Marie is a long-term staff nurse on the rehab floor.Her unit manager has been eager to adopt evidence-based recommendations related to family-centered care on the unit.Marie's response has been that she rarely has time to provide care to patients,let alone families,and that there is no good reason to do anything different than what she is already doing.An approach that may gain Marie's support of the idea is to:

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As a skeptic,Marie,who is a late majority adopter,needs pressure from colleagues to move her toward support of the recommendations.The translation of research into practice requires that nurse leaders and managers understand group dynamics,individual responses to innovation and change (such as the response of late majority adopters),and the culture of their healthcare organization.

Marie Is a Long-Term Staff Nurse on the Rehab Floor