Summary
Contents
Subject index
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.
Power: Fuel for Your Engine
Power: Fuel for Your Engine
Box 3.1: Looking Ahead
Chapter 3: Power: Fuel for Your Engine
Ways to View Power
Power in Planned Change Theories
Power for Nurse Planners
Box 3.2: Key Words and Phrases
- ___ Collaboration
- ___ Power as compliance
- ___ Destructive power
- ___ Power-coercive strategies
- ___ Doctor-nurse game
- ___ Power field
- ___ Economic power
- ___ Power trap
- ___ Force field
- ___ Sacrifice trap
- ___ Integrative power
- ___ Space allocation
- ___ Levers of nurse power
- ___ Threat power
- ___ Power as ability
If nurse planners wish to achieve success, they must think of social power as an integral component of planned change. Gilbert (1995) reproved those who write or speak about empowerment without first defining power. This chapter first defines power before it tells how planned change theories view power. It then discusses power in the context of planned change in ...
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