Innovation in Nursing: Do We Need It?

Innovation in the dictionary is known to be "a new method, idea, product...". However, in the Nursing profession it has been the practice to follow guidelines, or procedure and the like for decades. Having said that, the practice has been to stick to the rules, although to me innovation is crucial to the continuing success of any profession / organization. In the history of Nursing, most innovative ideas took a theoretical base, such as theories for Nursing practice, Nursing process, and several administrative forms to facilitate administrative nursing management and monitoring, as well as tools for data collection in research studies. Clinical innovative ideas, although I am sure are not rare, but they are not recorded and put into practice as other health related sciences innovative ideas in medicine or pharmacy.