Marie is a long-term staff nurse on the rehab floor. Her unit ...

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Marie is a long-term staff nurse on the rehab floor. Her unit manager has been eager to adopt evidence-based recommendations related to family-centered care on the unit.
 
  Marie's response has been that she rarely has time to provide care to patients, let alone families, and that there is no good reason to do anything different than what she is already doing. An approach that may gain Marie's support of the idea is to: a. Invite Marie to review the studies for her-self.
  b. Suggest that she does not need to provide family-centered care.
  c. Avoid discussion of the idea with her until she initiates it.
  d. Secure the support of her closest col-leagues on the unit.

Question 2

As a nurse manager representative on a clinical information system selection team, you would be particularly concerned if the favored system:
 
  a. Involves screen displays that are best con-figured for non-clinical users.
  b. Requires an upgrade to servers in the fa-cility.
  c. Requires staff orientation and training during implementation of the software.
  d. Minimizes the amount of data entry ne-cessary.

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Answer to Question 1

D
As a skeptic, Marie, who is a late majority adopter, needs pressure from colleagues to move her towards support of the recommendations. The translation of research into practice requires that nurse leaders and managers understand group dynamics, individual responses to innovation and change (such as the response of late majority adopters), and the culture of their healthcare or-ganization.

Answer to Question 2

A
An ideal hospital information system should include as much instrumentation as possible to mi-nimize data entry. As a clinical end user, you would expect orientation and training on how the screen display can be configured so as to suit the purposes and preferences of users in clinical areas.