Leaders seek out change opportunities regularly. Innovation, critical thinking, and decision making are key to making an impact on an organization.
Step 1: Select a topic for a change project.
• Key Element: Review the following resources for potential change topic or process ideas:
o Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Transforming Care at the Bedside
o Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Hospital Inpatient Waste Identification Tool
o For process change resources: TeamSTEPPS® Pocket Guide
Step 2: Identify the context for your change.
• Key Element: Describe the setting where the change will take place. For example, clinical unit, insurance, home health, or public and community.
• Key Element: Explain who is affected: patients, nurses, leadership, and other stakeholders in the organization.
Step 3: Review the literature to find possible solutions and evidence to address your topic.
• Research sources that guide evidence-based practice to improve outcomes related to your selected topic.
• Key Element: Find a minimum of three (3) peer-reviewed articles directly related to addressing your change topic.
Step 4: Create a draft implementation plan.
• Key Element: Summarize each article to explain how the evidence you gathered will help address your change topic.
• Key Element: Explain how you could use the information in the research to carry out the change in your identified setting.
• Key Element: The paper links theory to relevant examples and uses the vocabulary of the theory correctly. Comments: