Transforming health care through innovative nurse-led care delivery solutions: A toolkit for transformation (IHI, 2024)

Summary

This toolkit is designed to equip nursing leaders with actionable insights and strategies to redesign care delivery and promote a thriving nursing workforce.

Content

Recognising the value of nurses as innovators and improvers, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) partnered with Johnson & Johnson Foundation on Transforming Health Care Through Innovative Nurse-Led Care Delivery Solutions, a 22-month project to design and test nurse-led care model delivery solutions to promote a thriving nursing workforce. The project demonstrated how care model redesign, including virtual nursing, the use of innovative technologies, and creative use of support teams, can positively impact nurse thriving.

This toolkit is designed to equip nursing leaders with actionable insights and strategies to redesign care and improve nurse thriving based on findings from this project. By utilising the tools and structured approaches outlined in the toolkit, health care organisations can effectively redesign care delivery solutions tailored to their specific needs and drive meaningful improvements to foster an environment in which both nurses and patients flourish.

Highlights:

• Key learning and examples from a diverse group of health care systems that successfully tested innovative care model redesign solutions to promote a thriving nursing workforce.
• Actionable guidance and resources to support teams with implementation, including specific change ideas, recommended measures, and a checklist for getting started.
• A structured improvement science framework and supporting IHI tools to assist teams in driving meaningful change and sustaining improvements.