title: A risky business.
abstract: Just when you get comfortable with life--you've got everything under control and you know what you're doing--along comes someone with a new idea with a change attached to it. From the European Courts, through the Government to the Trust Executive and then the Directorates, change seems to be a constant part of life. Julie Sprague is a theatre nurse who saw an opportunity to make a worthwhile change in her area of practice. This is the acceptable face of change, at clinical practice level, done with involvement and co-operation of colleagues. This article describes that change process together with the theories and rationale which support it.
authors.affiliation: Walsall NHS Trust Hospital.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sprague
mesh_terms: D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D009746:Nursing, Team; D013527:Perioperative Nursing; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012308:Risk Management; D006113:United Kingdom