Strategies to Facilitate Organizational Readiness
Having strategies to facilitate organization readiness is crucial in achieving successful change. Given the results from the readiness assessment, there are various strategies that can enhance an organization’s readiness to change. One of the strategies is to involve stakeholders before participating in any change initiative. Stakeholders can either be internal or external, with their involvement being critical in the success of a change initiative. Without proper engagement, the chances of facing resistance are likely to increase leading to failure of the change initiative (Butt et al., 2016).
Another strategy is to have a systematic approach to change. This is where evidence-based change models like the PDCA cycle comes in (Liu et al., 2022). Using these models allows a smooth transition to change instead of an abrupt chaotic approach that will likely destabilize organizational processes.
Stakeholders and Team Members
Identification of stakeholders and project team members is an important aspect that allows efficient implementation of the change, including in crucial processes such as communication. My proposed change was to enhance health outcomes of community-dwelling obese African American adult patients by introducing a physical exercise program. As such, the stakeholders who will be involved in the project include, the patients and their families, who will be the main participants in the intervention, while their family members will play an encouraging role to ensure that the patients adhere to the prescribed intervention. Another stakeholder is the facility’s leadership who will be responsible for allocating resources that will be used in the evidence-based practice project proposal.
For the project team, the following will be involved; a team of nurses to help in the collection of data and communicating with the patients and other stakeholders when need be. The team will also have a dietician to advise the participants on the type of diet to take during the intervention for better outcomes. The team will also have a fitness expert to advise on the nature of exercise prescribed to the participants. Lastly, the team will have a nurse informaticist to help in data analysis since most of the data will be collected and relayed electronically to the facility’s portal.
Information and Communication Technologies Needed
One of the technologies that will be required in the evidence-based project is remote monitoring systems, where the participants will have a device that will monitor the amount of exercise engaged. Similarly, the participants will use their phones to relay the collected information back to the facility for analysis. The nurse informaticists will use the available data analysis systems within the facility to produce results that can be used for decision-making. The use of remote patient monitoring technology has transformed how nurses interact and deliver care.
Such technologies have enhanced communication, speed, and efficiency in care provision, allowing timely interventions to be prescribed to patients before they encounter adverse outcomes (Malasinghe et al., 2019). The remote technology will help to monitor adherence to the prescribed intervention which would have otherwise been done manually, which might have been impossible. Due to the mentioned advantage, the number of patients that can enroll in the intervention can be easily increased
Conclusion
The organization presents positive results in terms of readiness to change based on the PATH assessment tool. Ultimately having the right systems in place is still crucial to ensuring the success of the initiative. Leveraging on internal and external stakeholders can significantly improve the success of the initiative.