title: Project possibility: a model of care and the politics of change.
abstract: As a strategy to counter the current crisis of recruitment and retention in nursing a new model of care designed to introduce the second and third level of nurse into what was previously an almost exclusively registered nurse workforce, has been implemented in collaboration with clinicians, educators and managers, at a leading private hospital. This paper articulates the salientfeatures of the model, key processes involved in the model's introduction to the staff and explores the complex politics surrounding its implementation and ongoing evaluation.
authors.affiliation: St Vincent's Private Hospital, Honorary Senior Research Fellow Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales.
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003142:Communication; D016304:Hospitals, Private / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000600:supply & distribution; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010559:Personnel Management; D010865:Pilot Projects; D000078329:Workforce