Staying afloat: surviving curriculum change.
In response to calls for nursing education reform, a content-based curriculum was changed to a concept-based curriculum, using Kanter's 7 skills for effective change model. The skills include tuning in to the environment, challenging the prevailing organizational wisdom, communicating a compelling aspiration, building coalitions, transferring ownership to a working team, learning to persevere, and making everyone a hero. The authors describe the steps taken to successfully accomplish this arduous task.
Brady
Debra
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College of Nursing, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA. dbrady@salud.unm.edu
Welborn-Brown
Pauline
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Smith
Debra
D
Giddens
Jean
J
Harris
Judith
J
Wright
Mary
M
Nichols
Ruth
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