title: Rogers' adoption model in the implementation of change.
abstract: In this era of marketplace competition and cost containment, the most efficient methods of implementing change must be utilized. Rogers' adoption of innovation theory (1972; 1983) provides a framework to identify human responses to innovation/change. The model's six categories exemplify varying degrees of acceptance or rejection behaviors. In the current paper employee responses to the implementation of a new computer system in a larger hospital in the upper midwest with implications for clinical nurse specialists will be discussed.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bushy
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kamphuis
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D009936:Organizational Innovation