Describe the nurse leader’s role in implementing change and the call to action.

Learning Objectives

1. Explain why nurses have the opportunity to be change agents.

2. Identify how different theorists explain change.

3. Discuss how the nursing process is similar to the change process.

4. Discuss the medicine wheel as a change model.

5. Describe the nurse leader’s role in implementing change and the call to action.

6. Differentiate among change strategies.

7. Recognize how to handle resistance to change.