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Question: Challenges and barriers to implementing changes are anticipated outcomes within any healthcare system. These challenges will occur, particularly as a system or practice is established (Phillips & Klein, 2023). For changes to be effective in healthcare settings, they would require the assistance and active involvement of stakeholders, clinicians, and administrative personnel within the organization. It remains imperative that, as nurse leaders, we must be knowledgeable about monitoring, anticipating, and implementing effective strategic methods to safely and effectively address any gaps in implementing necessary changes. Get Your Assignments Done Now!
Hence, for my practicum project, I expect the challenges and barriers to implementing the changes in how the inpatient and homecare discharge processes are currently managed among the homecare patient population. Another critical gap is the noted need for more appropriate knowledge and skills of clinicians providing care for this identified patient population. Upon evaluation and dissemination of the plans to create and implement a best practice method, such as a Clinical practice guideline (CPG) to address the noted gap, there were noted stakeholder biases as concerns were verbalized among the clinicians regarding additional tasks being added to their numerous daily patient care tasks responsibilities (Maurer et al., 2022).
Nevertheless, to address this barrier and ensure compliance and buy-in from all stakeholders, I plan to modify the CPC to ensure the most pertinent information is outlined with checkboxes/checklist format (Maurer et al., 2022). Secondly, there would be ongoing education regarding the purpose of the CPG and its intended impact on safe and high-quality patient care. Finally, as the change agent and leader, I will include the internal nursing team and field supervisors to assist with the implementation phase. The identified strategies will be evaluated for effectiveness, and modifications will be made until at least 90% participate in the changes.