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CBme

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on: Jul 8, 2018
Several senior nurses have opposed the installation of the new computerized charting system. The nurse manager hears these senior nurses make negative comments to the novice nurses about the new system.
 
  According to Rogers, the senior nurses are which kind of adopters?
  a. Innovators
  b. Early adopters
  c. Laggards
  d. Rejecters

Question 2

The staff members question the nurse manager about the effects of the new computerized charting system on their workload. They are unsure if the computerized charting system will be easy to learn.
 
  The staff members are in which of the stages of the innovation process as defined by Rogers?
  a. Knowledge
  b. Persuasion
  c. Decision
  d. Confirmation


atrochim

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Reply #1 on: Jul 8, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
The rejecters were identified in Rogers's 1983 book as opposing change and encouraging others to reject change as well.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
The persuasion stage is a feeling phase in which people form a favorable or unfavorable attitude toward an innovation. People want to know how easily the innovation can be implemented and what its advantages and disadvantages are for them.


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