OSF Healthcare starts nursing innovation fellowship

OSF Healthcare launched a nursing innovation fellowship to provide bedside nurses with opportunities to realize their ideas to improve care. The program, which began in 2024 with five fellows, enables bedside nurses to develop solutions that enhance nursing quality indicators, improve nurse engagement and satisfaction, enhance the patient experience and decrease turnover. Mentors enable fellows to become innovators at the bedside and teach them to mentor their peers. The fellows work two shifts a week and spend their remaining time on education initiatives and innovating. Several innovations are in prototype development, according to AONL member Nikki Graham, DNP, RN, vice president, clinical excellence at the Peoria, Ill.-based system. (HealthLeaders Media article, 10/6/25)