needs to Change

October 2, 2023

In this blog, we will explore the current nursing environment, the need for change in modern healthcare, and some of [...]

The Importance of Ongoing Education in Nursing Career Development

August 1, 2023

Empowering nurses through continuous learning: enhancing skills, adapting to technology, focus on evidence-based practice, and better patient outcomes.

AI in Healthcare

June 30, 2023

There are many uses for AI in healthcare, from predictive analytics to complex virtual assistants. These tools increase patient engagement, [...]

Care Transformation: The Need for New Care Team Models

June 30, 2023

Learn why we need to innovate new types of care teams. What factors need to be considered when putting together [...]

Addressing New Graduate Nurse Turnover: A Call for Change

June 6, 2023

Explore the alarming data on new graduate nurse turnover and the urgent need for change. Retaining these valuable healthcare professionals [...]

Building a Culture of Innovation in Nursing

June 6, 2023

Discover the essential steps to build a culture of innovation in nursing. Empower employees, embrace risk-taking, and foster collaboration for [...]

Amazing Nurses Week Discounts

April 26, 2023

This Nurse Week check out these links for special Nurses Week discounts and even a few discounts that work year-round [...]

Nurses Week Should Last All Year

April 25, 2023

Make recognizing your nurses an everyday activity instead of waiting for Nurses Week. It can lead to increased nurse satisfaction [...]

Why Healthcare Culture is the Key to Transforming Today’s Care Delivery Models

April 25, 2023

Nurses are leaving the healthcare industry due to burnout and dissatisfaction. Prioritizing a culture of staff satisfaction and collaboration is [...]

How to Build a Nursing Culture Where Nurses Will Want to Work

April 25, 2023

Learn how to create a positive nursing culture where nurses will want to work. Prioritize their well-being, recognition, and empowerment [...]

5 Types of Healthcare Robotics That are Changing the Industry

March 31, 2023

Robots in healthcare are becoming more and more common, these are 5 types of healthcare robots that have the potential [...]

How To Improve The Work Environment of Nurses With Robots

March 31, 2023

There are many ways robots in healthcare can improve nurses' work conditions. Most importantly for nurses, robots save time by [...]

Adams Influence Model – An Essential Resource For Influencing Change In Healthcare

March 1, 2023

The Adams influence model is a useful tool for understanding the factors, attributes, and processes of influence that affect the [...]

Healthcare Change Management – How To Influence Change & Best Practices for Communicating Change

February 28, 2023

Let’s take a look at the importance of communicating and influencing change in our organizations and the effect of that [...]

Technology and its Place in Nursing

December 21, 2022

Whether it is robots, artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, ambient computer vision or something else, there are more technological tools available [...]

Using the RACI Matrix to Drive Accountability

December 21, 2022

Healthcare is in a state of disruption and while there are many problems, there are also many solutions. Part of [...]

Vibing in a VUCA Healthcare World

December 21, 2022

VUCA is an acronym, as you may have guessed, that stands for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous, and has been [...]

The Business Case for Utilizing Collaborative Innovation

December 16, 2022

A large 400 bed community-owned, academic, medical center in West Texas with 15,465 discharges and 98,972 inpatient days was spending [...]

What 6 Prominent Healthcare Leaders Told Us About Leadership in 2019

December 30, 2019

These insights come from the change-making leaders we featured in the magazine throughout the year.

Innovation Evangelist Bonnie Clipper’s Mission to Help Nurse Ideas Succeed

December 11, 2019

Ahead of the Year of the Nurse in 2020, we sat down with nurse innovation expert, best-selling author and public [...]

Dr. Bonnie Clipper’s latest book “The Nurse’s Guide to Innovation: Accelerating the Journey” is now available for sale in Amazon

November 21, 2019

The use of service robots is a fairly new and dynamic aspect of the care environment. Of the various types [...]

How to Engage Nurses in Innovation

February 22, 2019

Nurses should participate more frequently with tech companies in the design and development stages of new products, however they are [...]

Dr. Bonnie Clipper Interview – natfluence.com

February 19, 2019

Chief Clinical Officer, Wambi & Former Vice President of Innovation, American Nurses Association

Advancing Nurse-Led Innovation: A Q&A

February 8, 2019

Nurses are 'natural innovators', says the American Nurses Association's Bonnie Clipper, but nurses often don't see themselves that way. According [...]

Disruption and Continuity to Highlight HIMSS19

January 30, 2019

Forward-thinking health IT executives will be focusing on key technology issues at HIMSS19, such as new industry entrants, interoperability policy, [...]

Dynamics of innovation at the point of care: An interview with Dr. Bonnie Clipper

January 21, 2019

Bonnie is a strong advocate for bringing nurses into the innovation space and was responsible for building the ANA’s Innovation [...]

Meet Your New Colleague: The Service Bot

August 1, 2018

The use of service robots is a fairly new and dynamic aspect of the care environment. Of the various types [...]

Key Competencies in Nursing

February 14, 2018

To innovate is to put new ideas into practice or existing ideas into practice in new ways. Innovation isn’t new, [...]