Managing Resistance to Change
This paper should be scholarly and formatted and cited as per the APA Manual 7th edition
• The text of the paper should be 3 full pages, not counting the title page or reference list
o If the paper is not 2 full pages, I will not grade it
• The paper must include a title page and reference list
• Do not use headings in the paper; this does not count the title on the second page
• At least 6 different scholarly references must be used
o References in text must match references in reference list
• Imagine that you are a nurse leader at Memorial Hospital. You must implement a new policy and
procedure that the staff nurses perceive to be unneeded and more difficult than what they are
currently doing. Write your paper focused on your approach to successfully facilitating change
when your staff is resistant to it.
• You must justify your points using scholarly literature. This will require reading and research.
o It is okay to use the word “I” in the paper, but the paper should be focused mostly on
scholarly literature.
• The course grading criteria will be used and will be based on the paper being:
o Written according to instructions
o Timely in regard to submission (5 points will be deducted for each day the paper is late)
o Clear in regard to the focus outlined above
o Scholarly in content, wording, and punctuation
o Well organized
o Representative of clearly identifiable and coherent points
-Constructed with good flow
Part of good flow is having short introduction and conclusion sections; one
paragraph each
o Substantive in terms of appropriate content
o Based on scholarly references
§ Do not use Wiki’s
§ Do not use dictionaries
§ Do not use blogs
§ Do not use article abstracts
§ Do not use school webpages, i.e., for example, a school of nursing website
§ Do not use sites, such as Nurse.Com, that are not peer-reviewed or developed and
maintained by well-known, reputable organizations, such as the ANA
• Continually keep the working and final copies of your paper backed up. Loss of computer files will
not be an acceptable excuse for a late or incomplete paper.
