Aim:To analyze the concept of patient flow management.Background: Patient flow has a significant impact on the provision of patient care.The term "patient flow" is widely used, but the related concept of "patient flow management" has been poorly defined. The ability to differentiate and clarify the term patient flow management has implications on strategies to improve patient flow.Design: Rodgers evolutionary method of concept analysis.

Competency-based pay has become the focus of much heated debate today. While its advocates assert it achieves precisely measurable benefits, its opponents argue that it tends to lead to unfair, invalid, and discriminatory outcomes. Among companies that have implemented competency-based pay, there is evidence that the failure rate is relatively high. Over the next few years however, with the growing need to emphasize employee development, the authors expect to see a major movement toward formal competency-based pay systems and, along with an increase in experience and learnings, a greater rate of success. "It makes sense to put money behind those things the company values-skills, competencies, behavioral change. And, based on our observations to date, it can be a highly effective way to motivate employees and create change," the authors argue.

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A new certificate program has been designed that augments the traditional undergraduate nursing education with a curriculum of innovation and entrepreneurship. The goal of the Integrated Innovation & Entrepreneurship Certificate in Nursing Program (INNOVATE) is to empower nurses to collaboratively solve health care challenges and become thought leaders in health care products, technologies, and processes, as well as service and delivery methods, with a particular focus on the needs of vulnerable populations. Toward this goal, INNOVATE is built on an integrative, immersive curriculum, experiential learning, intentional cohort building, peer and faculty support, real-world connections, and the prioritization of diversity, inclusivity, and equity to build of a cohort of nursing students ready for careers in clinical and health care innovation. In this article, we provide the outline for the proposed curriculum, program strategies, anticipated outcomes, and evaluation criteria that we believe can serve as a national model for innovation and entrepreneurship in undergraduate nursing education.