Roadmap to Drive Innovativeness in Health Care

Innovativeness in health care is synonymous with nurse leaders using principles and tools of design thinking to drive innovations. A supportive culture, plus providing actionable thinking designs to drive new ways of being, seeing, and doing, v mitigate barriers to problem solving and allow intentional processes to enable change and develop new solutions or innovations. The Conceptual Framework for Healthcare Innovativeness is a design thinking method that is intentional and requires the influence of the workplace culture to drive behavior for innovations. This article reviews the leader's role in enabling innovativeness using a design thinking method.