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Steps to Gaining Buy-in and Leading Change and Transformation (Kotter, 2007).
See Making Change Happen (p.11):

1. Establish sense of urgency.

• Motivating statement (often communicated to key school administrative decision maker(s)):

Dear Mr./Ms. Administrator,

I know that you aspire to having the most competent and highly effective
personnel working in your district. I am proposing helping our district develop
an evaluation tool that promotes New Jersey best practices for highly effective
school nurses, and has as its foundation the newly updated School Nursing:
Scope and Standards of Practice. Research demonstrates that a meaningful
evaluation helps school nurses to more closely examine their own practice,
take responsibility for individual growth, and enhances motivation to strive for
a higher level of performance (McDaniel, Overman, Guttu, & Engelke, 2013). I
know this is an initiative that cannot be done in isolation as the process also
involves a review of the school nurse job description. I have begun examining
other state school nurse evaluations, as well as templates from several local
New Jersey school districts. I would like to assemble a team of individuals that
includes school nurses, administrators, school physician, parents, and other
interested school partners to examine our job description and school nurse
evaluation with the goal of creating a uniform job description and school
nurse evaluation that may serve not only as an evaluation tool in our district,
but one that is useful throughout New Jersey. I am ready to start today.

• Examine the literature and community assessment: In addition, the following areas related to
this are:

School Community Health Problem/Needs Assessment:
• Obtain district and school-based job description(s) and evaluation(s). Benchmark
current evaluation with updated Framework for 21st Century School Nursing Practice™
and School Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice.
• Identify available resources that may already have templates, guides, and resources.

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