The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2008)
says nurses ‘must deliver care based on the best
available evidence or best practice’, which suggests
there is a continual need to update, or make changes
to, practice. However, implementing change is more
challenging than it is sometimes perceived. Szabla
(2007), for example, estimates that two thirds of
organisational change projects fail, while Burnes
(2004a) suggests that the figure is even higher