Change & a Nursing Faculty

This research examines and assesses the implementation of a change applicable to the nursing faculty within a university organization. The goal of the implemented change was to provide greater empowerment to the nursing faculty. The components of the organizational change dealt with role conflict, performance evaluation, and professional autonomy. Prevailing conditions related to each of these issues were impinging upon the prerogatives of the nursing faculty to fulfill their responsibilities and to exercise their authority.

Examination and Assessment of the Implemented Change

The change implementation is examined and assessed within the contexts of problem area, nature of the change implemented, and effectiveness of the change in relation to increased empowerment for the nursing faculty. The findings of the examination and assessment are presented separately with respect to problem arearole conflict, performance evaluation, and professional autonomy.

The relationship between role conflict and empowerment is examined and assessed in this section. The findings are discussed in the contexts of problem area, nature of the change implemented, and effectiveness of the change in relation to increased empowerment for the nursing faculty.

Problem area. Nursing faculty, more so than members of most other disciplines within the university

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The effectiveness of the implemented change in relation to increased empowerment for the nursing faculty. Providing the nursing faculty with a stronger voice in the development of the posttenure evaluation process for members of the nursing faculty has strengthened the level of academic freedom extant within the nursing faculty. In turn, the strengthening of academic freedom has provided the nursing faculty with greater empowerment. Professional Autonomy The relationship between professional autonomy and empowerment is examined and assessed in this section. The findings are discussed in the contexts of problem area, nature of the change implemented, and effectiveness of the change in relation to increased empowerment for the nursing faculty. Problem area. Professional autonomy for nursing faculty is, in many ways, closely associated, with professional autonomy for the nursing profession (Grams and Christ, 1992, pp. 96104). In this context, the professional nurse contends with longstanding challenges to the profession's prerogatives from physicians, and with relatively recent challenges involving hospital administrators (Scherer, 1988, pp. 3440). The issue of who should control nursing is rooted in an age old
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Approximate Word count = 3306
Approximate Pages = 13 (250 words per page)

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