title: Embracing change.
abstract: This article challenges the way nurses have thought about the business of nursing practice and education, while exposing emerging innovations that are calling nurses to action. Several quality measurement programs and the Affordable Care Act are discussed in relation to changes in nursing practice that will be required to meet the challenges of an evolving health care system. Using a change theory as the framework to guide both transformational and incremental planned change will increase the chance of success. Selected change theories are considered and one theory is used to illustrate usefulness in facilitating change in nursing practice.
authors: School of Nursing, Austin Peay State University, 601 College Street, Clarksville, TN 37040, USA.
authors: Patty
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authors: Orr
authors: School of Nursing, Austin Peay State University, 601 College Street, Clarksville, TN 37040, USA. Electronic address: davenportd@apsu.edu.
authors: Doris
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authors: Davenport
mesh_terms: D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D016294:Models, Nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D014481:United States
keywords: Affordable care act; Care coordination; Change; Change theory; Employment; Healthcare outcomes; Hospital readmissions; Institute of Medicine