Making Change Stick

While change is inevitable in most organizations, there is a difference between change that is superficial and embedded sustaining change. Drawing from this week’s lecture and readings, discuss the processes for successfully implementing and sustaining change. Provide examples that are designed to help make change stick and apply at least one of the examples to…

Skillful Communication

There are specific qualities required to successfully communicate change initiatives within an organization. Drawing from this week’s lecture and readings, discuss some of the most important leadership skills required to develop employee ownership and acceptance of change initiatives within an organization. Guided Response: Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts. Compare their choice…

Restructuring

Imagine that you are the liaison between the decision makers and the followers and that your role is to communicate potential personnel change initiatives. Using the communication strategies found in the text, what actions will you take to format the conversation with employees regarding the restructuring process? Guided Response: Assume the role of the employee…

Change Implementation

Organizations face substantial change on a regular basis. Technology, outsourcing, and restructuring through downsizing or rightsizing are some of the key reasons for change. Assume you are receiving news that you are the point person within your department/division for one of the change factors listed above. What are the barriers you must address that could…

Driving the Change

There are common change processes that face most organizations. Some of the changes affect the processes of doing business and some of the changes affect the people within the organization. Drawing from this week’s lecture and readings, choose one of the common change initiatives and define the issues that might emerge at the “front line”…

Change Stories

In a three- to four- page paper (excluding the title and reference pages), reflect on an important professional change that you have experienced. Compare your change story to one of the stories from the beginning of Chapter 1 of the text. Answer the following questions and support your thoughts with at least two scholarly sources….

the ethical problems raised by the Jahi McMath case

“Describe the ethical problems raised by the Jahi McMath case. Take a position. what was the right answer? Defend your position.” “be very specific and straight forward”.3 or more sources. Use proper form citing sources in the text of the paper and endnotes (Bibliography)” as described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association….

Quality Improvement Email

The leader of a local health care organization, Cindy Janowski, has noticed leading organizations successfully implement Quality Improvement plans. Cindy wants to ensure her organization keeps current with those organizations’ quality standards. She has hired you to research the industry’s quality standards and to learn how to improve quality in her organization.   Cindy sent…

Identify a Change Project

This week introduced the concepts of leadership and leadership theories. In addition, the media presentation and textbook readings discussed the difference between leadership and management. As you begin your practicum this week discuss with your manager possible change projects that focus on a quality and safety issue that are needed in the agency. Observe your…

use of patient-care technologies, communication systems

Write 3–4 pages describing the effective use of patient-care technologies, communication systems, and information systems across the care continuum of a health care system of your choice. Add a one-page executive summary your organization could use to disseminate these ideas. Because a lack of knowledge when using technology can lead to errors in patient care,…