One Home Care Agency Is Being Bought by a Competing

Multiple Choice

One home care agency is being bought by a competing company that has a different type of patient assignment system for nurses. The director of the agency being purchased decides to share the new assignment system with the staff. The director encourages the staff to consider trying it now and compiling some feedback about how it works before the acquisition occurs. What is the rationale for the director's actions?

A) It is better to choose to change and design one's own approach to change than to have a change imposed by some external force.
B) The new company will most likely force the staff nurses to adopt this care delivery system on the first day after the merger.
C) Change should be quick so there is not enough time to complain about potential ramifications.
D) Change theory indicates the most beneficial changes are made spontaneously by only a few of the people who will be a part of the change process.