"Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions addresses the current emerging issues facing healthcare leaders and practitioners who spearhead evidence-based innovation. This text is truly unique in that it systematically addresses innovation and evidence from the perspective of both a leader and a practitioner within the context of healthcare. Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions was written by healthcare leaders for current and future innovation leaders. The content is organized to walk the learner through the foundations of evidence, innovation, and leadership. The text is divided into four sections covering evidence and innovation leadership, sources of new evidence, how to lead and measure, and synthesis between theory and practice. This text seeks to be a catalyst for disruptive innovation in healthcare in terms of content as well as how we educate the next generation of healthcare leaders."--Back cover.

EBP and innovation paradigm : defining and aligning -- Leading innovation : competencies of the truly innovative leader -- Assessing your innovation and evidence capacity, alignment, and drivers -- Patient centered care, evidence and innovation -- Incorporating big data, emerging technology, and disruptive practices into your innovation ecosystem -- Creating the business case for innovation : communicating innovation value through evidence -- Emergence and disruption : working on the edge of evidence -- Just in Time information enabled by technology for real time point of care innovation -- Setting the stage for an evidence-based practice culture and emergence of innovation -- Recognizing pattern changes as evidence for innovation work -- Failure is the only option : progress and learning when things don't work -- Partnership economics : innovating the workforce of the future -- 21st century alchemy : overcoming resistance -- Evidence-based education for healthcare innovation -- Innovation and partnerships : healthcare, industry and labor unions -- Moving to the future of evidence, innovation, and leadership in healthcare.