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One Year Later: Using Role Theory to Evaluate a New Delivery System
Author(s) -
MacLeod Joan A.,
Sella Suzanne
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
nursing forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.618
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1744-6198
pISSN - 0029-6473
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6198.1992.tb00908.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , institution , nursing , process (computing) , nursing practice , phase (matter) , psychology , medicine , computer science , sociology , social science , chemistry , organic chemistry , artificial intelligence , operating system
This is the second part of a two‐part article that presents findings from a staff nurse survey one year after the implementation of primary nursing on four medical and surgical pilot units in a tertiary teaching hospital. The introduction of primary nursing was one phase of a project to develop theory‐based nursing practice within the institution. The researchers hoped that obtaining the staff nurse perspective on the change to primary nursing would provide evaluative information and suggestions to provide additional support in the project. Role theory (Hardy, 1978) provides the theoretical framework for this study. While the previous article discussed issues related to the change process, this article focuses on evaluation of role transitions.