title: Communication: essential strategies for success.
abstract: This department highlights change management strategies that may be successful in strategically planning and executing organizational change initiatives. With the goal of presenting practical approaches helpful to nurse leaders advance organizational change, content includes evidence-based projects, tool, and resources that mobilize and sustain organizational change initiatives. In this article, the author discusses strategies for communication for change processes, whether large or small. Intentional planning and development of a communication strategy alongside, not as an afterthought, to change initiatives are essential.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Notre Dame of Maryland University Baltimore, Maryland 21210, USA. moconnor@ndm.edu
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: O'Connor
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States