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BSN 4012 Leadership and organizational management in nursing
Response Plans Through effective nursing leadership change becomes vital in improving the healthcare environment, as well as benefiting the staff and most importantly the patients. Implementing change can be extremely challenging, so nurse leaders utilize change theories to be more successful.
Lewin’s Change Theory provides a framework for implementing change using three stages; unfreezing, moving and refreezing. Following Lewin’s Change Theory, nurse leaders are able to assess problems, implement changes and evaluate the expected outcome (Mitchell, 2013).
Response Plan for Scenario One: Inpatient nephrology unit Change Theory Nurse leaders are always faced with making changes on their unit which can be very challenging. The first stage of Lewin’s Change Theory is the unfreezing stage or assessing the situation to determine if there is a problem. On the inpatient nephrology unit the new nurse leader is faced with the challenge of staff not following orders, which becomes a negative force or a restraining factor on the unit.
Factors that contributed to the assessment of the issue were from data of uncollected daily weights and intake/output records and information supplied by physicians. The second stage is the moving stage or when the change is implemented.
During this stage the nursing leader collaborates with nursing staff to determine concerns, such as increased work load and lack of staff commitment, which is affecting the lack of documentation on the unit. The nursing leader will implement a change of plan by delegating the night shift to do daily weights at 6am after voiding and before their first meal. In addition, all nurses will be….
RESPONSE PLANS 3 in-serviced on using a bed scale to avoid inaccuracy. All shifts will be held responsible to document intake/output; therefore all nurses and aides will be in-serviced on documenting I & O’s and informed about the importance of documentation for the safety and wellness of the patients.
During the last stage, which is the refreezing stage the nurse will evaluate the accuracy of documentation, determine areas of concern, continue to collaborate with staff and make the change permanent (Mitchell, 2013).
Strategies & Rationale Although the nurse leader needs to collaborate with staff and address concerns regarding each shift, an transactional role would be most successful on the unit for implementing a change of plan.
The nurse leader will take on a role of supervision and promote compliance by focusing on the documentation records and groups performance. The transacti………..BSN 4012 Leadership and organizational management in nursing
In today’s healthcare nursing, roles and priorities have shifted to providing high-quality care at a lower cost by hospitals. Our healthcare system is going in a direction where the individual or the patient is going to be held accountable for their health.
The transformation will mean that our healthcare system will go from an illness system to a preventative and wellness system and a system that manages their individual’s chronic illness. Our healthcare providers will need to transform into a system that is different from what our system is now. Hospitals are already being paid from patient satisfaction scores.
When the outcomes of patients are poor, reimbursement for the hospital is affected. The future for successful hospitals will be to operate at high-quality, effective care by creating a culture of a valued base system. After brainstorming, several nursing priorities came to mind.
These are the three that are important and relevant to our unit in perioperative services. Nursing Priorities One of the most important priorities is cultivating nursing attitudes when change is taking place.
For a nursing leader to be successful in implementing change, the attitudes of the nursing unit must be cultivated and in line with the direction the organization is going. 1) Cultivating an attitude in nursing that is on track with where the organization is going.
According to (Taylor, 2014) to have success when implementing change in the perioperative environment one must have a positive attitude and same perception as the organization of the hospital. The leader must know how to respond to the crisis, adjusting roles, shifts and habits of nurses to make the perioperative area successful.
The successful leader knows that the department has a responsibility in making the department successful if the leader wants to
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IDENTIFY NURSING LEADERSHIP PRIORITIES 3 achieve a high-performance perioperative department. The second priority that is essential to the success of the hospital is increasing patient satisfaction survey scores. It is imperative that the hospitals satisfaction scores are satisfactory.
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IDENTIFY NURSING LEADERSHIP PRIORITIES 3 achieve a high-performance perioperative department. The second priority that is essential to the success of the hospital is increasing patient satisfaction survey scores. It is imperative that the hospitals satisfaction scores are satisfactory.
Unfortunately, the standards of the patient are very high, and there is not much room for low satisfactory scores of the patients. 2) Increasing patient satisfaction survey scores in the perioperative unit by enhancing nursing performance and position in healthcare. According to (Anderson, 2011) the affordable care act implemented new regulations for hospital reimbursement. Hospitals are no longer paid by volume; they are paid by value.
Nursing management and leaders have a very important management skill, and that is to accomplish giving an improved quality standard of care while providing saf
