Nursing Innovation Lab
In today’s rapidly evolving health care world, nurses are at the forefront of delivering safe, high-quality care, yet they face challenges every day. The Nursing Innovation Lab was created to turn these challenges into opportunities by developing practical solutions that support and elevate the nursing profession and enhance patient care.
How might we support the enhancement of nursing duties and patient outcomes?
Innovation-powered solutions
The purpose of the Nursing Innovation Lab is to design innovative solutions that enhance nurse-driven outcomes across health care settings. By fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration and evidence-based practice, the lab serves as a hub for developing tools, technologies and processes. These innovations aim to support clinical decision-making and streamline workflows, ultimately improving patient care outcomes through nursing care.
The lab also focuses on creating solutions that improve nursing quality indicators, increase nursing engagement and satisfaction, enhance the patient experience, and decrease nursing turnover. By addressing these critical areas, the lab supports a more positive and sustainable work environment for nurses.
Meeting nursing needs
Although the Nursing Innovation Lab contributes to enhanced patient care, that is only made possible by caring for and meeting our nurses’ needs. By identifying problems and innovating solutions to keep the jobs of nurses running smoothly, patient care can be elevated to the next level.
Nursing belonging and burnout: In collaboration with the University of Illinois, this project aims to improve belonging and to understand/detect/mitigate early signs that nurses may have the intent to leave due to burnout. This project helps to provide encouragement and feedback for times of low job satisfaction and reignite the drive for health care.
Nursing programs: Our Innovation Nursing Lab has played a pivotal role in the development of both the nursing fellowship program and the nursing transition to practice program by serving as a collaborative space for idea generation and simulation training. Through the lab, OSF Innovation has been able to refine and enhance these programs to support nurses in order to benefit those seeking care. The hands on environment encourages innovation, supports professional growth and ensures new nurses are better prepared and more confident as they transition into clinical practice.
If you are interested in learning more about the Nursing Innovation Lab, participating in certain aspects of the journey or if you want to invest or collaborate, contact us today.