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The paper relates that both articles address the implementation of change and innovation in nursing practice with particular reference to leadership factors. The writer relates that he selected these articles for reflection not only because they deal with nursing leaders as innovators and change agents, but in particular because of the deep realism that informs both works. The writer asserts that while innovation and change are of critical importance to nursing practice, I believe strongly that these must be tempered with realism - the recognition of real-world time constraints and other pressures upon nursing leaders and staff - in order to be implemented successfully. The paper contends that these articles are exemplary models of the application of realism to the analysis of innovative nursing practice.

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"The two articles to be explored here - Morjikian, Kimball, and Joynt's "Leading change: The nurse executive's role in implementing new care delivery models" and Reineck's "Models of change" - both address the implementation of change and innovative in nursing practice with particular reference to leadership factors. I selected these articles for reflection not only because they deal with nursing leaders as innovator and change agents, but in particular because of the deep realism that informs both works. While innovation and change are of critical importance..."

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