Reimagining Nursing Through Innovation and Design Thinking

Abstract

Recruitment and retention of nurses is a national health issue with implications for patients, nurses, and other healthcare providers. This article describes an innovative opportunity for the professional development of nurses at a local health system. This Nursing Research and Innovation Fellowship provided participating nurses with the knowledge of a design thinking framework and fostered the application in the context of complex challenges they face in their daily work. The potential impact of such programs on job satisfaction, retention, and relevance to public healthcare issues is discussed.