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This ground-breaking book is designed to enable nurses to understand the process of planned change. It presents overviews of three widely accepted change theories as well as a new systems-orientated planned change theory, and shows the implications of the theories for nursing practice.
Planned Change Theories: Choose Well, Use Well
Planned Change Theories: Choose Well, Use Well
Box 2.1: Looking Ahead
Chapter 2: Planned Change Theories:
Choose Well, Use Well
What Is a Theory?
What Is a Model?
Change Theories
Planned Change Theories: Choose Well
Planned Change Theories: Use Well
Theory Combinations?
Characteristics of Specific Planned Change Theories
Combinations of Planned Change Theories and Models
Box 2.2: Key Words and Phrases
- ___ Abstraction
- ___ Espoused theory
- ___ Classical theories of change
- ___ Generalization
- ___ Level of generality
- ___ Constructivism
- ___ Macrotheory
- ___ Dialectics
- ___ Metatheory
- ___ Diffusion
- ___ Microtheory
- ___ Diffusion theories
- ___ Model
- ___ Engineering theory
- ___ Theory-in-use
People have not always accepted the idea that planned change deserves formal study as a feasible, worthy, and essential activity. Early Calvinists, for example, saw societal order as preordained and nonchanging. Under this viewpoint, planned change cannot occur. Later, rationalist thinking claimed that people who have ...
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