Shirly Luz1, Efrat Shadmi2, Anat Drach-Zahavy2. 1. Department of Nursing, the University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. Electronic address: kb1234@orange.net.il. 2. Department of Nursing, the University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Frontline nurse champions are key innovation-implementation agents. Despite the growing interest in nurse champions' innovation, whether project novelty is a product of championship behavior (e.g., expressing confidence in the innovation's success and network building), the project's contextual characteristics (project type and initiation level), or their joint effects, remains unsolved. PURPOSE: To develop and test an interactionist model of project novelty in nursing. METHODS: A cross-sectional design with a multisource approach to data collection. FINDINGS: Results demonstrated a direct effect of project type, a two-way interaction effect of level of initiation and project type, a two-way interaction effect of championship and project type, and a three-way interaction effect of project type, initiation level, and championship on project's novelty. DISCUSSION: Bottom-up service and administrative projects require champions' championship behaviors to foster novelty, whereas for bottom-up quality-improvement projects, such behaviors can harm project novelty. For human-resource projects and for top-down projects, championship behaviors do not matter.
BACKGROUND: Frontline nurse champions are key innovation-implementation agents. Despite the growing interest in nurse champions' innovation, whether project novelty is a product of championship behavior (e.g., expressing confidence in the innovation's success and network building), the project's contextual characteristics (project type and initiation level), or their joint effects, remains unsolved. PURPOSE: To develop and test an interactionist model of project novelty in nursing. METHODS: A cross-sectional design with a multisource approach to data collection. FINDINGS: Results demonstrated a direct effect of project type, a two-way interaction effect of level of initiation and project type, a two-way interaction effect of championship and project type, and a three-way interaction effect of project type, initiation level, and championship on project's novelty. DISCUSSION: Bottom-up service and administrative projects require champions' championship behaviors to foster novelty, whereas for bottom-up quality-improvement projects, such behaviors can harm project novelty. For human-resource projects and for top-down projects, championship behaviors do not matter.
Authors: Taura L Barr; Kathy Malloch; Michael H Ackerman; Tim Raderstorf; Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk Journal: Nurs Outlook Date: 2021-06-25 Impact factor: 3.315