Nursing Curriculum for Supporting Change
Students will explore ways to influence and create change for the promotion of societal health. They will examine the culture, power, and politics of leadership and organizations. Students will critique selected strategies for enhancing professional influence on the evolving Canadian health care system.
Students will engage in a variety of learning activities to examine change at the micro, meso, and macro levels of society. They will have a variety of opportunities to view themselves as health professionals who have the mandate, knowledge, and skills to bring about change. Educational processes will include lecture-discussion, independent study, individual and/or group work in the use of change theories, and active participation in critiquing case studies, media stories as well as reflecting and debating issues related to change in the community and the profession.
The Change Process & Lewin
Planned Change & Theories
Adaptation & Theories
Context of Societal Change
Impact of Nursing Image
Health Care Reform
Health Policy Change
Political Action Strategies
Nurses as Change Agents
Lobbying & Coalitions
Media as Change Medium
Innovation & Advocacy