Ideas welcome: innovating to improve patient care
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Ideas welcome: innovating to improve patient care

Lisa Rickers Nurse innovator, founder, ICrowd, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Marcus Stow Nurse innovator, Wing Commander, Royal Air Force, NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme

All nurses can be leaders in innovation, whatever their job title, pay scale or experience

Nurses have always developed innovative ideas aimed at improving patient care. As a profession, nurses are closest to the delivery of healthcare, spend the most time with patients and are ideally placed to identify changes in practice that could have a real impact on patient experience.

Nursing Management. 29, 1, 9-10. doi: 10.7748/nm.29.1.9.s3

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