NR 554 Nurse Leader And Healthcare Policy Homework Help
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NR 554 Week 2 DQ (with Peer Response): Leading Change
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NR 554 Week 2 DQ (with Peer Response): Leading Change
Consider an educational or healthcare organization with which you are familiar. Analyze the organization with respect to its attitude toward change. Identify a healthcare policy that … adopted by this organization and determine the change mod...
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Leading Change
Chamberlain College of Nursing
NR 554: Nurse Leader and Healthcare Policy
March 2018
, LEADING CHANGE 2
Consider an educational or healthcare organization with which you are familiar.
Analyze the organization with respect to its attitude toward change. Identify a
healthcare policy that has been adopted by this organization and determine the
change model used throughout the change process (if any). Include the history of
the change in terms of how the issue was identified, who the stakeholders were,
and how the implementation and evaluation were
received.
Leading Change
As the healthcare system is rapidly changing, healthcare organizations must change with
it. Changes to organizational policies will occur within the clinical setting as it adapts to sustain
evidence-based practices. One major role of the nursing profession is functioning as a change
agent. Nurses must continue to look for ways to impact change within the healthcare system. At
the Cleveland Clinic, the Stanley Shalom Zielony Institute for Nursing Excellence encourages
nurses to have an essential role in implementing evidence-based practices (EBP) that contribute
to positive patient outcomes. Frontline nurses across the Cleveland Clinic healthcare system are
encouraged to become change agents by getting involved in decision-making, thus joining unit-
based shared governance councils and unit-based practice councils. An evidence-based
intervention that was implemented as a hospital policy and introduced by shared governance to
be performed by nurses and other caregivers is purposeful rounding. Purposeful rounding
consists of hourly visits to patients throughout the day. It engages the patient, family, and nurse
and enhances communication between the patient, family, and staff.
The change model used to implement this policy is Kurt Lewin’s Change Theory Model.
Lewin change theory model is based on a 3-step process (Unfreeze-Change/Movement-Refreeze)
that provides a high-level approach to change (Shirey, 2013). According to Lewin’s theory, the
first stage of unfreezing involves the change agent recognizing a problem, identifying the need
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