title: Coping with change.
abstract: The human brain is geared to detecting change, yet we often fear change. This may be because fear of change and a failure to cope with the change come from feeling that the origins of change are out of our control. Rather than coping with change, nurses should be effecting change in order to ensure the best patient care and their own professional autonomy. Below, the author takes an inward look at how institutions and traditional practices perpetuate these feelings and at the remedies.
authors.affiliation: Mid-Downs Health Authority (Forest Hospital Mental Handicap Services) Horsham, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Conboy-Hill
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D009729:Nursing; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D012922:Social Change; D012941:Social Responsibility