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Types of Stories to Influence Clinical Nurses
Abstract:
Stories are exceedingly powerful in influencing nurses to consider changing certain behaviors or how they deliver various kinds of patient care. Following last month's excellent example of a story to influence adoption of family-centered care in the neonatal intensive care unit, let's consider the various types of stories that can be told when attempting to influence clinical nurses. In future columns, methods for collecting stories to use in education and important factors in the presentation or telling of stories will be considered. [.
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