Resistance to change in nursing

Resistance to Change in Nursing Name Institutional Affiliation Resistance to Change in Nursing Adaptation to change can be a challenge to people in any profession. Change can be instigated by various factors in the health care system. Additionally, change occurs at different levels. Fundamentally, change is meant to improve healthcare provision, as well as improving the working conditions. Despite this, nurses present resistance to change as they find it difficult to transit from the old to the new way of doing things in the workplace (Agrwal, Berlin, & Grote, 2012). The substitution of old and comfortable approaches of service delivery to new ones that are unfamiliar to the caregivers makes them feel insecure and is often personally exhausting. Suggestively, this is why the response to change can be very emotional to some nurses. New programs and technologies make the nurses feel like novices in their work environment triggering resistance. The success of change implementation is determined by the strategies and guidelines that are laid out by lea...