As a nurse, you can have a great impact on the success or failure of the adoption of E Hrs. It is important for nurses to understand their role as change agents and the ways  they can influence others when aIDressing the challenges of changing to a drastically different way of doing things.

Everett Rogers, a pioneer in the field of the diffusion of innovations, identified five qualities that determine individual attitudes towards adopting new technology (2003). He theorized that individuals are concerned with:

• Relative advantage: The individual adopting the new innovation must see how it will be an improvement over the old way of doing things.
• Compatibility with existing values and practices: The adopter must understand how the new innovation aligns with current practices.
• Simplicity: The adopter must believe he or she can easily master the new technology; the more difficult learning the new system appears, the greater the resistance that will occur.
• Trial ability: The adopter should have the opportunity to ‘play around’ with the new technology and explore its capabilities.
• Observable results: The adopter must have evidence that the proposed innovation has been successful in other situations.

Note: You are not required to purchase Rogers’ book or pursue further information regarding his list of five qualities. The information provided here is sufficient to complete this Assignment. The full reference for Rogers’ work is provided below the due date on this page.

For this Assignment, you assume the role of a nurse facilitator in a small hospital in upstate New York. You have been part of a team preparing for the implementation of a new electronic health records system. Decisions as to the program that will be used have been finalized, and you are now tasked with preparing the nurses for the new system. There has been an undercurrent of resistance expressed by nurses, and you must respond to their concerns. You have a meeting scheduled with the nurses 1 week prior to the training on the new EHR system. Consider how you can use the five qualities outlined by Rogers (2003) to assist in preparing the nurses for the upcoming implementation.

To prepare:

• Review the Learning Resources this week about successful implementations of E Hrs.
• Consider how you would present the new HER system to the nurses to win their approval.
• Reflect on the five qualities outlined by Rogers. How would aIDressing each of those areas improve the likelihood of success?

To complete:

Write a 3- to 5-page paper which includes the following:

• Using Rogers’ (2003) theory (Relative Advantage, Compatibility, Simplicity, Trialability, and Observable Results) as a foundation, outline how you would approach each area in the meeting with the nurses.. Be specific as to the types of information or activities you could provide to aIDress each area and include how you would respond to resistance. In order to get an excellent rating, you need to plan more than one activity. For instance creating a powerpoint and describing the information for each quality will meet the expectations yet not exceed them.
• Analyze the role of nurses as change agents in facilitating the adoption of new technology.
• Include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
• Use 3-4 course references and at least 1 outside credible reference

• APA format

Course references

• Rogers, E. M. (2003). Diffusion of innovations(5th ed.). New York, NY: Free Press.
• McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2012).Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge(Laureate Education, Inc., custom ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

o   Chapter 17, “The Electronic Health Record and Clinical Informatics”

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• Cresswell, K., & Sheikh, A. (2009). The NHS Care Record Service: Recommendations from the literature on successful implementation and adoption. Informatics in Primary Care, 17(3), 153–160.
• Fickenscher, K., & Bakerman, M. (2011). Change management in health care IT. Physician Executive, 37(2), 64–67.
• Gruber, N., Darragh, J., Puccia, P. H., Kadric, D. S., & Bruce, S. (2010). Embracing change to improve performance. Long-Term Living: For the Continuing Care Professional, 59(1), 28–31.
• Hyrkäs, K., & Harvey, K. (2010). Leading innovation and change. Journal of Nursing Management,18(1), 1–3.
• Mooney, B. L., & Boyle, A. M. (2011). 10 steps to successful EHR implementation. Medical Economics, 88(9), S4–6, S8–S11.