Exercises
1. How do you normally respond to change in your personal life? How did you respond to your first clinical situation?
2. Identify the leadership skills that a nurse leader must apply when implementing change.
3. Identify a change occurring in your workplace. Using one of the change theories presented in this chapter, analyze how well the change process is working.
4. What are some of the contributing factors to the failure of change projects?
5. Reflect on how you as a follower can be a positive asset to a change process.
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