title: Championing change: lessons learned from one unit's struggle.
abstract: In an era that is primarily focused on cost reduction and outpatient facility development, justification for inpatient unit expansion projects is an issue that plagues most nurse managers. Championing Change encourages nursing leaders to develop business plans that highlights their endeavors. This concept was developed after witnessing first-hand a futile attempt to expand intermediate intensive care beds and telemetry monitoring capabilities on a neurology/neurosurgical unit. The experience of one unsuccessful quest of an expansion endeavor is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Danielle
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dagrosa
mesh_terms: D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009462:Neurology; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D010346:Patient Care Management / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013686:Telemetry / Q000191:economics / Q000451:nursing*