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Change Champions and Opinion Leaders
Change champions are knowledgeable individuals who influence change decisions in the direction the change agency deems desirable (Rogers, 2003). Conversely, opinion leaders are individuals who can informally influence peoples attitudes towards change (Rogers, 2003). Both change champions and opinion leaders are crucial for ensuring that people adopt innovations (Hickey & Giardino, 2021). This assignment identifies the change champions and opinion leaders in the proposed project problem that seeks to reduce medication errors in the practice setting.
Differences between Opinion Leaders and Change Agents
Rogers (2003) diffusion curve concept provides an invaluable means to illustrate the difference between opinion leaders and change champions. The curves represent the real-life rate of hybrid corn seed adoption by farmers in two Iowa communities. The seeds were first introduced and adopted by the earliest adopters in 1927, while the last group of farmers adopted the same fifteen years later in 1941 (Rogers, 2003). When the hybrid seeds were first introduced, the government sent a group of agronomists from Iowa universities to help early adopter farmers understand the new technology and its potential benefits (Rogers, 2003). Years later, when the farmers had experienced success, they shared their experiences on the technologys benefits with other farmers. Consequently, adoption spread to all farmers in the two communities (Rogers, 2003).
From the example, the agronomists sent from various universities to educate the farmers were the change champions (Rogers, 2003). The authors reckon that few early adopters would have adopted the change in the absence of the agronomists (Rogers, 2003). From this real-life...…will undergo training to increase their knowledge on medication errors so that they can respond adequately to debate and challenges, and thus win the confidence of their fellow nursing colleagues (Locock et al., 2001).
Peer opinion leaders, on the other hand, would be influential and popular staff among the clinical staff. These will be people who can relate problems to their own professional lives and give the rest of the staff the confidence that they too could do it (Locock et al., 2001). The peer opinion leader enjoys the support of their colleagues not because of their formal position, but by virtue of trust (Locock et al., 2001). The peer opinion leaders would be nominated by the staff by simply asking them who they would go to if they needed to talk to someone.
In summary,…
References
Hickey, J. V., & Giardino, E. R. (Eds.). (2021). Evaluation of quality in health care for DNPs (3rd ed.). Springer Publishing.
Rogers, E. M. (2003). Diffusion of innovations (5th ed.). Simon & Schuster
Locock, L., Dopson, S., Chambers, D., & Gabbay, J. (2001). Understanding the role of opinion leaders in improving clinical effectiveness. Social Science and Medicine, 53(2001), 745-57.
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