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jrubin · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

An example of one strategy to improve participation in the change process by staff fitting the behavioral descriptions of laggards, early majority, late majority, and rejecters is to:

a. Encourage teamwork.
b. Transfer to a different unit.
c. Require attendance at staff meetings.
d. Delegate the roles and tasks of change.

Question 2

The clinical coordinator expects the position description of the new wound care specialist to change nurses' responsibilities in caring for clients with skin integrity problems.

The best approach to address this need for change, yet to have the best outcomes for clients, staff nurses, and the organization, is to:

a. Select one of the change models.
b. Use Lewin's model and principles of change.
c. Apply both planned and complexity theory approaches.
d. Form a task force of nursing staff and wound care specialists.

bitingbit · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
According to Rogers's work, the individual's decision-making actions pass through five sequential stages. The decision to not accept the new idea may occur at any stage. However, peer change agents and formal change managers can facilitate movement through these stages by encouraging the use of the idea and providing information about its benefits and disadvantages.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
In the second stage, the moving or changing stage of Lewin's theory, planned interventions and strategies, such as education, vision building, and incremental steps towards the change, are executed to support the implementation of the change. This situation potentially also involves complexity theories that recognize that change involves engagement of individuals and subsystems throughout the unit and organization.