Planned Change in a Department or Unit

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Assignment: Application: Planned Change
in a Department or Unit

Health care organizations are continuously immersed in change from the emergence of new policies, to promote quality care and improve patient safety to keeping pace with the rapid growth in knowledge and best practices. Establishing a solid framework for planning and implementing change is a wise move, as it provides a foundation for the extensive coordination that will be needed to successfully facilitate the change.

For this Assignment, you propose a change at the department or unit level and develop a plan for guiding the change effort.

To prepare:

* Review Chapter 8 in the course text. Focus on Kurt Lewin’s change theory, and contrast it with other classic change models and strategies.
* Reflect on problems, inefficiencies, and critical issues within a specific department, unit, or area in your organization or one with which you are familiar. Select one issue as a focal point for this assignment, and consider a change that could be made to address the issue.
* Think about how the change would align with the organization’s mission, vision, and values as well as relevant professional standards.
* Using one of the change models or strategies discussed in Chapter 8, begin formulating a plan for implementing the change within the department/unit. Outline the steps that you and/or others should follow to facilitate the change effort. Align these steps to the change model or strategy you selected.
* Determine who should be involved in initiating and managing the change. Consider the skills and characteristics that are necessary to facilitate this change effort.

To complete:

Write a 3- to 5-page paper (page count does not include title and reference page) that addresses the following:

* Identify a problem, inefficiency, or issue within a specific department/unit.
* Describe a specific, realistic change that could be made to address the issue.
* Summarize how the change would align with the organization’s mission, vision, and values as well as relevant professional standards.
* Identify a change model or strategy to guide your planning for implementing the change. Provide a rationale for your selection.
* Outline the steps that you and/or others would follow to facilitate the change. Align these steps to your selected change model or strategy.
* Explain who would be involved in initiating and managing this change. Describe the skills and characteristics that would be necessary to facilitate the change effort.

Reminder: The School of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a title page, introduction, summary, and references. The Sample Paper provided at the Walden Writing Center<http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/templates> provides an example of those required elements. All papers submitted must use this formatting.

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Running head: PLANNED CHANGE

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PLANNED CHANGE
PLANNED CHANGE
Introduction
There are several theories in modern day management that for instigating planned change
in specific departments in different organizations. Planned change refers to decisions made in
advance to decipher what to do by choosing from various alternatives. All the theories on planned
change implementation often insist on flexibility as an essential requirement. Having a flexible
guide for planned change is imperious. This paper will focus on creating awareness of the current
staffing needs of different modern organizations and emphasizing the importance of staff retention
through the use of Ronald Lippitt's change theory.
Staffing Problem in Nursing
Problems concerning safe staffing are common in the current nursing unit as managers
strive to create or design dynamic and innovative solutions for staffing. The nursing unit at Kaiser
Permanente in California is experiencing serious shortages in staffing. The matrix of staffing being
used in this facility is the fixed model where a pre-existing trend or formula determines the number
of nurses mandated with caring for patients. The nursing unit is not often fully staffed. Kaiser
Permanente, therefore, tends to outsource nurses from different agencies to lessen the workload of
the existing nursing team. However, there is always a reduced performance since the outsourced
nurses are not used to the system the way the core nurses are, and they have received less training
as compared to the other core nurses in the unit.
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